tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414364445186385378.post-31176373988697905302008-03-11T15:25:00.000-07:002008-03-11T15:33:34.143-07:00<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Well, I haven't been playing in a long time, and quite frankly, I thought I never would again. But then it happened: last Saturday I met an old buddy (who is by the way 1k now…) from my go-club at a bar and we got into talking. Anyway, at some point in the conversation he pulls out his portable goban and asks if I cared playing him. Well, as I didn't have anything better to do that evening I agreed and we played.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>Of course, I was crushed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">But playing him I realized how much I had missed Go actually. Thinking back, I realized that a lot of the things that went wrong in the past few months might have not been so bad if I had still played Go, for the game had always made me calm and balanced.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Anyway, I decided starting to play again, and realized once more that I had forgotten much but not all. Well, I started a new nick on KGS and I won't be using my old one before I made 9k again, for it would simply be too embarrassing… <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Anyway, thanks, Pascal, for being there that evening and reintroducing me to one of my greatest passions!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Florian Raschehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12637684926081278850noreply@blogger.com