Hi all!

I'm from Valparaiso, Chile, and i'm gonna tell you my story...

I found about go two and a half years ago looking for a subject to work on my master thesis. My teacher handed me a paper with a survey about AI in games, which was my main interest. Even though I was planning to work on some 'modern' type of game (rts or fps) i couldn't get past the second page where they mentioned this asian game that could not be played well by computers. I was inmediately interested.

I went to the computer to read about the rules and fell in love with the game the second i saw that picture in wikipedia ^^

Later that afternoon i had ping pong trainning, but i had enough time before it began, so I decided to go change my clothes in the "fancy" dressing room which was far away from my usual path. To my big surprise, walking along this route i shouldn't be walking, i see a small paper in a window... it read: "Go Club". (fate... anyone?)
There were only three members, but i didn't miss a meeting ever since.

Two and a half years later we have 14 regular members and we are also starting to teach on saturdays in a small "oriental arts institute" downtown. There we have 5 members so far, but hopefully will get bigger soon. There are no other go clubs here, so we have a lot of work to do!

=) Nice to meet you all.

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I'm in igolocal. If you are ever visiting Chile, drop by!

Sounds awesome - and welcome to the forums

Welcome, always good to hear about other initiatives going on!

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a1h1 [1d]: You just need to curse the gods and defend.
Good Go = Shape.
Associação Portuguesa de Go

Howdy, and welcome! Loved your story and I'm glad you found the forum.

Welcome to the forums!

And great to hear stories like that! Inspiring for all of us.

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KGS: schultz [?].

Welcome!

Great story =)

Welcome.