Is there interest in restarting Fort Myers meetings? Post a comment (you should be able to register an account now.)

We’re just not getting enough attendance at the weekly meetings, so Sunday meetings are canceled until further notice. I will post here if there if we start them up again or set up a new meeting night.

I probably should have posted this earlier, but I think it goes without saying that we’re not having a meeting today.

Now that the club blog is getting an established page rank it’s starting to get a lot of comment and traceback spam. I’ve turned on comment moderation until I get a good spam filter working, so it might take a little while until your comments appear. Fortunately, we have very few readers and even fewer leaving comments, so it shouldn’t be too much of a burden.

Once you’ve had one comment approved, further comments should get approved automatically. I’ll also get user registration set up at some point in the future, and will get the members area going. I’ve got lots of stuff planned, like a database search, club game archive, club ratings, correspondence games, even limited KGS integration are all possible.

I’ve also turned off the contact form because it was just sending me HUGE amounts of spam. I’ll turn it back on when I have time to set up one that does a better job blocking spammers. If you’d like to contact the club, please just leave a a comment on any post – we’ll get it. Or just show up at the club! Somebody is there every week (it will be posted here if a meeting is canceled).

Rob and I renewed our series at yesterday’s meeting after a hiatus. Rob took the game by resignation, bringing the series to a draw at six games apiece. Vicki, Josh K. and Kevin traded a number of 9×9 games, and Josh K. and Kevin played a couple of their first 19×19 handicap games against me.

We’re going to be debuting a new club ranking system for handling handicaps over the coming weeks, so be sure to show up to the meetings to establish your rank.

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Looks like most folks’ Valentine’s Day plans didn’t include go! Still, we had newcomers Vicki and Victoria in attendance so several games of 9×9 handicap go were played, as well as a round of scrabble.