Polish Summer Go Camp 2009
Last year I couldn’t go to Polish Summer Go Camp 2009, so this time I decided to do everything this year to participate. After very long travel by train (567 km and about 12 hours) I arrived to Alaska, place of the Go Camp. In first days the weather was great. People were enjoying the time on the beach. Of course this was Go Camp, so there were plenty of Baduk tournaments.
First tournament, was prepared to help new visitors to get to know each other. Unfortunately I was playing only with people that I know. In first round I had big hallucination and resign very quickly to Stanisław Frejlak 2d. In next three round I play much better and won them all against: Anna Sośnicka 1k, Krzysztof Bożek 2d and Michał Langner 3d – full results.
There were 2 type of baduk tournaments. First type you can call important and in this tournaments people were playing for big prizes (Polish Academic Championship for example). Second type of tournaments you can call “for fun” (Ligthing, Rengo, Team tournament). In first type I play not bad, but couldn’t win important matches. My luck goes to “for fun tournaments” where I won all three tournaments very easily. In the end I’m very content of my overall results in Baduk tournaments in Polish Summer Go Camp 2009. BTW: After Lighting tournament I was promoted to 2-Dan in Polish Ranking List.
Playing Baduk whole time can be fun, but the most enjoyable part was meeting old and new friends. I was shocked to met some friends after so many years. In the end we decided to make eve night and singing to the dawn. This was just amazing :) Of course this kind of summer camp is great to met new friends. For example launching hand made boats on the lake was hilarious. I just can’t wait to go there again and met these great people.
P.S. More great photos you can found on tasuki gallery.
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