Report about Go History in an area of germany

A written down memory about Go in Mecklenburg Vorpommen by Uwe Richter and others (but don´t know who all; translation by Yunyuki)

a picture to set the right mood Hi all, as I was thinking about what to write next I was asking friends of mine about Go material or stuff I could write an report about. I got this link Mecklenburg-Vorpommen Go history It´s a german written story about how go started in Mecklenburg- Vorpommen. I thought it might be interesting , which is the reason I am going to translate and post it here. I hope you will all have fun with the translation i did (it might be not 100% perfect as I am native German, so I apologize about any wrong translations). http://www.escape.de/~capella/go/RoGoGe.txt The specific time of the first time playing go in Rostock a town in the north of Germany is unknown. The estimated time is around 1972. That time Eberhard Perlick a doctor who lived in Eberswalde who was from an group chess players of the HSG University Rostock explained the rules of the game called Baduk to other people. After a short time he did find 5 people. Out of the 5 Hans-Eckart Lüthke is the one most active among the 5 for me known right now to this day. They went on a trip to jena and played on a tournament there. It was back then a really big highlight for the go players. The chess section of the group with Doctor Perlick at its core, was gone, after many people moved away due to finishing studying at the University. A new start for go was around the 80´s . The fist Go groupd was founded by Dr. Poldi Winkler in the winter of 85/86 in Rostock. It had 3 members at the start but 1 more member was found really quickly. First they played in the green Monster "grünen Ungeheuer", which was on the opposite site of the train station. It was also the first notice of go in Rostock by the the local go newspaper  "Go-Mitteilungen der DDR" or short GoM. Next is a row of archievements of different local go players at tournaments. Important notice should be that around that time the strength  were from 1k-27k. After a bit of personal history of  Uwe Richter and his go life until he met the go-group in Rostock in 1988. In the newspapers "Ostsee-Zeitung" on the 30./31.05 was the notice for a go tournament for beginners and more advanced ones in the area of go. At that time  a 5dan Malte Schuster was coming to that tournament as well. The tournament was a great success. Uwer himself didnt play in the tournament but he played many simultan games with other players and learned the fun of go and its endless deepth and its elegance. His most vivid memory about go was in Hamburg. There was a trunk man in the room was asking a funny question and then started a game with Uwe. Uwe wanted to give him a handy cap of 9 stones. But the  trunk man was a bit faster than him and grabbed the white stones and said its fine like this. As the game went on, Uwe was crushed by the trunk man who finally showed his true colours as a go player from Hamburg called Michael Katscher 5dan. Michael and a friend of him visited  around that time often the Baduk evenings in Rostock. After the home of this go group at the"BSG Agrochemie" was dismissed, the go-group had to move many times until it was not longer seen for a long time. Around the 90´s was a second wave of go players lead by Heinz Postulka in the town "Schwerin", where the second go group in Mecklenburg Vorpommern was founded to the knowledge of the writter Uwe Richter.

Offline Reviews

Go Offline- Reviews

Hi everyone, first of all i have to apologise for not writing the last 3 months.... I had exams to take at university and  because of that my time for writing in the blog got cut to trying to burn everything into my brain needed for the exams. Secondly even if its a bit late : happy new year =) I hope everyone had a good new start into the year and more luck with exams than me =))))) Today i am presenting an review of an student of mine called yokohana. I hope you all will enjoy the review and that yokohana will learn much about the game with the review (PS. in the video beginning with the the right lower problem, i had some technical problems, so some of what i said is missing in it)

	GoVideo Game review
	I treid to make a game review of european players. This game review is including 4 parts a 10 minutes and focused on special parts of the game. Enjoy

Episode 3 of the Yun School

Epsiode 3  Basic 4 principles of go 29k

Hi Everyone :-) I am sorry for the late update of this weeks lesson. I hope you will enjoy it and have fun :-) And as for the commentaries: I tried to use metaphors, which of course are related to war history . One reason is Baduk is a war game and  a territorial game, which  has a lot to do with basic human instincts. I hoped to explain it easier by using common things as comparison to other examples. I hope you all are to understand what I said firstly in what I said and secondly in content of the video :-) Your Admin Yunyuki Kirigaya aka Kiriya

