Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter (richard<underscore>hunter at mac dot com)
British 4 dan now living in the UK.
Playing at both Bristol go club and
Bath go club.
Lived on the Isle of Man 2008-2009.
Lived in Tokyo 1980-2008.
Regular contributor to the British Go Journal from 1991 to 2006.
Four of my BGJ series have been reprinted as books by Slate and Shell.
Cross-cut Workshop: 2nd Ed: March 2008; 1st Ed: July 2001
Monkey Jump Workshop: May 2002
Counting Liberties and Winning Capturing Races: April 2003
Key Concepts in Life and Death -- Inside Moves and Under the Stones Techniques: July 2007
All these books contain the full BGJ articles plus additional material and problems.
Go Interests
I used to watch Go programs on Japanese TV and have a collection of DVD recordings (currently in storage). I used to browse through Second-hand bookshops in Tokyo? and have a large collection of second-hand Japanese go books.
I'm interested in encouraging people to read Japanese go books. Here's a page to help people who know no Japanese get started: Basic Japanese for Reading Go Books.
I play on KGS under the name nakade.
I have the GoGoD CD. I use a Macintosh computer and have an old Windows PC that I hardly ever use now.
Most of my old journal articles and books were written using Smart Go Board for Mac OS9. I have SmartGo on the Windows PC, but am waiting eagerly for the Macintosh version to come out.
In November 2003, I bought a digital video recorder (DVR), which incorporated a hard disk drive and a DVD burner. As a result, I copied the stack of videotapes on my shelf onto DVD. In the process, I watched many of the NHK Lectures again. I may write short summaries of them when I get around to it.
With the passage of time, it has become easier to enter Japanese here at SL using my default browser Safari. I shall be contributing some information about Japanese go. See EnteringJapaneseText.
SL looks like a wonderful forum. I hope I can make a useful contribution. I'm still fairly inexperienced here, so I welcome any help from experts. Please edit, reformat, fix links, etc. Thank you.
Charles Welcome (again)! The format may take a little getting used to, but I find the technology here very 'friendly', and I suppose I count by now as a power-user. More of a problem is navigating the site to find everything (if that's a good idea). I always point people to GuidedTours, which in a sense is 'heart of the matter'. The good paths here lead to much of the more worked-on material.
For myself, I have tended to post some things in more-or-less note form (such as unusual enclosures); and then work out the consequences over time, and as things come up. This makes it really the opposite of the print journalism approach, where you necessarily polish stuff up before publishing. Right now I have been building up the tenuki joseki (see tenuki joseki pages index). The cumulative feel only really kicked in when there were two dozen examples.
Some links for my benefit
HowDiagramsWork
EnteringJapaneseText
MacintoshGo
JapaneseGoColumnURLs
HowForumsWork
QuickQuestions