Peter Dijkema

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The main claim to fame to his name is not by his game, but by his publications. He started to write and edit GO, the Dutch magazine, early 1986. Soon he also contributed to Ranka and Go World, reporting on Dutch and European events. With Rob Kok he edited the book "2nd European Ing-Cup". In May 1988 he started GO MOON, which stopped in January 1994. From 1994 (Maastricht), he often (1994-6, 2004-5,7-9) edited bulletins at the European Go Congress. Starting May 2007, he contributed for a year to [ext] http://321go.org and he began to report European news to the AGA e-journal as well. A year later, he usually contributes a handful of articles every week, sometimes reporting on a dozen tournaments. Also he returned to extensive reporting for GO, like he did last century for almost a decade. In November 2009, he gave a boost to EuroGoTV by providing news and stories on almost a daily basis. He is VIP-subscriber to both the American Go Association e-Journal and DGoZ.

Peter Dijkema met the game at December 5 1966, when his younger brother got a set for present. Sadly, family competition petered out soon. As an academic student he recognized the power of the game, hence he would not risk serious play before he had collected all his three degrees in September 1982. His first European Go Congress was Porrentruy (CH, 1984). He played a minor, but decisive role in the choice of location - rainy Terschelling (NL) island - for 1985. However, his tournament play stopped after barely five years, at the brink of his sho-dan degree. Ever since, he has been taking part in all EGC's but 3. After a break of a decade devoted to journalism beyond go, he started to work on an honorary degree - preferably at least 1P - in go-journalism some time in the future. Perhaps he should aim at a Ph. D. at the Baduk Science Department of Myongji University in Korea.


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