First game at EGC

 Ahhh today is the first day of the main tournament games. Big expectation and anticipation for the worlds largest go event. Almost a thousand amateur go players from all around the world is gathered and a lot of go professionals as well.

The first round was supposed to start at 09:30 in the morning but of course there were delays. For some time it was a bit chaotic and one of the organizers announced that there will be no games today. We didn't take that too seriously because that is unthinkable, so we continued to wait. One hour late the pairing was up and we could find our table and our opponent.

There were a lot of small tables in each room and there was not a lot of space. The go boards hardly fit on the table but there were no real problem to play. As we say in Sweden "If there is room for our hearts, there is room for our butts".

I played against a 5k French player. It was an even battle but in the end I was ahead but short of time. My opponent then threaten to kill some stones in a complicatedly shaped group of mine. I was too stressed to be able to read it out so I took the safe way and sacrificed a stone and a couple of points. That was my last mistake that changed the outcome of the game and I lost by two points. At least Girlwing won her game against a 4D player. I hope for better luck tomorrow.

(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Chinese]SZ[19]KM[7.50]
GN[Round 1]PW[French guy]PB[Boywing]WR[5k]BR[4k]DT[2011-07-24]EV[EGC 2011]RO[1]PC[Bordeaux, France]WT[France]BT[Sweden]RE[W+2.50]
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After the games we went out to find a supermarket. In Sweden I am used to that the supermarkets are open all days in the week, but not in France. Here they close at lunch time if they are open at all. So now we are running low on food, but I think we have enough for breakfast tomorrow morning. Otherwise we can buy some potato chips in the playing venue.

After the game we also went to listen to a 9p Chinese commenting the top boards games.

For dinner I ate a American French pizza. The most fat pizza I ever ate!

A church outside the pizza place.

This girl sat on the wall of an old building we passed on our way to the closed supermarket.

Mezza Luna

Italian restaurant near Odenplan. Very tasty pizza!

Forno a Legna

Such a good looking pizza! Bide your time, I will devour you...

Pizza Hut - Tropical Chicken

Oh tasty pizza, I WILL DEVOUR YOU!

Pizza Hut - Garlic bread Bruccetta

Girlwing and I took a ride by bicycle to Barkarby. Finaly there we got hungry and we found the right place. :)

Pizza

Today we ate Italian pizza in Kista Galleria. I ate a tasty pizza with arugula and prosciutto. As you can see, the pizza was very tasty and I managed to eat it all before I got time to pick up the camera.

The temple of heaven

Today I and some of the guys went to see the temple of heaven. We was aiming to do several other stuff as well but the temple took so long time so we did not have time for anything else. The temple was fun to see but not too exciting.

Then they wanted to eat pizza. I objected and said that we are in China and are supposed to eat chinese food. But they insisted... so ok... We went back to where they had seen a sign about a pizza buffet. We searched long and well. Some gave up and went to a sandwich joint. I went with three others to look one last time at a place we had not checked yet. And there it was! We payed $6 (huge amount of money for food here) and went in. Two half pizzas and some other food that had been laying for too long as we guessed and noone dared to eat much. I ate a little and then we went. Everybody still hungry. So three of us went to a real pizza place later. There we got some more problems. We ordered two medium pizzas but we got three. We tried to give one back but they didn't let us. So we had to pay for all three but the extra one we took back to the appartment for others to eat.

While at the mall I baught a mouse and Eric bought a basketball. Some day we will find a basketball court and shoot some hoops.