We had another vacationer from a snowy state at this week’s meeting – Wayne, 1 dan from New York. Rob and I each played him in a four stone handicap game. Rob narrowly won his game, while I lost mine by resignation when a game-deciding life and death battle turned against me. Regulars Nate and Josh K. exchanged several small-board handicap games and I beat Nate in a six stone game. We also had a new beginner, Victoria, who played several 9×9 games.

I’ve posted the games Rob and I played against Wayne in the extended entry.

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Here are this week’s problems. The intermediate problem is another from the classic collection Gokyo Shumyo and the other two problems are from a collection of beginner excercises at Sensei’s Library.

Remember, new problems appear here every Thursday.