The ancient game of Go is perhaps the most sublime ever devised, aesthetically and intellectually, and as a paradigm of imponderable complexities arising from the most simple premises. I got my first Go board at age fifteen at the Japanese pavilion of the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadow. I enjoyed the game in an ignorant sort of way until about twenty years ago when I read The Master of Go
by Yasunari Kawabata . With a few insights gleaned from the Master's last game, I found over the years that I was usually able to prevail over my two available opponents. Sadly, our little trio of players was widely scattered. We played only a few dozen games, and fewer and fewer as the decades passed.
When last year (1996) I hooked into the internet, I slowly realized its potential for playing Go. I joined the
American Go Association,
who directed me to the
International Go Server (IGS), which on 19 August 1997 I also joined -
Great joy! Now I play with people from all over the world. I have played more games in a week than I used to play in a decade, and I am learning more with each game. In my first month on the IGS I achieved a rank of 23 kyo (23k*) and am playing in my first tournament.
If you'd like a match,
find me on the IGS -
I play as bbwms -
or schedule a game via
For an excellent introduction to Go on the internet,
see
Mindy McAdams.
nuri.net Go client servers
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