Since I posted a game to be analyzed, and it very kindly was even though it was my 2nd post, I might as well introduce myself.

I learned the rules of Go a few years ago, alternatingly getting excited and bored with it, mostly bored until about a year ago when something clicked and I started playing more seriously. Along the way I discovered these forums and started lurking here. (World class forum lurker here... )

The Malkovitch games have really helped keep my interest in Go, when I was 20-15kyu I would read those threads as a form of entertainment. These days I actually look at the diagrams :sigh: Thank you all participants for that, especially Magicwand.

I don't have any real life opponents around here, though I do own a board - Go players in East Africa where are you? - I am trying to teach a few people around me, but I don't think I am a very good teacher. My current strategy is to teach atari-Go and the word atari - because hatari means danger in Swahili. I had one very memorable afternoon with my five-year-old nephew by playing a stone and saying a simple reason for it (I attack you here, I make my territory here, I run away here etc etc) and he would reply with his own reason. It was actually a reasonable game - while it lasted.

Welcome! You may be the first player on the boards who is from Africa. If so, you complete our representation of (well inhabited) continents

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I think quantumf is from Africa. But regardless, welcome to the forum!

I remember we had someone from South Africa and one from Zimbabwe, but both haven't posted here for quite some time.

@mafidufa: Welcome to the boards.

Good to know there are fellow continentals around. South Africa seems to be the only African country with a Go association? There was a census linked somewhere online, I can't seem to find it now, that mentioned internet players in Kenya. Unfortunately it didn't say what server...

Well, you're welcome even if you aren't the first.

Charles Matthews taught a number of players in Uganda, and it sounds like the game has taken hold: http://www.gogod.co.uk/NewInGo/Uganda_2.htm. Of course that's probably quite a distance for you.

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Welcome!

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