2008-01-30:

It has again started to melt. Let's see how the weather is developing in the next days. For some time you could even spot the sun, not clear, rather dusty and dirty, but still. People used immediately the opportunity to hang their clothes out for drying. Due to space problems this is quite common here. And traditionally on Saturday and on Sunday all people seem to wash simultaneously. If you then look at houses you have rather the impression to be a shop for clothes ;-).

As you can on the photos in front of the windows there is some kind of metal bar. In most cases rusty, but this doesn't matter. Then you take long bamboos, and on those bamboos you hang your clothes. Alternatively, people use their balcony - if available -, or I also saw people who put their stuff in trees, next to the street.

For go-players I have this time two nice problems.

White to play, an interesting problem.

Black to play, this is a funny problem. Since there aren't so many points it should be quite easy to solve it, shouldn't it? Actually you need to check only four points because the position is symmetrical.