Hi again internet go baduk weiqi world!  After some break because of the birth of our daughter, i`m back. I don`t know how much i will keep this blog updated, but it feels wrong to play and study again without blogging again, i think it just became a habit. Here a game with relativ detailed comments in it, hope you will enjoy and if you find any mistakes, or if you have other views, opinions etc. please let me know.  I`m also planing to review some pro games in the future, not to teach somebody, just to share my studies! The focus here is of course totally different than for example at gogameguru, where you get professional reviews … i`m just a kyu player and if you read my comments you should not see them as absolute but just as thoughts of a kyu player, not a teacher – but actually that goes without saying. Maybe together we can develop a better understanding of the game, that would be nice! Ah, and for those who don`t know me at all allready, please excuse me if i will sometimes write strange english, i`m not a native speaker. And in case you did not see it allready, i started a second twitter account, i use it just 100% as a study journal (= @badukJournal ) … maybe it inspires you, i hope so, for me it is a good way to track my progress and to develop motivation. Mhmm, nothing much more to say… maybe just a few go related random things: – Still waiting (sometimes praying) for the mac version of Smartgo  – When i have time to study i do tsumego 90% of the time, i start to love tsumego, even sometimes when i`m too tired to even solve the easy ones 🙂 – I bought a fan with a Go Seigen calligraphy from the hebsacker verlag. Here is a picture:

John Fairbarn writes at 19×19 that the meaning is this: „Dark, yet clear as day“. This is from the Confucian „Doctrine of the Golden Mean“, and it is a metaphorical description of the perfect gentleman: dark on the surface, bright inside: „a gentleman has no adornment outside but is cultivated inside“. and i wonder if that maybe is in this case not (only) about the gentlemens qualities but about the qualities of Go Seigens moves?! … not many people were able to understand them immediately, but he saw the possible variations „clear as day“  – i sadly recognised that „Go World“ has published it`s last issue  – this Lee Sedol – Gu Li Jubango is amazing… i would like to see Lee Sedol win 😀 Have nice game … and day 😉

“Competition and faith are my life-long vocations. Like water and fire, I depend on both. When I couldn’t outrank the others, it was time for me to leave. There are two things in my life, truth and Go.” Go Seigen