Mass Go Club
Last night I went up to Davis Square to play at the Mass Go Club. Being an unfortunate sap with a job, I had to leave my apartment about 6:40 to go up there, and sat in a ton of traffic; in fact it took 60 minutes to travel all of 7 miles. Parking, thankfully, was relatively easy.
I was pleased to see the attendance was good (admittedly Tuesday night is their busy night), with around 10-15 people playing simultaneously. Back in NYC, a busy night was about 8 people playing, and that was a predominantly older crowd. This club seems a little more decentralized - there’s no club manager who is there running it every night, since members are given the combination lock on the door. As a result, you have to check if anyone is interested in playing on a given night (except Tuesday / Friday), but with a 30-60 minute drive ahead of me, this isn’t such a bad thing.
I played two games: one against Adam, an AGA 5kyu player who started a few months before me, and one against Walter, who is at least AGA 3dan. Generally I think I played fairly well, considering I haven’t been playing much, but clearly I need to review my life & death problems, and some of my fighting tactics. I’ve been reviewing ‘Learn to Play Go Vol. 5′, so back to one of Davies’ books after that.