I randomly came across one of my old journal entries while searching for something else online. (It seems I still don't use google as a verb.) I actually made it to a UCC meet last week. The 5th annual tournament is coming up and I've been getting back into the habit of playing - a combination of turn based online games and weekly local ones. Cobh ( Read more... )

nabnerd and I started tipping away at the vaguest outline of a framework for a Go engine over the summer. I've been playing on KGS a little this week and decided to try setting up a bot last night.

For reference, I used this old guide for windows. I was going to keep the steps in parallel to those listed there but realized that it meanders ( Read more... )

Got a bit of reading done last night while copying stuff from the dying drive. Of note on the Go front was one (now abandoned) blog about two months spent learning Weiqi in China. It's balanced in that it gives accounts of both how the two authors lived as well as how their game progressed, complete with photos and game files ( Read more... )

While I have made a post about this over on Cork Go, I wanted to make a few notes here in case I want to refer back to check my progress later this year. At the first one, back in Jan 2008, I entered as 10k and won a single of my four games. This time around, I entered as 9k and won 2 of 5. Statistically, this is an improvement. I actually felt ( Read more... )

Hmm, almost 2 months since my last entry. Guess I've either been too busy with real life to find time to post, or have had nothing worthwhile to write about. Possibly both. Or maybe the recent wow expansion coupled with a dash of guild frolicking (double entendre intended) has something to do with it. Regardless, after a certain someone enticed my ( Read more... )

At last a chance to sit down and type up some random thoughts and findings.

Tipping away at Go. Have about a hundred turn-based games running and managed to log into KGS earlier for a few games. Going to bribe shunming with some anime later in return for a few games. creatorofsplab is either dead or has lost the ability to text from his mobile as I've not gotten a ( Read more... )

The 96 astra finally broke down last week. (Tensioner pulley for the timing belt sheared a bolt off in case anyone is interested. No, didn't think so.) This would not have been so troublesome had I not been about 100 miles from home at the time. A fun-filled (not really) five and a half hours later, I made it back. Given the cost associated with ( Read more... )

I spent the last week of july offline; used the time to catch up on anime mostly. Haven't touched WoW in about a fortnight. I think my last months-long break might have been prompted by a similar event.

My desire to play go has been growing. I've maxed out my games on OGS and am waiting for my sub renewal to go through so I can start a few more. A ( Read more... )

Another month-long gap since my last update. Hadn't been spending that much time online up to a fortnight ago. Doing increasing hours at work, and my aunt renewed my WoW subscription in return for taking care of her site, so any spare time I've had in the evenings has been lost to one of those. shunming pointed out a great reference to me though, which is ( Read more... )

While I was already aware about Go'n'Games, it appears that there are more than one crowd who organize these study trips. experience go in china for instance. I suppose it makes sense, in terms of economics, for both the organizers and the tutoring go players (not the most stable of careers for monetary reward), while at the same time appealing to ( Read more... )