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Hopefully, here I will chronicle my advancement in the game of Go to the rank of 1d (shodan) and beyond. I started playing online on KGS at the end of last August, and I am currently at 3k, so my previous goal of attaining 1d in a year now looks impossible. My progress up to 11k was very fast, and I improved about a rank a month from 11k to 4k, but there I hit a wall, and it took over 2 and a half months to scale it. Thus, my new goal is to reach 1d by Christmas this year. This will require a somewhat faster pace than I have had since April, as it took very long to get past 4k, and after 5 weeks or so at 3k, I am still less than halfway to 2k.

If you're curious about the picture in the heading, it contains 4 peaks at the center of the Teton Range. From left to right, they are Middle Teton, Grand Teton, Mt. Owen, and Teewinot. I took the photo two thursdays ago from a turnout on the road east of the Snake River, in Grand Teton National Park. I found the mountains were very hard to photograph; the grandeur of the scene that you see when you are there is easily lost in photos. This photo came out quite well, especially when cropped, leaving it much wider than tall.

Nominations have opened for the 2008 Gamefaqs Character Contest, and once the bracket comes out, you can probably expect a lot of posts related to the contest. Go should remain the main subject of this blog, however.