Francois van Niekerk
I am a South African Go player. I started playing Go in early 2009. I stay in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
I currently have a SAGA rank of 6k ( http://www.sagoclubs.co.za/player-ratings/)
I play on KGS ( rank graph), DGS (
profile), OGS (
profile) and IGS with the nick liquido.
You can contact me at flash.slash@gmail.com
Achievement History
Here follows my list of achievements in Go: (all rankings refer to my national SAGA ranking)
- 2009-05-21: Initialised at 14k
- 2009-08-06: Promoted to 13k
- 2009-11-07: Placed 9th in 4th Quarter Internet Tournament (1/1 wins) (
results)
- 2009-11-10: Placed tied 4th in 2009 Cape Town Blitz Tournament (
results)
- 2009-11-25: Promoted to 12k
- 2009-11-28: Placed 17th in the 2009 Joburg Open (2/4 wins) (no online results)
- 2009-12-08: Promoted to 11k
- 2010-01-28: Promoted to 10k
- 2010-02-06: Placed 9th in 1st Quarter Internet Tournament (3/3 wins) (
results)
- 2010-02-11: Promoted to 9k (
news post)
- 2010-04-17: Placed 11th in 2nd Quarter Internet Tournament (1/2 wins) (
results)
- 2010-04-17: Promoted to 8k
- 2010-05-15: Placed 8th in the 2010 Cape Town Open (1/3 wins) (
results)
- 2010-06-05: Placed 8th in the 2010 SA Candidates Day 1 (0/3 wins) (
results)
- 2010-07-31: Placed 10th in 3rd Quarter Internet Tournament (2/3 wins) (
results)
- 2010-07-31: Promoted to 7k
- 2010-09-29: Promoted to 6k
- 2010-10-09: Placed 4th in the 2010 Stellenbosch Open (1/3 wins) (
results)
Thoughts on Improvement
It is my strong belief that the best way to improve in Go, besides playing games, is to study problems. I try to maintain a daily diet of problems and play a few games a week. I also like reading books on Go and I do that if I have time. I prefer to work through problems without the solutions as I tend to look at the solutions too soon.
Subpages
- /BeginnerExerciseScript : Script to fetch beginner exercises