Alejo's Tenuki

Google Chrome and KGS

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:49:00 -0500

Yesterday Google launched a beta version of his new browser: Chrome.

On one hand, first independent analysis show that this application uses less resources than Firefox and Internet Explorer. It introduces some good features, as the internal task monitor... On the other hand, as it's a beta version, there are already 3 security bugs described and you'll need to upgrade to java 6.10 version if you want to use any java tool on this browser. KGS' homepage appears to be somewhat unformatted and the java applet doesn't load. I've tried a few other applications (not java based) such as EidoGo and they work perfectly well.

Unfortunatelly, there is only the windows XP version available, MAC and Linux versions are supposed to be released on the forecoming weeks. You may be surprised by the news if you already know that Google is the main sponsor of Firefox, but is is all logical if we take into account google's plans... By the way, if you are used to Firefox's keyboard shortcuts, I'm glad to tell you that they are exactly the same in Chrome.

Study tools for Unix

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:50:00 -0500

The more I'm using unix systems, the more homesick I'm of windows. It is very secure and has lots of advantages when compared to Microsoft's operative system, but the lack of powerful go software for Unix as well as good drivers for 3D cards are two of the major drawbacks.

Today I've been playing with some programs and Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) trying to get them working.

Here you have the results, ordered from worst perfomance to best.

Worst:

Smartgo: Unable to load program.
Moyo Go Studio: loads the program but fails to render the board, which turns the program in somewhat close to useless.

Works with bugs:

Stonebase: it does work, but it presents some bugs when trying to open games and a few more minor bugs. On the other hand, it is the only free software which includes an extensive database of professional games (though the names are in chinese).

Good:

Drago: works smoothly.

There are other programs which are directly designed for working under linux systems which I already talked about.

Other newer programs such as Universal 3D chess... show problems mostly related with the 3D card drivers. On the specific case of U3DC, the drop-down menus are disabled and the variation tree doesn't work, once you click on the variation tree, the program breaks down. On the other hand, it is a very good piece of software for making demostrations and so on.

If you want to get more information on how to load these programs as well as screenshots and a nice trick for loading them if you have a windows partition, click on the continue reading article

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"What's your rank" poll results

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:26:00 -0500

On the 20th of June I started a new poll in order to know the level of the players who usually visits this blog.

Back from holidays I checked the results and the highest mark had already gone over 100 results, so it is time to extract some conclusions from the poll. The ones who already answered the question already know it, but for the ones who didn't, the categories where separated in the following way:

Lower from 20k
From 15k to 20k
From 10k to 15k
From 5k to 10k
From 1k to 5k
1 dan or higher

As you can see the lower categories have been truncated into more parts as the website is intended to be focused for these users while it may be of limited interest for dan players.

The results are shown in the next two graphics:

As you can see, most of the audience is ranked over 15k, being the most common level between 10k and 15k, closely followed by the weak single-digit kyu players (like me). Generally speaking, over 50% of the visitors have a level among 15k and 1k, which is not very surprising as it is the most common population. However, there are quite a few dan players who visit this blog, even more than complete beginners.

It would be nice to know the statistics for every single entry, as I think differences would be much more relevant, while videoreviews would be interesting for certain levels, my own reviews would be for others.

Universal 3D Chess Review

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:01:39 -0500

Here you have a review on the final release of Universal 3D Chess:

Currently you can only watch it through youtube or download this version with a 1036x676 resolution HERE (encoded with Xvid).

The final public realease is already available at the project's homepage: VoilaMonsieur

Weird game between 8d and 9d

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:29:00 -0500

Last Sunday was held the final game to decide who would go to the World Mind Sports Games representing the USA in Beijing in October. The game confronted Joey Hung 8d vs Jie Li 9d and it was very interesting and very didactic as a sample of how to count ko threats and how to handle them.

But what strikes me the most was a sequence I found during the game and I'm still thinking it's worth trying. I was said during the game that my move wasn't good, but without explanation.

As you can see on the next image, there is a big fight going on the upper right corner of the board where there are several white and black groups involved and winning this fight would almost decide the result of the game.

Now that you've seen the board I'll tell you that the original sequence ends up with a huge ko for live or death. You can see the whole game on one board and my variation on another one.

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Universal 3D Chess Testing

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:10:20 -0500

Universal 3D Chess is a tool created by the SunXi Go Screensaver developer. As you may already know, the development of this tool starts with the Go (instead of chess), where it uses a similar graphic engine to the one we saw in SunXi Go Screensaver.

