Life In 19x19

Park just beat Shin jinseo in the first game of the final of the Crown Haitai Cup.
https://gotoeveryone.k2ss.info/kr/crown/
This is his twelfth victory in a row.

Go4go shows Park Junghwan playing in something called "1st Korean Crown Haitai Cup". Does anyone know what this tournament is like? It's still hard to find info in English on these things.

You can find the brackets here:
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It seems to be some kind of "under (25?) Years old" tournament.

None of the world champions participated in the prelims passed. 2 top female players also eliminated (from their female groups). What a hard tournament!

None of gorating's top twenty who took part of the prelim made it through. And there were eleven of them.
Mi, Choi, Tan, Shi, Lian, Zhou, Fan ...

pookpooi wrote:Some of them are included but some of them are not. Maybe they include only games between professionals

They only include games with a kifu, and not all games from the preliminary have a game recorder.

Also,
Tang won, Choi won, sedol won and one western pro made it ! Ryan Li won by 0.5 .
Na Hyun beat Kang Dongyun.
Mi lost against Han Taehee, that was unexpected.

Rounds 8 is over.

there were a lot of big pairings, even for chinese A league, such as:

Shin Jiseo vs Shi Yue
Choi Cheolhan vs Mi Yuting
Lee Donghun vs Tang Weixing
Lian Xiao vs Lee Sedol


17 years old shin beat Shi. I look forward for his game with Ke at the LG cup.
Mi invicibility is over as ...

RobertJasiek wrote:Rob van Zeijst participates? He has good chances.

It seems you're right, he's 2-0 so far.

The tournament for the next european pro spot just started. information and draw:

http://www.eurogofed.org/proqualificati ... _2017.html

Seems realy open this year. I would put Kravets, Pop and Podpera as favorites, but there are a lot of players who have a chance to made it. Any bet ?

Uberdude wrote:Both Ke and Tang played 3-3 points, and then Ke went for a big centre: very unusual game.

Yes. The whole game is really weird. This will be nice to study!

Round 3 is already over.

The most notable result: Ke lost against Tang Weixing in just 124 moves. Tang is not doing really great lately (well, it has been so for a least a year now...), but he's one of the only player with a positive record against Ke Jie. Perhaps it will put him back on track.

On ...

Congrats to Cho, I hope he will keep playing for a while and reach another milestone !

Anyone has this number from Korean or Chinese professionals? (Like Lee Changho)

According to the korean baduk association website, there are three koreans who have won over 1500 games so far:

Cho Hunhyun ...

Hi everyone,

Chinese A league 2017 finally started today. Games are available on Wbaduk and Tygem (and probably elsewhere anytime soon).


Have a nice day/evening/night

This is a major source of disappointment and a reason for people leaving Go altogether.

It's a valid point. Staying motivated sur is a tough part. I would probably have been less supportive if he didn't have a reason and a deadline.

You can reach 2k while aiming for 6k as well.

However, I ...

I think most people are quite pessimistics about your goal. It's not gonna be easy but it's doable. Work for it, keep a tsumego book with you at all time, play as much as possible and try to find a teacher. And even if you fail, it's better to end up 2k while aiming at 1d than reaching a 6k goal ...

There is also this one from korean B league:

http://www.go4go.net/go/games/sgfview/58214

White 2,10 and 12 are really unusual, and there is a lot of other crazy moves by white during this (short) game.