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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Shutdown

shutdown

Should I stop blogging?, Is SHUTDOWN on the horizon?. Well folks I been struggeling with this... I don't know if to stop or continue... I have in my good days 4 viewers and prob 1 of them is me...

So I think I need to rethink the LIFE of this BLOG... Don't get me wrong it has been good and all. I also want to make clear am not going away in the world of GO, just that Blogging doesn't seem like a great path...

I have been trying Blogging and Photo Blogging and Both really don't take me anywhere... And that should tell you AM NOT A MYSPACE FAN!...

Trying to see what to do with my many ideas this year... Not to self promote but I think am going to do a Gallery of my photo works....

Later crew.

Thank you

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Improvement

handycap
Well Guys I have improved to some extend.I won my 1st 2 games against GnGO and Sunday Max noticed my improvement... It was a really close game the one we had on Sunday...

Trying to read more about techniques and opening moves, to better grab a taste on the right moves.

The funny thing is that while the game was on with Max, I was thinking about proverbs, things I had read, things I saw on a game, all in my head... I may be starting to get some of the Go spirit in me, or just that my Go is growing.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Pro Game

For those who had never seen a PRO Game...

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Contributions

To my Surprise a Friend of mine from Cyclone Go club, saw my new flyers and he really liked them... So he asked me to modify them to be used for his Club Campaing... In that spirit I did some custom work for the AGA; let's see what they say...

10-4

New Flyers

I have Place some new Flyers, So please let me know what you guys think so we can Start some kind of distribution Chain... Once it has been finalized on which one suits best, I will make a Link available...

Poster #1 (Break the routine)
breaking

Poster #2 (Mind wonder)
mind

Poster #3 (AKIRA)
akira

Poster #4 (CODE)

Da vinci Code

Monday, January 22, 2007

9 Stone Handy Joseki

Am currently in a standstill on my 9 stones technique against my peers... I have learn a new Joseki to cope with a Typical Invasion.

Here it is in Detail

9 Stone Joseki

( I had troubles with Goodshape, so I decided to place the SGF instead)

One of the key points in Handycap Games is to use your Stones to Attack!. The main thing is you got to be more aggressive in this types of Games... I think I got it... I played against a Bot to practive and I did improve quite a bit... Will try to practice this Joseki into a Real Game maybe on KGS or Panda...

I have found another Great Dictionary of Go, but I should Say BADUK! is a Korean to English terms pocket book enjoy!.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

A Hub

Ziggy's got a surprised visitor from Thailand!, She is a cool girl around 4 kyu in Thai I still don't know what that will be in AGA terms, I hope she comes back again and shows us all some techniques...

I am really impressed on how we are growing today 2 new people came by for a Game... Thai and a Tex-mex (born in US but raised in MX) so now Ziggy's is getting to have an internationl flavor!...

We also had great talks on what we could possibly do to Improve, Maybe soon you will see changes... But the only thing that will not change is "WE ARE ALL HERE TO HAVE FUN!" and that is the bottom line...

As for me I still need to pay more attention...


PS: She ask me to place a Game Record template or try Ziggy's

I based them on the original design by the Pitsburgh Go Club

Note: For information on How to use Kinfus
Until next time...

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Club Exposure


All Please take a time a print or distribute our flyer so more people will be aware of GO and our Club. I will try to do more appealing Flyers for our use.

In another Note there are several Ideas on the Table to Improve our club here are some (let me know what you Think):

*Playing Go at least once a Month at Asian locals
Then it can become a Group Lunch after this.

*Meet Twice a Week

*Start ranking Games and track progress

Like I said there some Ideas to improve the Club.

Monday, January 15, 2007

Pi: a movie


I found to what seems to be the original Pi Version out there. PI is a movie about trying to find a model for everything in the world. On the many dialogs that the character gets involves GO is mentioned and is portrayed as the Game of uniqueness that NO two games will ever be the same. Here the principal character refutes the idea and says that every time you play the moves are more and more narrow and you eventually play in a pattern.

Here is the Trailer

Some Info about the movie:
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Pi
MPAA Rating: R
Release Date: July 24, 1998 (USA)

Pi Cast and Crew:
Sean Gullette - (Max Cohen)
Mark Margolis - (Sol Robeson)
Ben Shenkman - (Lenny Meyer)
Pamela Hart - (Marcy Dawson)
Stephen Pearlman - (Rabbi Cohen)
Samia Shoaib - (Devi)
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A short Version in Spanish (sorry for this)

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Sunday at China town

go, wei qi

China town in Houston, another world in this city.. Street signs in many asian languages, places to eat authentic noodles. Places one can find many things...

This is the short day in China town.

First some go at Ziggy's (Max and Keith playing a game here)

max, keith playing go

After this I was hungry so the natural thing after playing Go was going for Asian craving... I ate noodles at my fav spot, Where you need to know the Name in Mandarin to Order something...

Like on the menu you see Here!
special
menu mandarin

The cool thing is if you eat here is less that 4 Bucks per person and for 0.99$ you can get a great tea 550cc

Then it was off to do some shopping at the local Asian market and this neat things I found along the way...


asian dog



boy and girl

I think this is like Jell-O, No clue really

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

And I...



AM READY TO LEAVE THE GROUND!... Pretty soon in this city of Blinding lights

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The Trip


It all started like this picture a Boarding Pass, a Book, a Camera and a pint...

Not much happened actually... went to Spain, tried to play some locals but I could only play online on KGS for a short while while on a Cyber cafe.. Later I try contacting people in Venice but they had a Sky+Go vacation... what an intresting concept... But to my amasement even in a small town that I was in, I ask about GO and they knew the game...

Go is more popular than I thought... I brought my Go Board and some stones and show the game to some family members from Barcelona and I think they will pick up the game very fast...

What about my go?, well I think an improvement was made. Practice and did some Go problems and Read some Theory of Shapes... So Hopefully I have improved a bit. The world of the stones is a tricky one but one that brings many friends...

A new era starts on 2007,I will embark on a Kids Go site with the AGF and Will try to bring the club to new heights if time permits...

I hope all of you, my Readers if ANY!, Had a great Holiday and a Great YEAR!...

So to all of you I say SALUD!

Monday, January 08, 2007

JUst Landed....


Just landed!!!!

Super tired will tell the stories later

 
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