When I saw that there some beta testers needed to work in the project I signed up immediatelly as I wanted to get involved in the project. The fact is that I can't tell you much about the program but I'd like to show you this image I got on my laptop with some boards opened, different zooming on each board, with the 3D ultra-high-details enabled, so that you make yourself an idea of how it looks like

The image is made on a 1440x900 resolution (but compressed with JPG, in order to save space). You should take into account that this image does not represent the actual quality of the final product.

If you want to see more images and know more about this program go here: U3DChess at GoDiscussions.com

New job, new preferences

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:03:27 -0500

This week I got into a new job where everything I knew is futile and the daily routine is based on pouring information into my brain from 8:00 to 18:00 (with a lunch break). Unfortunatelly, in order to understand the slightest amount of this knowledge, my brain needs to process it at a lower pace at home during the following hours.

The result is that my free time is reduced to it's smallest representation and I'm too tired to place stones in a goban in any sort of logical order. Just to give you a quick sample, I haven't checked my computer in 3 days, something which I used to do at least twice a day, and I didin't go to the usual weekly club meeting. So, in the end, the spare time for Go has been reduced to weekends where I have to combine it with my girlfriend... so I guess I won't be playing as much Go or reviewing software on the forecoming months as I had been doing lately.

A couple things more before finishing the post:

-The pro games database has been deleted from the databases' site in order to avoid some copyright conflicts. It seems that there are different points of view in this field, so if I don't want to get into trouble with anyone, deleting it seems the most reasonable behaviour.

-I've added the possibility to announce yourself on this site, you'll see the link at the upper right.

-The videoreviews of MoyoGoStudio and Stonebase are partially done, but as they require quite a lot of dedication to finish them in order to get a decent result, and some video post-processing, so these two projects will be delayed until said otherwise.

Go Blogs crisis

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:48:00 -0500

Yesterday I was reading the usual feeds on my google reader till I realised that there were only 5 major writers... out of a total list over 30 sources. Then, I decided to take a look at the Go Blogs list on Sensei's Library, just to realise that the Active/Inactive list of bloggers was quite outdated.

The result: (in pink the new inactive ones)

`[361 points = Go \| http://www.361points.com/blog/] (by [Sorin Gherman])`
`[Alejo's Tenuki \| http://www.alejostenuki.com/blog/] (9k KGS, partially a videoblog)[RSS Feed\|http://alejostenuki.com/blog/feeds/index.rss2]`
`- [Ava's Go Journey \| http://go-journey.blogspot.com] (14k KGS, starts out at 18k) [RSS Feel\|http://go-journey.blogspot.com/atom.xml]`
`[Baduk und Sprache \| http://baduk.at]: [maruseru]'s blog, in german`
`[ChiyoDad Learns Go \| http://chiyodad.blogspot.com] (8k KGS, blog starts at unranked) [RSS Feed\|http://chiyodad.blogspot.com/atom.xml]`
`[Contemplations on Go \| http://grandyan.blogspot.com/] ([GrandYan]'s blog, starts at 1d)`


