Ian Davis
Although I play a lot of Go on KGS, I also play at my local club sometimes.
I learnt to play at Durham University, gave up for a few years then took up the game on arriving in Cambridge, where I actually improved pretty dramatically. These days I pretty much just stagnate. history viewable here.
- American Sandan (3.38446) after US Open 2009
- Represented Ireland in Japan (WAGC) 2008.
- Shodan after British Open 2007.
- Nidan after 2nd World Mind Sports Games, 2012.
- Represented Ireland in Korea (KPMC) in 2006 and 2010 (25th place).
- Irish Champion in
2007,
2009 and
2010.
People I have learnt from :: Guojuan, JennieShen, Solaris , Tictactoe RIP AllanScarff who first delivered some strategy to me
Books I have translated GO-ul in Competitii
Online Go
- Ran the first online tournament for the BGA in 2004 and 2005.
- Responsible for a Texas - Ireland match
- Organised Irish 9x9 Championship events on DGS (in 2006?)
- Two Irish Online Championships in 2007 and 2008.
- In 2009 I created an Irish Interprovincial Team Competition, which ran for 3 years.
- In 2014 I started an Irish Correspondence Go Championship.
- Admin for quite a long time on the KGS server until 2015.
Top Blogs
There are not many that I have found worthy of regular attention, but I regularly check the following
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http://gogameguru.com/ A nice blog attached to a shop in Australia
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http://rfg.jeudego.org/ Which covers French Go. I actually joined their translation team recently.
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http://guojuan5p.blogspot.com/ Light on Go, but usually interesting
Irish Go
In 2007 I organised the first real tournament in Belfast with Catalin Taranu as guest pro. The tournament was repeated in 2008, 2009, 2010, and in 2011. I was on the IGA committee for about 8 years, including a reign as President of the IGA for 3 years. Now, as an emigre, I don't do much at all apart from the Correspondence Championship and the Newsletter. Recently I created an unblog which I plan to use to document Irish Go a little more. It has reached the stage where it is reasonably complete enough to be worth reading.
EGF Histograms
For a while I was interested in EGF rating distributions. I created some charts to show the evolution of various countries, you can see the album on flickr.
magic tools
Characters-to-Unicode
GenerateDiagramFromSGF
Old crufty software I made at WingsSGFPlayer.
GoWrite simply the best program to make diagrams with