weiqi competition

2dae was the national day and pesta sukan weiqi competition (dunno what the comp. name means, but who cares). Here was how it went:

Arrival at bishan CC at 1:50pm

1st match: Against this Dunman High girl. She was not that gd i must say and i almost clear-boarded her. Actually, i did but she resigned so it's not considered as clear-board. So, nothing much to say. I expected to beat her and bu chu suo liao, i beat her.

2nd match: Against a Cat High person. He was quite ok. B4 the match began, he was toking about how noob he was as he had onli learnt weiqi for 3/4 years. Well, i think he lied cuz he is definitely not that noob. And I had a real scare at one time cuz he looked like he was winning. I took the risk and invaded his land. SUCCESS!! I managed to take his land away and from den on, it was quite gd as i managed to take his land once again with a shuang huo.

3rd match: Against yet another Cat High person. This one was noober den the other cat high one. Here was how it went: he took black. 1st move: xiao mu, 2nd move: xing wei, 3rd move: xiao mu, 4th move: xing wei. Den, he started to think for almost 2 min b4.... he plays a dian san san. haha. i think he's not really thinking, juz acting to think or maybe even wasting my time cuz the comp's time rule was a bit screwed up. Well, he failed and i won him with ease. He played many wrong moves (actually, i think all his moves were wrong), and i thrashed him. He resigned in the end. This match was a real waste of time. He was almost like thinking 2 min per move and mine was average 10s a move. Ok... it's gd to think but his thinking was useless. I basically used the time he was thinking to think myself n after i had thot thru and he still hadnt move, i had almost a min to play with the seeds or see the other match or even look at the other ppl play omok. i noe that's being arrogant. But if u were in my position, u would also do the same. It was really irritating. esp cuz he would think so long and play a crappy move.

Well, so that ended the comp that day for me. 4 more matches tmr. im raring to go. it's riweiqi's biggest chance of getting a gold cuz onli xiao mo n xun kang came to sec grp for HCI (there are others but all not that pro). The other HCI ppl all go open grp.

Ok. den, i went for jiang. 2dae's jiang lesson was rather boring. I reached jiang at 715 cuz i had weiqi comp and there was no point going home and coming out again. It was rather boring and i sat there for 30 min b4 wanen came, followed by yun hui and den gilbert. we did suoduanchangwen 2dae and it was rather boring. Ok. I did learn some new things but it was definitely not very interesting. So, nothing much to talk about. yup. gtg. tmr still have to go for weiqi comp so have to slp earlier. BYE

Patrick