`[FlameBlade's: Board Mirroring the Soul \| http://www.flamingstones.blogspot.com] (dan level)`
`[frankiii's blog \| http://frankiii.blogspot.com/] (18k, blog starts at 21k) [RSS Feed\|http://frankiii.blogspot.com/atom.xml]`
`[Go Around \| http://5around.blogspot.com/] (Photos from Italian and some European Tournaments, in Italian)`
`- [Go4Go.net Go News \| http://www.go4go.net/v2/modules/news/] [RSS Feed \| http://www.go4go.net/v2/backend.php]`
`[Go Game In Russia \| http://go.weiqi.ru/] [RSS Feed\|http://go.weiqi.ru/rss]`
`- [A Go Player \| http://goplayer.blogspot.com/] (15k, blog starts at 24k)`
`[Igo Report\|http://igoreport.blogspot.com/] (by Nacho Cernuda, 4d in Spanish)`
`[Jon Boley\|http://myspace.com/spazzy_j] (6d, blogging from Seoul, Korea)`
`[Kami no Itte\|http://kaminoitte.com/blog/] (blog by [Codexus]) [RSS Feed \| http://kaminoitte.com/dotclear/rss.php]`
`- [Kikashi \| http://kikashi.blogspot.com] (Learning Experiments in the Game of Go)`
`[Kouseis World \| http://kouseisworld.blogspot.com] (1k, German Blog about Go)`
`- [Malweth's Go Blog \| http://www.tsumego.net/blog] (9k, blog starts at 18k)`
`[Maths and Weiqi...with a British Accent \| http://mathsandweiqi.blogspot.com]`
`- [Mr Ooijer Blogs \| http://blogger.xs4all.nl/rongen17/] Jan van Rongens Blog [RSS Feed\|http://blogger.xs4all.nl/rongen17/Rss.aspx]`
`[Nachtrabe's Baduk Blog\|http://nachtsbaduk.blogspot.com/] (8k, [nachtrabe's\|nachtrabe] baduk blog, formerly on SL)`
`[NannyOgg's Shodan Challenge Blog \| http://shodan-challenge.blogspot.com/] [RSS Feed\|http://shodan-challenge.blogspot.com/atom.xml]`
`[Nexik Baduk School\| http://www.baduk.nexik.net/] (Dan level)`
`- [rayen's Go blog during his fulltime study in Go\| http://www.progamed.com] (dan level)`
`[Polish Go\| http://polishgo.blogspot.com/] (Dan level)`
`- [A River of Stones \| http://bodhiwater.blogspot.com/] [RSS Feed \| http://feeds.feedburner.com/ARiverOfStones]`
`- [Rob's Go Blog \| http://waykay.blogspot.com] [RSS Feed\|http://waykay.blogspot.com/atom.xml] [RobFerguson]'s Go Blog`
`- [The Shodan Year \| http://the-shodan.blogspot.com/] Ash's improvement log during the BGS's Shodan Challenge program.`
`[Think, strive, good luck \| http://think2improve.blogspot.com/] Jayme Fosa`
`[A Shugyosha's Journey \|http://www.bodhiwater.blogspot.com/] (29k, blog starts at 30k) [RSS Feed\|http://bodhiwater.blogspot.com/atom.xml]`
`- [Snakeeater on Go \| http://snakeeatergo.blogspot.com/] (4k)`
`- [Studying Weiqi in China \| http://www.gostudent.blogspot.com/]`
`[study at Myongji University in Korea \| http://www.jens.baduk4u.de] Jens Henker 4d, in german and english`
`[TheKro's Nest \| http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/~skroon/personal/blog/] [Steve]'s blog (1k)`
`- [toastcrumb's Go Blog\|http://shodansummer.blogspot.com/] (12k)`
`- [Tsumego.net - The game of Go (Weiqi) \| http://www.tsumego.net/blog/index.php] [RSS Feed \| http://www.malweth.net/nucleus/atom.php?blogid=2]`
`[Wolvie's Go Blog\|http://wolviego.blogdrive.com/] (30k)`
`[World news about game of Go\|http://go-news.blogspot.com/]`
`- [xed_over\|http://www.xanga.com/go_player] (9 kyu, began blog at 12 kyu)`
`[IgoBlog\|http://www.igochile.cl/blog/] News in Spanish`
`* [ziggy's go club]`

All in all, 15 blogs had to be removed from the Active Blogs list due to the lack of activity during the last 6 months or the impossibility to reach their addresses. Some of them already announced their desire to stop blogging, but others were just left to their own luck by their owners.

Even there is still a nice list of active blogs, if you check your feeds reader, you'll realise that there are only a few of them which are regularly posting on their blogs. In fact, most of the feeds you received last month came from only 5 authors. Now I hope you get what I mean by Go Blogs Crisis.

Playing too aggressively

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:55:16 -0500

For some reason, during the last month I've realised that I'm playing way too aggresively without bothering about making points while chasing my opponent. Obviously, as a result of this I tend to make kill-or-die games which may end up as flawless victories or tremendous defeats.

Though I've tried to fix this behaviour by making some sort of moyo-based fuseki, I always get into hardous fights in the middle game with big groups involved.

On the next two games there are both samples of this "bug" in my playing style: in the first one I manage to win by a larg margin but one of my groups is killed and in the second one... well... you'd better watch it for yourself what happens when my reading isn't as good as my opponent's.

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Games Databases

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:50:08 -0500

In order to offer a source of regular games with quality, I've opened a new section called "the Database" where you'll be able to find some game collections which are available for free on the internet.

