Today’s Meeting
- on Sunday, December 20, 2009
Tanuki no hara tsuzumi!
A total of six players showed up for the last meeting of the year, including a couple new members. Rob and I got to play for the first time in almost a month, and I got skunked pretty badly. There will be no meeting next Sunday (the 27th), but meetings will resume the first Sunday in January (the 3rd).
We also plan on running a tournament in February, probably the second Saturday (the 13th). Check here for updates and confirmation of the date.
In the New Year we’re also going to be scrapping the club ladder, which isn’t quite workable with the range of skill levels we have on a weekly basis at the club. It will be replaced by a point system – the Fort Myers Go Club Grand Prix. You’ll get one point for every game you play at the club (up to two games per week) and any games you play at a Fort Myers Go Club tournament, plus an additional point for each game you win. So if you play two games, and win one of them, you’ll get three points for that week.
The games will be regular 19×19 games with appropriate handicaps. For beginners who aren’t ready for the 19×19 board, you can count games played on a 13×13 board. At the end of six months, there will be a prize and trophy for the top players. Even weaker players can come out on top this way if they attend regularly and show improvement.
I’ve posted the record of the game between Rob and me in the extended entry.
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- 2 comments
Tom, first off I should mention that I am a double digit kyu player so please take that in consideration if you reply. In review of the game between you and Rob I only saw comments around moves 14 and 15. Do you mean to say if Joseki was played that white would have had better balance?
Pippin
We were just discussing after the game that neither of us quite remembered the standard variations of this particular joseki. When I transferred the SGF file to my computer to post it I went ahead and looked it up and added them to the variations.
It’s a bit above my pay grade to say if the game result was necessarily good or bad for white locally, or if this joseki was a good or bad choice in this context.