in this blog I will describe my way to become a 1 dan (according to KGS) in the game of Go. My current plan is to play one serious game each day which I'm going to post here. For testing purposes, I'll show a recent game I've played.
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sept [5k\]: hello gg
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sept [5k\]: thanks
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