Currently there are "only" two games databases available for download, which sum up a total amount over 105000 games.

The first one includes 40683 professional games extracted from Moyo Go Studio (till year 2005) and the second one is a collection of high dan players at KGS. You may use them with your preferred pattern search engine, such as Kombilo.

Unfortunatelly, I couldn't find a proper collection of recent professional games which could be distributed freely on the internet, so any contributions will be greatly welcomed.

Update: There has been added a database obtained from the Tygem Go server, with 22477 games mostly played by 8d and 9d.

KGS 5d vs 4d: Tesuji trainning

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:13:58 -0500

When I logged yesterday in KGS and started watching the highest ranked game I didn't know how profitable would that game be for me.

The openning was unimpressive, a couple of pincers and some usual invasions, but it soon started to be a fighting game were stones were cut all over the board.

During the last month I've been reading the book on Tesuji by James Davies without realising any major improval in my level of the game... until I saw this game.

When I saw black's move 103 on the image, I instantly realised what he was trying to build.

By the way, the game is loaded on the continue reading with all the solutions to the tsumegos I'm talking about.

Unfortunatelly, white also noticed black's intentions, so he blocked the tesuji on the next move by playing at O15 and black took advantatge of it by attacking the right side, sliding downwards to S11.

A few moves later, after deciding what would happen with the stones placed on the right side, black decided to retake the attack on the cutting stones. Can you find the appropiate tesuji?

At this point of the game there was some discussion about if the tesuji didn't work or not, mainly because it was announced by a 7k (me) and it received some good commentaries from dan players and some bad ones from kyu players. In the end, the game was cloned and we discussed there the tesuji till we found it would work on the current position of the board.

The middle game went on and the lower group of white was about to die in a huge ko where both of the players had lots of ko threats but was won by white after ignoring a cut at E4, which would have left the upper right group eyeless if black had played properly.

So this was the final situation where, after the ko, white attempts to live by playing 220. According to a 6d who was watching the game, there is a possible way to kill white, which went unseen by the 4d who was playing as black. Can you see it? Actually, it isn't as hard as you would expect, but both players were already playing on a short byo-yomi basis.

For this tsumego, you should consider that the black group on the upper left corner is unconditionally alive, and that there isn't any sort of escapatory tesuji around F14.

On the other hand, when black defended at A16 and white played A13, black decided to play A11 in order to remove the second eye. This tesuji is well-known as the throw-in tesuji, but does this work in this occasion? Can white live after the throw-in?

In the end, what surprised me the most was move 230. It reminds me of the game between Hikaru and the Korean child, where the first made a move who everyone thought to be an error and managed to get a nice result.

Here you have move 230:

Black resigned after realising the meaning of the H13 move. Sincerely, congratulations on white for this move. You have the solution at the real game.

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Suspicious opponents

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:16:43 -0500

Yesterday I played the third game of the Ibero-American Tournament in KGS. My opponent was of unknown strenght, as his rank is hidden and his profile graphic ranges from 2d to 3k.

Before the game he had reviewed my previous games in order to find some weaknesses which he could exploit. Though this is not exactly illegal, punishing this mistakes doesn't prove to have a better understanding of the game if you have just learnt them in your preparation for that concrete game. But if we add this to his suspiciously unexpected disconnection in the middle of a L&D situation... well...

Move 45: the hane at R5 isn't good for black. See the game in order to find out how to punish black for it.

Move 53: white leaves the server. He got disconnected for a couple of minutes. Suspiciously, it is exactly in the middle of this silly life-and-death problem where black can't do anything but die.

Move 65: not exactly this move, but after the lost of the corner, I'm forced to turn the game into a moyo based one if I want to retain some remote possibilities of winning.

Move 79: The intention of this stones is to split white into two and let white decide which side to save. Unfourtunatelly, I end up in bad shape and this allows white to exploit that weakness later on with move 102.

Move 93: Who reads better?

Move 115: a nice sample of dual purpose move. It attempts to capture the white group from N7 while constructing a barrier for my moyo. In the end, white finds a gap with move 128 and my moyo is severely reduced.

Move 162: Black's bottom group can be killed and white plays tenuki.

Move 175: Black attempts to create a threat for a snapback and, just after realising that it doesn't work because white can capture at H8, white fails to see it and defends.

Move 249: Black removes one point from white's territory after he has passed.

