I have not much time at the moment, so here a game with only very few comments. See you, have a nice game! (;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2] RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.50]TM[1500]OT[4×80 byo-yomi] PW[eyecatcher]PB[Riccardo]WR[6k]BR[7k]DT[2013-04-23]PC[The KGS Go Server at http://www.gokgs.com/]RE[W+Resign] ;B[pd]BL[1498.515]C[Riccardo [7k]: have a nice game eyecatcher [6k]: hello, have a nice game ] ;W[dp]WL[1482.416] ;B[dd]BL[1497.284] ;W[qp]WL[1478.418] ;B[jd]BL[1491.922] ;W[qf]WL[1466.432] ;B[nc]BL[1489.276]TR[nd]C[B7 is wrong i […]

I think you know this already, but in case you don’t … enjoy 🙂 “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

I started to play at Wbaduk again… mostly fast games (account: „Amon“) … very frustrating. After about 20 games i was fallen to 14 Kyu! (At KGS i`m solid 6 kyu). About 1 year ago i was writing about WBADUK before. See my older Post about my problems at WBADUK here: http://www.truthandgo.com/?p=60 Now again my goal […]

Here another review of one of my games…  mostyl in english.Wie schon im letzten Post angkündigt werde ich all meine Spiele mit meinem KGS account „Eyecatcher“ hier veröffentlichen … evtl. ein guter Trick um sich auf ein möglichst hohes Konzentrationsnivaue zu bringen.  (;GM[1]FF[4]SZ[19]AP[SmartGo:2.8.3.0]CA[UTF-8]GN[gustiql]PW[eyecatcher]WR[6k]PB[gustiql]BR[6k]DT[2013-03-21]PC[The KGS Go Server at http://www.gokgs.com/]KM[6.5]RE[W+15.50]RU[Japanese]TM[2100.0]OT[2×70 byo-yomi]C[I played white. ];B[pp]BL[2094.6];W[dd]WL[2072.7];B[pc]BL[2092.2];W[dq]WL[2043.3]C[Next to play at […]

In order to to break through some obstacles: 1. From now on i will have 2 KGS accounts  … one for „serious“ games with high concentration and one for casual games.  Every game i play with „Eyecatcher“ (KGS) will be  published here. I will play those games totally serious and with all effort. 2.  Will […]

Dear Go fan, i will reactivate this blog again! But this time at least 50% in my native language which is german! But to stay in contact with all english readers … i will try to have allways some content in english as well. Not sure at the moment but for example: short english game […]

I will never stop playing Go but  my study at the film academy is very time consuming and while i have several other hobbys as well … i think i should stop with writing about my Go-progress. At the moment it is hard enough to find some time to actually play  … Maybe i will […]

In the last time, i`m not very successful, i lost most of the games i played.That might have to do something with the fact that i`m working on a documentary film right now, that keeps me busy most of the time. But anyway i think it is not wise to always look for a excuse […]

I was white. Time: 20 min + 20 stones in 6 minutes canadian time. B7: I do not know much joseki W8: Not very common, but possibleW10: Maybe my first mistake, has to be at p4.W18: I thought there is a chance to live with the 2 stones at Q5, but they got killed. W58: […]

As i said before, i will go on with  publishing here  e v e r y  long game i play,with at least some written thoughts about it.Here are 8 games i played recently…comments and ~ variations  are included in every one of them. The one which was easy to play (;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.50]TM[1800]OT[5×30 byo-yomi]GN[pedometer-eyecatcher]PW[pedometer]PB[eyecatcher]WR[5k]BR[6k]DT[2011-11-22]PC[The KGS Go Server […]

Sometimes you win a game, but afterwards you realize that you indeed played badly and that you only won, because of some more or less unexpected mistakes of your opponent, who was playing, until some blunder, better than you! Here are 2 such games: „The one which was won late and with some luck“ (;GM[1]FF[4]SZ[19]AP[SmartGo:2.8.3.0]CA[UTF-8]GN[eyecatcher-hanganBC5]PW[eyecatcher]WR[6k]PB[hanganBC5]BR[6k]DT[2011-11-20]PC[The […]

http://gooften.net/ Antti Törmänen is studying as an Insei (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insei) in Japan! He writes about Go Theory, Japan, his experiences at the Nihon Ki-in and several other things.I just discovered this blog via twitter yesterday, and i`m very exited to read it from the beginning. And today it is „Go of Ten`s“ first birthday! Congratulations and good […]

25 min + 3x 1:10 min byo-yomi , i was white and won by resignation.W10: Maybe not good, better @ M16W34: strange situation now, i decided to focus on the the center… W42: Tenuki maybe not best, black can force white into bad shape at the top nowB63: Several weak groups now… complicated situation. B73: […]

Although in this game i made a terrible endgame mistake, i`m not regretting it completely … it was a long and very nice game. It would have been not hard to see the shortage of liberties after W250 … but sometimes in the endgame, especially if i`m leading, i totally stop thinking and play like […]

This game was played with 25 min + 5 x 30 seconds … I played poorly… B9 is very unusual … the next time i meet a much stronger player i will ask what he (or her) would play with w10. W12 was maybe a bit naive. I think W24 is a mistake, better play […]

Sometimes one should stop playing one fast game after the other … again and again… i think you can only feel  the real beauty of the game if you think hard and long … if you do not make poka (blunder) and if you try hard to find the best move in each situation. „Smartbot“ a […]

Ok,i think i will not handle it to write reviews about every „serious“ game i play… but i will continue to post them all here and i will write reviews about some of them. Here are 3 serious games i played recently, in the first game record some comments and variations are included. (I was white) […]

I`m really doing what i decided recently …  i play a lot of fast games without regretting bad moves … just for fun … and long games… but if i play a long game,  i`m most of the time quite concentrated… and i`m posting every long game here with some comments about it. I really […]

After playing – again – too many Games, in which i made too many obvious mistakes i decided to bring some structure in my (online-) playing habits. To improve my Go, i will, from now on, only play two kinds of games, and i will decide which kind of game i`m going to play before […]

(Why am i writing in English? I love to write in english because it is a nice feeling that by using english one can connect with Go players all over the world … but i`m not a native speaker and my abilities to write in english are not very good … maybe you enjoy my […]

Old Men Play Games Near Jongmyo Park from ok korea on Vimeo. “You should look at the board and play wherever you want to. This is the way to get stronger.” Takemiya Masaki

 Please notice: Of course i write these reviews because i want to know why i have lost  or which bad moves of my opponent gave me the victory… but i`m not a go teacher and there  might be mistakes, small and big ones, in this analysis.  I use my brain  🙂  as well as Kogos […]