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<2010-07-07>
E3A goes to EGC2010!
Come meet me in Tampere, Finland, where I will be at your service for the whole two weeks :)
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<2010-04-01>
I will be drawing and selling t-shirts, minis etc. at the Korean Ambassador Cup in Prague on May 1-2! For more information about the tournament, check out the button top left :) Here's the poster!
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<2010-01-24>
Now there is the option to comment directly on strips, related art and guest art, so feel free to drop your observations and ideas!
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<2010-01-23>
guest art section works again! for all those that haven't submitted anything, you are welcome to do so! If you have send me art in the past few months and it isn't in the gallery, please send it again, I might have lost it ^^'
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<2010-01-23>
added a new button, linking to my DeviantArt gallery - for all those curious what I draw besides this webcomic :)
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<2009-12-09>
Website undergoing major rework. Related artwork and Guest art sections have been relaunched in what I hope is a more user-friendly appearance. Stay tuned for more :)
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<2009-01-09>
FOUR new related artworks!
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The board-shatterer has a twin: the clock-shatterer, who hits the clock as hard as he can.
I played a tournament game against a clock-shatterer, he made so much noise that people around us were soon calling for silence. (The clock itself was in good shape, no reason to use force.) |
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<2010-07-13 12:48> |
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While I was at the EGC in Gronningen I stayed in a house with (now a friend of mine) Lars, a 2 dan from Germany (that time he was the german wrestling youth champion).
One evening we played a game and I asked him why he is placing the stones so loud. He answered that it would give him some kind of confidence and that he could smack the stones with such a strength that they'd break. Ofc I didnt believe him... another 10 minutes after the talk, nearly 20 stones were broken into pieces.
Remember: Never mess with Lars, not on the board and for gods sake absolutly not off the board. |
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<2010-07-13 03:47> |
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I sometimes find myself being the commentator! :-p |
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<2010-07-13 03:27> |
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You are doing such a great job... Just last month I thought about create an website like this... Even wrote some script for the first comics, but I didn't move on... You did, and you are awesome... Congratulations and keep with this nice job! |
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<2010-07-12 22:09> |
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Great, as usual! |
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<2010-07-10 10:24> |
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Lol, so far I`m a manowar/contortionist/commentator/(occasional)shatterer type XD |
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<2010-07-09 19:26> |
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LOL there is an 8d in my area who is an 'Absentee' player. It really ticks off some of his opponents, too xD |
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It is great to follow in the comments the various sighting reports of the most peculiar behaviors of go playing people, and here are three that strike me as rather common, in one way or another:
the BOARD-SHATTERER
A behavior glorified by some as the epitome of the self-confident go master, criticized by some as the most obvious opponent-intimidation strategy, and, and this is a personal view, a behavior that makes me want to hide under the table seeking cover (I got hit by a stone at near bullet-velocity once because someone who likes to play this way had slippery fingers.)
No real shattered boards were reported to me as of now, does not mean that it never happened though.
the ABSENTEE
Known to almost all go players, the "wanderer", alternatively. This player is curious what is happening at the other boards, eager to take pictures of the players during the game, has a severe nicotine addiction or likes to pace around to calm himself - the reasons are numerous and highly variable. If two of these get paired up at tournaments, it is possible they actually meet at the board for the first time after the fuseki has been played already.
the COMMENTATOR
Less common at tournaments, and if it is the case, tends to restrict his vocal assertion of the game to occasional sighs or vague mumbling. Some specimen do not elaborate only on the current game on the board, topics can range from the story of his/her life to general remarks completely unrelated to anything at hand.