All in all, the strenght of my opponent still remains unkown. How would the game have been if he hadn't reviewed mine? What would have happened if he hadn't left the server? Would he have lost on time? Would I have won? Would he have killed the bottom group?

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TIG 2008: Defeated by a 1k (what else did you expect?)

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:47:45 -0500

On monday I played the second game of the TIG 2008 tournament, against a 1k, the highest rank in my group; therefore this is the toughest opponent I'm to face during this tournament.

Before the game, my opponent told me he had seen this blog. Once warned, I decided not to make the Kobayashi openning, a few seconds before skamus announced that I was playing as white according to the tournament directors. In the real game, black tried to make a sort of Kobayashi openning, which I answered with a short pincer: complicating the game only makes it worse for the weakest player.

We both made some good moves and I made some good blunders all over the board, but managed to get a big moyo on the left side. During the middle game you'll see one of my groups struggling to survive and in the end, a nice ko upper left (though I knew the sequence to survive, I didn't expect him to go for the ko).

All in all, I lost by "only" 13.5 points.

If you click on the continue reading, you'll see the game in EidoGo.

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TIG 2008: Kobayashi Fuseki

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:04:00 -0500

Last week I was forced to play against the Kobayashi fuseki, which is some sort of the mini chinese openning. Here you have the traditional sequence:

In fact, I liked the way the game developed for my opponent after Kobayashi's, so I decided to give it a try on my next game.

Today I played my first game in the Ibero-American Tournament 2008, against Hugo Scolnik. He was listed as a 1k in the registration process, but his currently unstable KGS level placed him near myself, at 5k.

After Black 5, white can answer at A, B for deffensive moves, make a low pincer at C, or ignore the threat and play D in order to avoid black finishing the sequence. What Black really desires is to get lots of influence at the bottom of the board, so moves which make him strong here (most attach-josekis) are welcomed as well as an approach at E.

In the actual game, white made a single-space jump and I made the proper extension to K4. Then he made an invasion exactly in the middle of the right side and I didn't know how to answer it properly, but I managed to get a decent result.

All in all, it was a very interesting game, involving an almost-seki where I finally decided to play safely and avoid the ko, one too-late invasion on a corner, and a huge yose blunder. Even then, after these mistakes I managed to retain some of the advantatge I had won in the middlegame and finally won by 0.5 points (lucky man).

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10th Ibero-american Tournament

nospam@example.com (Alejo) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:36:39 -0500

The 10th Ibero-american Tournament starts this week. I expected there to be just a few dozens of players, but the final list of participants consist of 138 players, whose strengths range from Fernando Aguilar to low double-digit kyus. The tournament will be held in KGS and IGS and the inscription is already closed, in fact, if you speak Spanish you'd already be aware of this tournament through the famous Go-Prat, and if you don't speak Spanish or Portuguese, you won't be allowed to participate in this championship.

In order to make the pairings possible and somewhat decent there are 3 vars which create for different groups: stronger than 1d, between 1k and 6k, from 7k to 14k and weaker than 14k (according to KGS level). The tournament will consist in 8 rounds, played once a week, and the time settings will be faster than I usually play: 10 minutes and byo-yomi of 15 minutes per 25 moves.

Despite my last defeats in KGS, my rank has been stablished at 6k and, therefore, I will possibly suffer the consequences of being the weakest player of a group where I shouldn't be. On the other hand, this is a great opportunity to improve my level and learn from the ones who are stronger than me.

I'll keep you informed as the tournament goes by.

`[361 points = Go \| http://www.361points.com/blog/] (by [Sorin Gherman])`
`[Alejo's Tenuki \| http://www.alejostenuki.com/blog/] (9k KGS, partially a videoblog)[RSS Feed\|http://alejostenuki.com/blog/feeds/index.rss2]`
`- [Ava's Go Journey \| http://go-journey.blogspot.com] (14k KGS, starts out at 18k) [RSS Feel\|http://go-journey.blogspot.com/atom.xml]`
`[Baduk und Sprache \| http://baduk.at]: [maruseru]'s blog, in german`
`[ChiyoDad Learns Go \| http://chiyodad.blogspot.com] (8k KGS, blog starts at unranked) [RSS Feed\|http://chiyodad.blogspot.com/atom.xml]`
`[Contemplations on Go \| http://grandyan.blogspot.com/] ([GrandYan]'s blog, starts at 1d)`


