This weekend I’ll be playing in the Irish Go Open. I hope the weather will be good enough to have a walk between tournament rounds, and do some sightseeing. At the moment, I’m sharpening my tesujis, to fight with style against my red-haired opponents. Unluckily I don’t like beer (due to a weird genetic mutation),… Read More »
Sometimes I’d like to have technical books in “smurf-size” format. In the last months I’ve been reading some interesting books, but the reading experience was handicapped due to their uncomfortable format. Why do technical books have to be so big? It’s quite impossible to carry them and read on bus, or even in bed. It’s… Read More »
I don’t know why, but I subscribed to the weather forecast of some European cities where some friends live. It seems like looking at these, I magically connect with their moods. Today is a great sunny day in Barcelona, but it’s an even sunnier day in Alicante, so my family is probably enjoying a nice… Read More »
Sometimes I feel playing Go is like speaking Esperanto, in social terms… Some years ago I read some kind of web page regarding language learning. It had a list of different languages, with the pros and cons of learning each one. For example, English is a widely used language, being the facto standard as the… Read More »
This weekend I’ve been playing Go for full-time, in the Barcelona’s Go Tournament. The venue was really close to home, only 3 minutes walking, and maybe this is the reason that I had a good tournament. Finally my score was 4 wins from 5 rounds, but the best thing is that I think I’ve played… Read More »
The Barcelona Go Tournament is arriving! This weekend I’m going to participate in the XXV Barcelona Go Tournament. I’m really excited… I’ve been looking forward to this event for months. It’s a wide collection of feelings: fun, nervous, fight!, laughs, hugs, jokes, brain power… A large quantity of people come from different parts of Spain… Read More »
On the last weekend I was helping in the course of the Spanish Go Championship Finals. I went to note down the games played by the 8 candidates in my laptop. But luckily I discovered an open WiFi net, therefore I decided to broadcast in live the games, on KGS (a Go server). I was… Read More »
Two years ago, I arrived to Barcelona to continue my Ph.D studies. Two years, how long!, who could imagine all the things that were going to happen? In those days I was looking for a programming language to “fast-prototype” my ideas. The final match was between Python and Ruby, and I finally started to learn… Read More »
Yesterday I had an excellent time playing Go! I looked for some Go players in Bournemouth (where I’m staying for my holidays), and I found a phone number at the British Go Association website. I rang him and we arranged a meeting. He was totally surprised: he received a call from a player with a… Read More »
At bed-time, I’m reading a Go book called “One Thousand and One Life-and-Death Problems“. It’s a collection of problems to challenge your mind. The interesting issue is that most problems are quite easy, but anyway you spend a lot of time trying to solve them. Why? Because they make you think, they put in doubt… Read More »