I guess I meant something like "once per month, you can have up to 3 free player trades". In the initial rules I wrote up a tax to keep people from trading too frequently on upcoming matches.

I'm not sure I'd want that. Too frequent trades encourages gaming based on the upcoming matches. My ideal would be a yearly draft.

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I think something like seasonal draft (maybe 6 months; a year is a long time, but is also possible), where you can trade your players out and get new ones at an updated pricing list.

But if new players join, won't we be entering with advance information of who's doing well? shouldn't the prices per player change based on their current standings?

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Let my comments be as eggs thrown on stones... explosive and hard to wash.

Six months is probably enough. A year has the advantage that since most of the tournaments have yearly cycles, you have almost zero information about who will be playing where.

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Well my first instinct was not to award latecomers points for events that have already occurred. But given how far along we are, that'd be a pretty huge handicap. I'll have to think about this a bit more.

Ok, I've added all the Nongshim games, the first Samsung Final game, and the two Meijin league games so far:

points earned by pro:

player standings:


Here's the Samsung final game, Won Sungjin vs. Gu Li:



It's a pretty epic full-board battle, of course I'd expect no less from Gu Li.

you've missed the second Samsung game, won by Gu Li. tomorrow there is going to be the last one, check trout's thread for result

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Spilling gasoline feels good.

I might be wrong, but probably not.

Thanks Laman, seems Mr Kin's is always a few days behind...

points earned by pro:

player standings:

And Won Sungjin took the Samsung Cup!

http://gogameguru.com/won-seongjin-wins ... msung-cup/

points earned by pro:

player standings:

Awesome. I feel somewhat evil with this much of a lead.

I'm not sure it'll last, but I'm looking forward to seeing if it does.

A question about the game:

Click Here To Show Diagram Code

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This sequence in the lower right in game 3 seems much better for black (Won Sungjin) to me. Is it? The corner looks huge.

The next moves here were black moving the N6 stone with move 35, even.

See GoGameGuru for the complete game.

Park Yeonghun won against Baek Hongsuk in the Myeongin finals and so defended his title 3-1 (impressive, given he had to go through the whole knock-out)

Uchida Shuhei lost his first game in the Meijin league to Mizokami Tomochika

still waiting for today's results of Takao-Seto and Kono-Yuki matches from the Honinbo league. (Asahi beats Mainichi)

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Spilling gasoline feels good.

I might be wrong, but probably not.

Honinbo league, 3rd round:
Seto Taiki - Takao Shinji (W+R)
Iyama Yuta (B+R) - Ko Iso
Yuki Satoshi - Kono Rin (W+1.5)

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Spilling gasoline feels good.

I might be wrong, but probably not.

Here's the sgf for the Last Myeongin match:



There's a very interesting ko battle, I'm going to have to study this game more later.

points earned by pro:

player standings:


Still waiting for the Hane Naoki-Cho U match in the Honinbo League, and the Hane Naoki - Iyama Yuta match in the Meijin League.

Takao Shinji is looking really good: won the challenger match for Kisei, and leading in the Honinbo League at 3-0. Lost to Cho U in the Meijin league though.

Honinbo league:
Cho U beat Hane Naoki by resign

next week:
Meijin league:
Iyama Yuta - Hane Naoki

Tengen-sen: (does it also count?)
Anzai Nobuaki - Cho Chikun
Kobayashi Koichi - Sakai Hideyuki
Yamada Kimio - Kurahashi Masayuki

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Spilling gasoline feels good.

I might be wrong, but probably not.

Can I still join the fantasy league? If so, are the prices for pros still the same from the first post? And what events would still apply to me?

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My blog with World Go news in Portuguese: Jornal do Go
The game records are on the Universal Language of Go, of course.
But still, the link to the Google Translation to English: Jornal Do Go

Meijin league:
Iyama Yuta beat Hane Naoki

Tengen main tournament:
Anzain Nobuaki beat Cho Chikun
Sakai Hideyuki beat Kobayashi Koichi
Yamada Kimio beat Kurahashi Masayuki

Judan main tournament:
Ko Iso beat Ogata Masaki
Cho U beat Kono Rin

either with Cho U or Ko Iso, i think Judan finals are going to be interesting. looking forward to March

emeraldemon: i fell out of touch and forgot which Japanese tournaments are included into our league and i am still not sure after checking the first post, could you please refresh my memory?

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Spilling gasoline feels good.

I might be wrong, but probably not.

Good news for Ko Iso. Until Iyama Yuta came around, he was the youngest player to enter the Kisei, Meijin or Honinbo leagues.

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When you think your opponent has made a mistake, that's when you should be the most cautious.

@Menezes, shapenaji: I've decided the way to go forward is to recalculate the points at the end of February and we'll redo enrollment then.

@Laman: I'm counting Oza, Tengen, and Judan, but only Round of 8 or higher. I'll update the first post with some more clear instructions.

points earned by pro:

player standings:

1 point goes to each player who was seeded into the round of 16 of the GS Caltex Cup: http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/kr/gs.html

points earned by pro:

player standings:


Meijin and Honinbo league results should be rolling in soonish, as well as BC Card Cup preliminaries.