Life In 19x19

pookpooi wrote:Is today relax day or not, I'm confused
Can I have calendar of the whole MLily cup?

According to Chinese wikipedia (https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A2%A6 ... 0%E8%B5%9B):

1. round - 19. June
2. round - 21. June
3. round - 24. August
4. round - 26. August
Semifinal - 17., 19. and 20. November
Final - 30. December 2017 - 5. January 2018

His name in Chinese characters is 胡子扬 or 胡子杨.

He was rated as number 228 in China pr. 30/4 2012, and he qualified for the Chinese city B-league as a U17-player where he played for a Shanghai team and scored 1-6.

See:
http://weiqi.sports.tom.com/2012-06-15/ ... 87771.html
http://post.weiqi.tom.com/s/080008F75825.html

The following 19 qualified for the main tournament:

Korea:
Kang Dongyoon
Jin Siyoung
Ahn Kukhyun
Han Woonggyu
Yoo Changhyuk
Choi Jung

Japan:
Komatsu Hideki

China:
Tuo Jiaxi
Mi Yuting
Li Ming
Zhong Wenjing
Peng Liyao
Shi Yue
Fan Tingyu
Tang Weixing
Xie He
Li Qincheng
Zhou Hexi
Rui Naiwei

The main ...

The correct (Pinyin) spelling of the names for the Chinese players is Rui Naiwei and Yu Zhiying.

The pinyin romanization of the Taiwanese names is Dang Xijun and Su Shengfang.

I'm rooting for Hu Yaoyu, he seems to have fallen out of the spotlight after losing to Zhou Junxun in the finals of the LG Cup 6 years ago. It would be great to see him finally get a world title.

he didnt even make the playoff.
i think the number of strong players have increased and hu yaoyu lost ...

I believe it's a lack of official pairings. The topic came up in an earlier tournament thread on the professionals board, but I can't remember where.

It seems like the pairing for the next round is drawn after the completion of the previous round. If you look at the pairing you will notice that ...

Hm, I'd almost always play this. Is fuego's suggested move better? Discuss!

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Kong Jie won the Asian TV cup after beating Baek Hongsuk in the final.

Gu Li won the Samsung Cup after beating Heo Yongho 2-1 in the final.

If you look at the tournament tables you will notice that for most tournaments the next round is drawn is such a matter matches between players from the same country are avoided as far as possible. The only exceptions to this that I'm aware of are the BC Card cup and the preliminaries to the LG Cup ...

Yang Dinxin 1d just made it to the 3rd round Quzhou-Lanke Cup, beating among others Chen Yaoye, Wang Yao and Huang Yizhong.

Does anybody have any information about him? Some googling seems to indicate that he is currently 10 years old, and became professional at the end of 2008.

deja wrote:

Araban wrote:Looking at the game in progress, I find it very difficult to believe Lee Sedol will win against Gu Li (on move 114) .

How about a link Sol? Share the wealth...

The game can be found at:

http://weiqi.sports.tom.com/2010-06-07/ ... 16_03.html

The comments are in Chinese though...

The main round of the LG cup starts today.

Already in the first round we have a very exciting match, where Lee Sedol is matched against Gu Li.

The full pairing can be found at http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/lg.html