Sunday Misc: WTF is up with March, and 12-kyu, baby!

[inverarity]

Spring has apparently arrived. Never mind that mid-March is normally quite cold and residual snowfall is not unknown. But barring a freak cold snap, it looks like I can put away my winter coat until the fall. I mean, today was shorts weather!

We had barely any snow this entire winter. I think there was one day where we actually got some white stuff on the ground, and it was all melted by the next day.

It's global warming, I tell you!

Sunday's go game

I figure I may keep blogging about go as long as my current fixation on the game lasts.



I am more proud than I should be of beating MFOG at the 12-kyu level (I was black), even after my invasion of the upper left corner at the 3-3 point was only semi-successful. (As you can see, I gained a whopping 3 points of territory, though I also denied 12 points to white, but at the cost of 11 stones that I failed to save. So a net gain of... 4 points. An awful lot of effort for such meager results, but still. MFOG just "promoted" me to 12 kyu, which will last until the next time I play it as 12-kyu and (probably) lose. Right now I'm stuck bobbling back and forth in the 12-14 kyu range.

I have no idea what my rank really should be. I need to play more online.

Comments

[ebilgatoloco.livejournal.com]

Are you effing serious? Shorts weather? I was freezing all day!

[tealterror0.livejournal.com]

It's been quite warm in New York, too. Not shorts weather yet, but still.

I need to play more Go myself. Is the program you're using free to download?

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can download it here (http://www.smart-games.com/manyfaces.html). The free version only plays at the dumbest level (18-kyu). Once you get good enough to beat that, you need to pay for the full version to play at higher levels.

[tealterror0.livejournal.com]

$90 is a bit much; I should probably just play online. Speaking of, we should totally play online sometime. :D

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Make a KGS account. :)

[tealterror0.livejournal.com]

Maybe I will. We'll see if I have time this weekend for a game or two. :) [Warning--I'm quite rusty and I never played that much anyway, so you'll likely kick my ass.]

[(Anonymous)]

Shorts, flipflops, break out the hose and wash the winter mud off the horses, suppossed to be 80 in my area tomorrow!

This game looks like something I'd get totally hooked on. I'm afraid to read too much, it'll suck me in

bellanca

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Doooo it! :D

[(Anonymous)]

Currrse Youuu!! This looks awesome. And aggravating. And I haven't found a site that will work with my ipad. Grrr, gonna have to fire up the actual computer. Or find my game fanatic hubby's board but then I'd need a real life human old enough to Not swallow the stones...Although I can probably beat the kids...arg!curses! I need to sleep not read strategies!
bellanca

Go for iPad

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

SmartGo Kifu (http://www.smartgo.com/kifu.htm).

Create a KGS account and we can play online. :)