I think this was my first game on KGS. I am black. My opponent was actually a friend of mine from college. He had been playing for a year, and I had just started.

It looks like I also didn't totally understand the ranking system at this point in time, considering the questions I asked him about his rank.

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be immersed

hmmmm i cant seem to find my old games.... Where in the world could they have gone....

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I'm thinking...

the KGS archives here

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Laurens
Go school: freegame's Teaching School
Author of: The Next Move a book for 15-3kyu players.

ok... oldest game I have.... second game I ever played on KGS... so about my second game game of Go too. I never played on a smaller board... started on 19x19.




And my first game with a solid rank... of 29k... omg that is sooo long ago.



one of the first games that ended with scoring....

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My actual first games are lost in the mists of time, but my first KGS game might be kind of interesting because it is one of the very first games played on KGS, according to the KGS server history. It was played on March 24th, 2000, over a month before KGS (then Igoweb) was made public.

before the kgs was made public

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长考出臭棋.

dfan, that game is awesome. I played through it slowly just so I could read all of the comments from you guys working on testing/debugging the software!

Suji -- you gave me an easy one. The ear-reddening game.

Here's my first KGS recorded game:



I'm pretty sure I'd played igowin quite a few times, and I had played a friend of mine in person 2-3 times (he's the one that taught me how to play).

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KGS: schultz [?].

My first recorded 9x9 from 28.03.2004, after I learned Go about approximately three weeks before:



and my first recorded 19x19


The funny thing is that -- even tough I understand more -- I still feel like a beginner to this game...

- Mic

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Go is easy: don't play bad moves.

So you're partially responsible for the famous (some would say horrible) green color? Just kidding, it was a joy to read the comments

- Mic

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Go is easy: don't play bad moves.

My first 9x9 and my first 19x19 ever:




I didn't know anything about ranks, time systems, or groups with eyes.
I especially like the result of my first 19x19: W+367.50

I'm pretty sure the green was already there and I just wanted the margin that it represented to be extended a little. But maybe it was my fault!

You are correct.

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My plan to become an SDK is here.

It was quite fascinating to see the comments in the dfan vs wms game. It really gives you an insight into the debugging of KGS.

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We don't know who we are; we don't know where we are.
Each of us woke up one moment and here we were in the darkness.
We're nameless things with no memory; no knowledge of what went before,
No understanding of what is now, no knowledge of what will be.

My first KGS game, on the day I learned to play, against the person that taught me the game:
(Comments were in Finnish, but I translated them)


Also, found one that I thought was funny at the time.. 5 months later, after learning a little bit, I put up a game offer on a guest account with a note like "Just fun free game" and I got a challenge from someone without a rank, figured I'd prolly beat him easy. I didn't and some time later I ran into his public lectures and realized that was the guy.

Wow these games are horible I'm balmung and these are the earliest I could find

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“I’m here to play go and chew bubble gum, and I’m all out of gum”- misquoted duke nukem