Irish Go Congress

Posted on 2007-03-03 by John

As I’m sure anyone reading this already knows, the annual Irish Go Congress is on in Dublin next weekend, 9th-11th Mar. (In case it slipped by someone, details can be found at the IGA site.)

As many of the Cork players will be in attendance, the regular local sessions won’t be running. Given that St Patrick’s is the following weekend, I imagine that things will probably not resume until the weekend after that. So enjoy the break, or use it to study up and crush your rivals upon your return ;) There’ll be a reminder sent out to the mailing list before meetings resume.

Good luck to those who are traveling to Dublin to compete! Hopefully someone will think to keep a few game records this year…

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Ratings Updated

Posted on 2006-09-30 by John

I’ve updated the rating estimates in the People section. In case anyone was wondering, the club ratings have for some time been based on the KGS system, which has recently been overhauled. Where a player had a solid KGS rating, that was used. Where a player did not, his current handicaps against other players with solid ratings were used to estimate one for club use. This (in theory) has the advantage of giving some idea of relative strength compared to players outside the club, while not forcing members to play online. (In any case, most people know their strength relative to the others they play near their own level, so they don’t even need to worry about any of this.) Of course, it’s not totally accurate, but it generally works out within a stone or two. If anyone has a better idea, let me know.

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online sgf viewing

Posted on 2006-09-28 by John

You can now run thorugh some of Lucas’ recent games under the sgf section on the sidebar to the right. Consider this to be in beta atm. A clearer selection and a download archive are on the to do list.

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KGS September Tournament

Posted on 2006-09-01 by John

This 13×13 tournament is now open for registration. You can find details and sign up here.

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Official Launch

Posted on 2006-08-29 by John

The site is now fit for public consumption and will shortly be sending out emails to anyone I think might be interested. And if you’re reading this, you probably are. So go register and comment, criticize, complain… whatever you feel comfortable with.

Kudos to Brend for his continued work on this project. And while the two of us kickstarted the thing, anyone is welcome to submit ideas for (or even actual) content, be they articles, photos, game records, graphics or whatever.

See you all at the goban, be it real or virtual.

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online play

Posted on 2006-08-28 by admin

I am trying to organize a night for the club to meet on KGS. If you are interested please let me know what time and day you would like.

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Countdown

Posted on 2006-08-27 by John

Now that the site is online, I’d like to make a request for ideas on content, links, layout, etc. Anything obvious I’ve forgotten? Anything cool that should be added? Anything that seems to be broken for your browser? If there is, post a comment or drop me an email. (You will need to register an account to post a comment, but it’s not hard.)

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