I also found myself making such a list of pro players OGS names. There was times earlier when either there wasn’t an OGS banner linking to the second game in the European pro league and I found it quicker to just use the usernames of the pro to find the games.
The only one on my list that isn’t there yet is Michael Redmonds
Well, that certainly looks like him, I’d say there is very little doubt that it’s his account.
Makes this game very suspicious, I guess. He calls it difficult in the video, and he’s playing against two handicap stones. Same with the next game. On the other hand, he doesn’t seem to be bothered by it in the slightest.
Well no matter if they are or aren’t, I want them to make it to #1 on the 9x9 ladder so I can say I challenged the number 1 spot(even though I am still 132 or so). They’ve already moved up 70 or so places since I challenged them(I challenged them on May 19th)
I added Shibano Ryunosuke 2p who plays on OGS as spicyspyigo. I’m 99.9% sure because their Nihon-Kiin page links to the twitter account of spicyspyigo, but have not formally confirmed with them.
I find it reassuring that pros still play Go for fun, at least sometimes. If the idea of the game list is that they should all be serious, professional games, then yeah, maybe crazy games played for fun should be left off that list. It would also be a bit weird, verging on Go celebrity-stalking paparrazzi behaviour, to add all their games.
I may have miscounted slightly (I started counting in fives as the list was so long) but spicyspyigo seems to have close to 300 active correspondence games. I can see why @S_Alexander doesn’t want to add all their games to the pro games table .
UPDATE: After checking with Ohashi-sensei (spaceman), I have added professional accounts for Shibano Ryunosuke 2p and Ando Kazushige 5p. See the wiki above.
I brought back spicyspyigo back. The logic is that since it’s known it’s his account, no harm in mentioning it. But let’s properly mark it as unofficial account and not log the games from it.
For that let’s make “Notes” column in pro accounts table.
And I guess it would be better to mark Haylee as “retired” if we want to mark it at all.
I attempted to shorten the rows in games table. Shorter dates, shorter descriptions. Also change the result in continued games to “-”.
Are we sure we need results column at all? In my view the more columns we have to fill in, the more annoying the table maintenance becomes.