I drove to Tampere to spend a few days there. I have arranged for the house to be watched and the flowers to be watered. The local go club did meet after all despite it being the Midsummer weekend and

I can feel how it's almost summer. It won't take long before the trees will have fully grown leaves. It was about 17 C out there in the afternoon. Later in the evening it got a bit cooler but I was fine

Playing Go in the harbour again.

I've only made 67 posts on Steem. Would you believe that? I had forgotten we had a Go club day today, and was coming home from walking with Ninnu, as I saw @MarkkuJantunen enter our building. It was sheer

Our go-club had what is called a pikkujoulu (= "little Christmas", or a pre-Christmas party) tonight. @gamer00 brought most of the food and drink. It was basically a normal club evening with

It occurred to me after publishing my post that I could make B&W versions of the photo. I'd appreciate it if you told me which versions you prefer.

I drove to Tampere today. I visited the go club in the evening. The annual Tampere go championship tournament is a double elimination cup that I innovated and started while I was still living there. Two

This post is a bit of a disjointed ramble. But here goes. One of my games. My opponent is making a game recording on his phone. The local go club had a sauna evening hosted by one of the club members.

A game of mine and Antti's We've stopped going to the harbour because the weather is no longer warm enough. We meet in a room in the building where @gamer00 lives. His sons showed up, too. Only Miro was

It was Wednesday afternoon again. @gamer00 suggested that we play indoors this time because there had been showers. There were no showers forecast for the evening and I persuaded him to have the club meeting

@gamer00 has been on a hiatus from Steem for over a week. After finishing his OPED threesixtyfive, he said part of it is he has a bit of a shortage of ideas of what to write about. I suggested he start

Jaro had returned from his holiday and we had our go club meeting at the harbour as usual. I had to take the bus to the harbour this time. Turns out there were floods in the city because of torrential

This photograph sums up what this post is all about. After Antti had arrived at our usual meeting point, he phoned me and I drove there. We played a game and waited for Jaro to come. There was a cloud

We drove home from Tampere today. Before leaving I dropped by Hervanta, a large southern suburb of Tampere. I spent most of my childhood, youth and young adulthood there. In fact, I think I was 38 when

I played one game against @gamer00 and a couple of games against Antti, 1 dan. I was white in the game below. No komi. By the way, the board is made by @gamer00. It is made of leather. He can tell you

Pub Konttori Finns, how would you translate this into English? Eight people turned up (not everyone in is in the picture). Good times!

Lähden tänä iltapäivänä Tampereelle ja viivyn kolmisen päivää. Vien ensin tyttären mummolaan ja sen jälkeen menen peli-iltaan Olutravintola Konttoriin Verkatehtaankatu 5:een. Yritän olla kuudelta, kun

@gamer00 couldn't make it today. I hosted the club evening instead of him. By hosting I mean just turning up for the irregulars to have someone to play against in case they show up. If you want to keep

My game with our next shodan candidate Markus, 1 kyu We play without handicap. I was white. Markus plays the fuseki (the beginning) better than I. But white had the black group in the upper side captured.

At the crossing of Vapaudenkatu and Rautatienkatu towards the south Pub Hiidenkivi at Rautatienkatu 28 to the north of the street crossing Ugly building, but the pub is nice. I gave Jaro a nine stone handicap