This game left me rather confused - I felt ahead for most the game but could never really capitalise on the weaknesses left behind by my opponent.

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It's been a while, but we brought Jeff back for more lectures for OSR :)

The first one will take place July 4th 4:30pm CET.

You have one week to vote for the lecture topic and you have two votes. Feel free to suggest alternative lecture topics by an…

For the last round, unfortunately I was paired with a 2kyu. I don't like those matches were you pretty much only can lose, since you are expected to win. On the other hand, it is good training to deal with that kind of pressure and I better get used…

Remember when I talked about getting a good night sleep? Well... forget about that. For some reason (which certainly was not the accomodation) I again had a sleepless night, waking up every now and then. Not quite ideal I would say.

Nevertheless, I …

Game 3 was the battle of the unbeaten top-players (really feels weird to call myself that, but I guess I cannot hide that fact from myself anymore - at least in normal weekend tournaments I have to start going in with that confidence and not put mys…

On to board 1, where the 5dan awaited. I was still tired, but I was also really pumped up and managed to stay focused throughout most of the game.

Early on, I took the plan to build the top while attacking a weak group. My opponent decided to enter …

Hello again. I just played another tournament last weekend, and although not quite as successful for me compared to the last one, I still hit a milestone and learned a few valuable lessons from it. (Besides experience, I also did gain some more rati…

In round 5, I faced a 1dan I had played a year ago in round 1 of the same tournament. On board two, my first and second round opponents of this year faced each other to determine the top 3 spots. Shortly before the game, there was an interesting com…

For the first game on sunday, it was time to welcome the only other unbeaten dan-player to "my" board 1. At least that is what it felt like contrary to round 3, where I felt like being the guest to my opponents board 1.

My opponent was "only" a 1dan…

Round 3. From the outside in, this must have already looked like the tournament deciding game. My opponent had already beaten my second round opponent in the first game as well as one of the 3dans (as mentioned, in a really quick game due to a huge…

So I had just won my first game with a bit of luck. Since my opponent had used so little time, I was not the last one playing (for the only time in this tournament - even though I had much better time management, did not mean that I wasnt using it a…

Hello everyone!

To celebrate my first ever EGF-tournament win last weekend, I decided to write a little report about it and share my games (as far as I could remember them correctly ^^), thoughts and feelings during that time.

I arrived in a good me…

Game played 12 hours ago against HelcioAlex (Yu on KGS)

Yeah, I have to agree with darkronin. The shift in the tone of the conversation was clearly graspable and I felt it was a real pitty that the previous, light hearted conversation got turned on its head completely - and silenced the newcomer. I would…

D12 forces white to choose one connection or the other - each has specific weaknesses that black can then exploit (later, knowing how white responded). In combination with for example a move like B13, this can become a very potent destruction of whi…