Today the International Go Federation announced an anti-doping policy to be used in international competitions. Despite Go is defined as “a low risk sport”, they will check your blood or urine. So, time to discover if green tea is on the Anti-Doping Agency’s drug list. Anyway, I suspect that some university tournaments might be cancelled… Read More »
Last weekend I took part in the Barcelona’s Go Tournament. As every year many people from Europe came to enjoy the nice weather of Barcelona, while playing some tough games. Three Koreans took the top positions, and among them, my Go (or Baduk) teacher, Lluis Oh 6 dan. My score was 2 wins from 5… Read More »
One of the sides events of the London Tournament was the Lightning Tournament, where you play Go (with handicap) with a really short time per player. During the qualifications the time was 10 minutes per player (sudden death, i.e. without byo-yomi), and in the knock-out finals it was 12 minutes. I won 5 in a… Read More »
In a couple of hours I’ll be boarding in a plane to London. I’m going to take part in the London Tournament, and days later do some sightseeing. See you! Happy next year!
The other day I met up with some friends to play a lot of different games, except Go (because we are all Go players and one of them wanted to do something different). Here you can see myself, teaching how to play Hex to César (the strongest Go player in Spain). Hex is a board… Read More »
Post #200, and time of changes. – I’m unemployed now. Eventually I finish my last day in my company. It was somehow a sad day, with lots of “goodbye”, “good luck”, and such… but all my coworkers collect some money and gave me a 200eur voucher for buying a camera! I’ve learned a lot during… Read More »
Finally, this year’s Spanish Open is coming. Next weekend, more than 60 people from the whole Europe will play Go in the University of Alicante. I’m really excited… eager for hitting the first stone on the board. This event is special for me. It’s the first tournament held in my homeland, and in the University… Read More »
Somebody sent me a link to an article about Computer Go, appeared in the “IEEE Spectrum” magazine. It’s quite unbelievable that the author (who was involved in the Deep Blue development) wrote this overall article about the subject, mostly focusing the solution in brute-force… “Brute-force computation has eclipsed humans in chess, and it could soon… Read More »
I’m among kyus (pupils) most of the time, but sometimes I’m among dans (masters). Playing with kyus is like chatting, you don’t need to be really concentrated. But if you play with a dan, you shouldn’t loose your concentration, never. Of course, this makes the situation far more interesting. You really fight! When you are… Read More »
I’ve just come back home after spending a weekend in Dublin. Jordi suggested me to go there to enjoy some games with the Irish, and take place in the Irish Go Open, and eventually I went and had a nice time playing. I was really lucky on the board, getting a full score (5 wins… Read More »