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Large Avalanche Joseki retest

Monday, 11 May 2009 05:49 | Written by Leonardo Alberto Dal Zovo

I thought that the Large Avalanche Joseki test would have been difficult, but I can say it was a massacre. Even the next test on another variation of the same joseki went quite bad, but a little bit better. Tomorrow the test will be repeated for who got less than 3.5 and who is not going to pass the test, in retribution, will run around the soccer field of the school 10 times.
The only ones to pass the first test (a little bit more than 110 pages) are only Francesco, Him and Ofer, while the second test (around 30 pages) other than them, Sebastian, Luka, Janine and Pedro there's also me.

Last Updated (Monday, 11 May 2009 06:03)

Playing baduk outside and new league

Saturday, 09 May 2009 06:04 | Written by Leonardo Alberto Dal Zovo

Wednesday we started to take outside the playing tables, and a new league was published.

Last Updated (Saturday, 09 May 2009 06:27)

Big surprise on last week league

Tuesday, 05 May 2009 02:27 | Written by Leonardo Alberto Dal Zovo

A bolt from the blue surprised everyone this week in an apparently peaceful league. Yesterday, in the last games before the end of this week's league, Svilen defeated Sebastian becoming the new hero of the school. Gossip is going on, and it seems that Sebastian had booked a flight back to Germany and already went away yesterday night!
All jokes aside, this event made a little bit more sparkling the last part of the games, that maybe lost the starting freshness probably because we already know each other quite well, moves and playing style too. Let's see what extraordinary surprises the league will reserve us!

Last Updated (Tuesday, 05 May 2009 02:34)

First Monday of May, studying and large avalanche test

Monday, 04 May 2009 07:37 | Written by Leonardo Alberto Dal Zovo

Even if in the last weekend it rained a lot, finally we start to breathe summer's air. To annoy this pleasant moment we had a test on over a hundred pages about large avalanche joseki, really heavy going and sometimes difficult to understand because of the questionable translation from korean to english. Results are not yet out, but it seems as it went quite bad for everybody... We will see, but anyway we need to study it again from the beginning!

9x9 Tournament on Saturday

Monday, 04 May 2009 06:52 | Written by Leonardo Alberto Dal Zovo

We played a 9x9 tournament in 4 round without particular time settings Saturday morning. We were divided in different strength groups to decide the correct komi in the games. At the end Gabriel won, Francesco was second, Seul Ki third, Klara fourth and Pavol fifth.

Last Updated (Monday, 04 May 2009 07:20)

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