`[FlameBlade's: Board Mirroring the Soul \| http://www.flamingstones.blogspot.com] (dan level)`
`[frankiii's blog \| http://frankiii.blogspot.com/] (18k, blog starts at 21k) [RSS Feed\|http://frankiii.blogspot.com/atom.xml]`
`[Go Around \| http://5around.blogspot.com/] (Photos from Italian and some European Tournaments, in Italian)`
`- [Go4Go.net Go News \| http://www.go4go.net/v2/modules/news/] [RSS Feed \| http://www.go4go.net/v2/backend.php]`
`[Go Game In Russia \| http://go.weiqi.ru/] [RSS Feed\|http://go.weiqi.ru/rss]`
`- [A Go Player \| http://goplayer.blogspot.com/] (15k, blog starts at 24k)`
`[Igo Report\|http://igoreport.blogspot.com/] (by Nacho Cernuda, 4d in Spanish)`
`[Jon Boley\|http://myspace.com/spazzy_j] (6d, blogging from Seoul, Korea)`
`[Kami no Itte\|http://kaminoitte.com/blog/] (blog by [Codexus]) [RSS Feed \| http://kaminoitte.com/dotclear/rss.php]`
`- [Kikashi \| http://kikashi.blogspot.com] (Learning Experiments in the Game of Go)`
`[Kouseis World \| http://kouseisworld.blogspot.com] (1k, German Blog about Go)`
`- [Malweth's Go Blog \| http://www.tsumego.net/blog] (9k, blog starts at 18k)`
`[Maths and Weiqi...with a British Accent \| http://mathsandweiqi.blogspot.com]`
`- [Mr Ooijer Blogs \| http://blogger.xs4all.nl/rongen17/] Jan van Rongens Blog [RSS Feed\|http://blogger.xs4all.nl/rongen17/Rss.aspx]`
`[Nachtrabe's Baduk Blog\|http://nachtsbaduk.blogspot.com/] (8k, [nachtrabe's\|nachtrabe] baduk blog, formerly on SL)`
`[NannyOgg's Shodan Challenge Blog \| http://shodan-challenge.blogspot.com/] [RSS Feed\|http://shodan-challenge.blogspot.com/atom.xml]`
`[Nexik Baduk School\| http://www.baduk.nexik.net/] (Dan level)`
`- [rayen's Go blog during his fulltime study in Go\| http://www.progamed.com] (dan level)`
`[Polish Go\| http://polishgo.blogspot.com/] (Dan level)`
`- [A River of Stones \| http://bodhiwater.blogspot.com/] [RSS Feed \| http://feeds.feedburner.com/ARiverOfStones]`
`- [Rob's Go Blog \| http://waykay.blogspot.com] [RSS Feed\|http://waykay.blogspot.com/atom.xml] [RobFerguson]'s Go Blog`
`- [The Shodan Year \| http://the-shodan.blogspot.com/] Ash's improvement log during the BGS's Shodan Challenge program.`
`[Think, strive, good luck \| http://think2improve.blogspot.com/] Jayme Fosa`
`[A Shugyosha's Journey \|http://www.bodhiwater.blogspot.com/] (29k, blog starts at 30k) [RSS Feed\|http://bodhiwater.blogspot.com/atom.xml]`
`- [Snakeeater on Go \| http://snakeeatergo.blogspot.com/] (4k)`
`- [Studying Weiqi in China \| http://www.gostudent.blogspot.com/]`
`[study at Myongji University in Korea \| http://www.jens.baduk4u.de] Jens Henker 4d, in german and english`
`[TheKro's Nest \| http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/~skroon/personal/blog/] [Steve]'s blog (1k)`
`- [toastcrumb's Go Blog\|http://shodansummer.blogspot.com/] (12k)`
`- [Tsumego.net - The game of Go (Weiqi) \| http://www.tsumego.net/blog/index.php] [RSS Feed \| http://www.malweth.net/nucleus/atom.php?blogid=2]`
`[Wolvie's Go Blog\|http://wolviego.blogdrive.com/] (30k)`
`[World news about game of Go\|http://go-news.blogspot.com/]`
`- [xed_over\|http://www.xanga.com/go_player] (9 kyu, began blog at 12 kyu)`
`[IgoBlog\|http://www.igochile.cl/blog/] News in Spanish`
`* [ziggy's go club]`