Yun go school Episode 2

	Episode 2  30k basic principles
	Hi everyone, as promised it´s the second Episode of the Yun School. This time I explained very basic principles on how to play on the big board. For starters it is better to play first on the small 9x9 board to ensure the understanding of a living group and a dead group and of territory. I hope you will all have fun and learn from this lesson, with regards your admin Yunyuki Kirigaya aka Kiriya

Music list

Music for playing go (my own favourits)

a suitable picture for a topic I like Which music do you all hear, while playing go ? For me it´s a more or less a routine of everything I like, but I do hear certain music before any important matches again and again. Of course I do hear a certain pattern of music while playing as well :-) and so I thought, that introducing my list of music as a trial example for others to use or to make use of the music list system I made up on my own. =) be survivor by the group zz - it´s the song I always hear before every game  for 2 years (I started checking ways on mental pressure for tournaments and how to deal with it after I played a really bad tournament at that time; 0-5) After i get into battle mode, I will greet my opponent, say "Let´s have a nice game" and then place my first stone (if I am black) or start listening to music while taking a deep breath. The next music will be a rather calm piece (a hot heart and a cool head), because i get excited easily and then I start using my head less and rely on my emotions to much. it´s mae o muite -  from Hikaru no Go. After that i will repeatedly listen to this one until my mood swings. If that happens i will change the music  to get myself back into shape. the list of music i usually choose - Mikansei stride Hyouka op. 2 - kokoro no Senritsu from tari tari - Eyeshild 21 ost - code name Eyeshild 21 - Hikaru no Go Ost- BGM - Fairy Tail Ost- Past story -Ano hana Ost- Secret Base piano version - Tengen toppa Gurren Lagann Ost- Thrust Through the Heavens with Your Spirit! - Sword Art online  Ost- main theme

Episode 1

Neues Projekt/new project Series

Hi everyone, Moyunfuten enterprises presents it´s newest project :-) The  commented pro game talking time. As we thought which "Theme" as collaborated material we should use to make a video about, it was already clear that the olny thing which one can get excited about is either joseki (for me at least^^) or Professional games. And as it happens we have enough with commentaries which only feature the only one move solution to them^^. So we will show the solution and present our own thoughts to it as well (as we are still 1-2k players some of the comments which we made might not be on spot, but we hope you all will understand this and give us feedback about our mistakes as well) Let´s have fun and we hope you all will enjoy the first Episode Your  Baduk+Mentality=Tensai Staff Moin9 (magic9^^) and Yunyuki Kirigaya aka Kiriya

	Whole Board problem 2
	New Problem, new time to get headaches^^. Try to see the whole board and get something that brings you in a advantage postion. http://badukyuki.blogspot.de/p/tsumegos.html

video lessons 1 50k-30k

	Yun school
	50k-30k

Video lessons

Yun-school

That´s Yun-Sensei :-) Hi everyone :-) That´s the first project i told about in the newslatter update. As some know about my profil on kgs, I am giving lessons to kyu players. I myself am only a 1-2k. I have some students which I teach regularly and to let them be able to grow as well when I don´t have time to teach and to let others outside of my school to gain some extra knowledge. I have to say that I am a weak player, but I have a wide range of basic information which I can´t guarantee to be 100% certain, so I will try to difference between what I think and stuff which you can read in books. As I am still knew to making videos and such I hope   you will overlook mystakes or point them out so I can get them straight :-) I welcome critism and comments and I hope especially for my students  (yeah the persons in question should know whom I am speaking to^^) I really hope that the videos will help you get stronger and stronger until you can teach me :-) The first videos are going to be for beginners around 30-20k. I want to show how they can become stronger step by step utilizing the videos and the study System which I made myself for kyu players, used myself to improve and teach others to teach it to others as well. At least I should tell you all that I still take  students but there are  conditions for it: - You have to play against other students - You have to learn with the others together - You have to do the homework given - You have to teach others - and it´s free of charge of course ;-) The videos are all gathered at this Label http://badukyuki.blogspot.de/search/label/Yun-School

I hope you all can enjoy the videos and have fun

sincerly Yunyuki Kirigaya aka Kiriya