Life In 19x19

This is an interesting topic.

I checked Antti's profile. He is active, but still 1-dan. He isn't playing many games. This year he is 1-6, but last year, only 0-2.
I wonder... is he regularly playing? Maybe, being European, he spends some/most time teaching in Europe. Like Yuki Shigeno 2-dan did ...

Yes, right.

Current edition is #81. The league was last played in edition #78, when Iyama lost. Ichiriki has been Honinbo since then, but the system has changed. The main event is now a knock-out tournament, like the Oza. And the match is best of 5 games, not 7, played in one day.

It is sad ...

Fukuoka is doing really really well in the Honinbo.

He made it to the final match against Ichiriki, beating Iyama (amongst others) in the tournament. Then, he won Ichiriki in the first game.
Now the match is 1-1. He is no longer a promise, he is aiming for the top.

It's a pity that the tournament ...

jts wrote: Wed Apr 01, 2026 4:11 pm Was it only the first game in Hawaii? I thought several were

Only the first game is played abroad.

It used to be a tradition in the Kisei. This year, they traveled again for the first time in a long time.

When Sumire left to Korea, everybody knew that certain thing would eventually happen. And that thing is play against Japan as a Korean player.

That has already happened.

When I am writing this, there is an ongoing international tournament Korea-Japan-China. Same style as Nongshim Cup: one game ...

By "compare" I meant "put in equal terms".
This might be a mistake in my English, as in my mother tongue (Spanish), I would have used this expression to say, well, what I was trying to say.

The king is dead, long live the king.

Shibano is the new Kisei. The match went all the way and Ichiriki and Shibano had to nigiri for the second time. Overall, I think that Shibano did better. Even before the last game. The games he won, were solid. The games he lost... he started better than ...

In the pre-AlphaGo-era, some professionals claimed that they would always beat God on H3, or was it H4?


I think it was Go Seigen who said, "if I played god, with 2 stones the result would be uncertain, with 3 stones, I would be quite sure to win, and with 4 stones, I could bet my life on the ...

It is not that golf rewards better the 2nd player, 3rd player and so on. It is that, overall, there is more money in golf than in go. Big surprise.
The #1 players are making more or less the same. Not because the prizes are the same, but because the best player in go won a lot more tournaments than ...

However, the figures at the top are comparable.


The #1 players in go and in golf are comparable.
But #2 in go is below #10 in golf. There is a big difference in go between the top of the top and everybody else, while in golf, if you do better on the field you do better in the bank. But not so ...

There is something new completely related to the Amazon Army and only to the Amazon Army. And that is the Japan female league.

https://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/match/japanleague_f/archive.html

The second edition is going on. There are 5 teams of 3 players each, Hikaru style. The system is round ...

First post about the Army in the post DOOM era.

The world Senko Cup was just held. In case you don't know, it's a Japanese tournament (4 players) with a player from China, Korea, Taiwan, and an amateur (winner of amateur Senko Cup of the year before). So it's called a world title. But to me... that ...

A lot happened since last post!

Main points should be:
- Sumire won a tournament, Tengen. Unlike Japanese Tengen, in Korea it's for young players. A bit like King/Queen of new stars. Simple knock-outs. I don't know much, but it was at least 4 rounds.
- Sumire was promoted to 5 dan.
- Sumire was ...

Yeeeey!!

Back to life! (in 19x19)
Thaaanks a lot for the hard work.
I just found out this was live again. I wouldn't have mattered a one-time mail about this. (just for the record)

I hadn't seen this yet, but Kato Chie 3-dan qualified for the C league of the Kisei after 5 prelim games.


Although this year she will be the only member of the army, it's good to see that different women have made it these last years, and it's no longer a rarity. The level is rising.

Let's hope ...