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KGS was founded in 2000 by William Shubert.
The first Czech on KGS was probably makov (registered on 3.9.2000).
I registered on 2.12.2001, I’m not sure how I got to know KGS, but I think I was told by makov.
I have no idea when I founded “Český pokoj” (the Czech room). It was probably later than in […]

This weekend, I was at a tournament. Saturday was not nice, I got just one win out of three, in the first game. Second game was a loss against Vladimir Danek, in a position that was impossible to lose. So third game was an automatical loss too (you know, totally demotivated). Then I didn’t sleep […]

EYGML stands for European Youth Go Masters League. I’ve been creating (official) EYGML 2007 pages. I have learned a lot of new things, and I have refreshed some that I knew already…
I’ve…

…discovered some xhtml/css tricks (like using double divs right inside each other to avoid weird margin adding).
…learned to work with GIMP (using layers religiously) […]

Is it even possible that I forgot to advertize my new project on my own blog?
So… here it goes: I created tsumego collections.
Some people obviously like it, as I can see some traffic from sources like something.mail.yahoo.com (someone sending emails with a link to my page?). I wonder if I should write an ad into […]

Many people who have ever taught go have experienced it: someone comes and asks “is this move good or is that one better?”. You seriously don’t know but are pretty sure that the difference is not big, at least not on your level, even less on the level of the person who asked.
And you also […]

It all started by me stumbling upon a text file containing all Igo Hatsuyo-ron problems. Well, as you can see the format is not so great and encoding is obscure (GB2312). I used vim to transfer this garbage into something reasonable.
Now if you don’t know what regular expressions are, read on, if you do know, […]

I went to the tearoom to play go the other day and one very talented and promising 7kyu (he’s been playing for half a year I think, that’s a very good result) asked me to play an even game with him… I offered him a handicap, and he declined, saying that he wanted to “see […]

Now you might think that I’m just slacking off, but actually it is not so…
I spent a busy week in Bratislava, playing two go tournaments.
The first tournament was European Team Go Championship, where the Czech team placed second, just behind the ultrastrong Romanians. Third place was taken by Hungarians, who were about same strength as […]

Okay, this will be boring:
First there was Toyota Tour in Brno, where I scored 3/6 but only lost to 6dan players (and two of the games already looked rather good for me…), somehow ended up winning “best 4dan”.
After one day break there was ESGC (European Students’ Go Championship), a six round tournament where I started […]

My name is David and you also may know as Master001. But now I am Sempai001 because I am goint to be superior over anyone who stands in my way until i get to a better level. I love go and if anyone ruins or disrespects the game they should be ashamed of themselves. Anyways […]