Life In 19x19

Looks like Shin Jinseo won the Nongshim cup for Korea when he defeated Li Xuanhao and Ding Hao in the last two games. Still, it was good to see the Japanese players play until the last round.
Japan didn't win any games in the first two rounds, so it's not like they reached the final round on merit ...

Elom0 wrote:The next two pairings are quite dramatic, since Fang Tingyu has already defeated Kang Dongyun in the Nongshim Cup and now there's a rematch here, while there is one person in the world who Shin Jinseo can't reliably win against, Mi Yuting!

Fan Tingyu lost to Kang Dongyun in Nongshim Cup.

The women's Korean Baduk League has just begun. Given that Choi Jung won all her games last year, perhaps it might be better to not play her too often to give the other players experience in holding the team.
Choi Jeong played every round and yet her team failed to make the playoffs. They finished ...

CDavis7M wrote:The Senko Women's Strongest title is one of the major women's titles. At least it gets your face in the back of Go World. Looking there I see that Fujisawa Rina had won the past 5 times (of 6).

Fujisawa Rina has won the Senko Cup 3 times.

Nakamura Sumire beat Fujisawa Rina in the semifinal of the Japanese Senko Cup. She won by 1.5 points. A video of the game is here.

The final will be on 17 July against Nyu Eiko. It will be livestreamed here.

The women's Korean Baduk League has just begun. Given that Choi Jung won all her games last year, perhaps it might be better to not play her too often to give the other players experience in holding the team.
Choi Jeong lost her first game in this year's league, losing to Kim Soojin 6p.

Why did ...

I've just seen a table of Sin Chin-seo's career track record for official games. Hard to believe he started off with a negative record!

2012 (age 12) 0W-2L = 0%
2013 (age 13) 30-20 = 60%
2014 (age 14) 55-28 = 66%
2015 (age 15) 64-22-1 = 74%
2016 (age 16) 55-18 = 75%
2017 (age 17) 53-16 = 76%
2018 ...

Today marks 1 year since he last lost (an official game) to a non-Korean player (Mi Yuting in the Jia League). Since then he has played (and won) 24 games against Chinese players, 5 games against Japanese players, and 1 game against Taiwanese players.

Right. In WBaduk (must be the same, after all), she is 4 d too.

She lost to Kim Cheayoun 7d, Korea's second player.

Taking down 3 rivals... it's really something.
Kim Cheayoung is Korea's third player.

Wu Yiming beat 5 players: Nakamura Sumire 2p, Lee Suljoo 1p, Suzuki Ayumi 7p, Heo Seohyun 3p ...

Elom0 wrote:The women's Korean Baduk League has just begun. Given that Choi Jung won all her games last year, perhaps it might be better to not play her too often to give the other players experience in holding the team.

Choi Jeong lost her first game in this year's league, losing to Kim Soojin 6p.

First round (going from 24 players to 16):

Wang Yuanjun beat Weon Seongjin
Shin Minjun beat Shi Yue
Zhao Chenyu beat Park Geunho
Kim Jiseok beat Gu Zihao
Kang Dongyun beat Cho Hanseung
Kim Myounghoon beat Seol Hyunjun
Yu Zhengqi beat Park Hamin
Park Jinsol beat Sada Atsushi

Round of 16 matches ...

pajaro wrote:That said, she played today again, and won. Against the first Korean player. I don't know her name.

Lee Suljoo 1p

While in Korea the make and female number one's just dominant, especially in long time setting. Who knows, Shin Jinsei might just be at home in a two-day game.

I wasn't aware that Korea also liked long time settings. We're talking 2-day long matches or similar, right?
The longest domestic games ...

The LG Cup begins in not too long and she might get a seed and the Samsung Cup begins in august so we'll see if she can make the quarterfinals of any of these Korean tournaments.
The LG Cup field has already been determined. Choi Jeong did not qualify, she lost to Cho Hanseung in the final round ...

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