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 »
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 »
Since the beginning of the year, the population of books at home has increased enormously. I’ve decided to read more technical books, therefore I need more space for them. A new bookshelf, for example. This morning I tried to put up a bookshelf in the living-room, but firstly I discovered that the wall was too… Read More »
Sometimes one of your friends get connected to Internet. Suddenly, he/she discovers those stupid emails (almost spam) with a funny text, and decide to send them to everybody… and your email address starts to appear in the CC of all those stupids emails… until you directly tell your friend off. But now, it could be… 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 »
To finish with this puzzles row, here is an elegant one. Alberto (my flatmate) set me, and I spent some minutes until I sorted it out: There are two cities in the desert. The inhabitants of the first city always tell the truth. The inhabitants of the second city always lie. You have arrived to… Read More »