Sorry about blunder!!!!!!!

I read an article about these matches this morning:
http://www.tygem.com/news/news/viewpage ... &findword=

There were interesting stats about the historical records between players:

* Lee Sedol vs. Park Jungwan: Lee is up, 17 wins to 10 losses against Park, but looking at just this year, Lee is only up 4-3.

* Shi Yue vs. Tang Weixing: Even at 3 wins and 3 losses each (looking only at international tournaments)

* Park Jungwan vs. Shi Yue: Even at 6 wins and 6 losses each.
* Park Jungwan vs. Tang Weixing: Even at 3 wins and 3 losses each.
* Lee Sedol vs. Shi Yue: Lee Sedol is up with 6 wins and 3 losses.
* Lee Sedol vs. Tang Weixing: Tang is up with 2 wins and 1 loss.

I was happy to see the article mention Andy Liu's earlier match against Lee Sedol, even if his name was written as "앤디 루이", which I would read as "Andy Lui". Maybe the author had a mixup with Eric Lui, as he's also had some activity in international tournaments.

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Semi Final 1st game;

Park Junghwan defeated Lee Sedol by resign.
Tang Weixing defeated Shi yue by resign.

game 2: 6/12

Semi Final 2nd game;

Lee Sedol defeated Park Junghwan by resign.
Lee Sedol vs Park Junghwan - 1:1

Shi yue defeated Tang Weixing by 3.
Shi Yue vs Tang Weixing - 1:1

3rd game: 6/14

Semi Final 3rd game;


Park Junghwan defeated Lee Sedol by 3.
Lee Sedol vs Park Junghwan - 1:2

Tang Weixing defeated Shi Yue by resign.
Shi Yue vs Tang Weixing - 1:2


Final;
Park Junghwan vs Tang Weixing[

Hey kids,

Come to the US Go Congress in Boston this summer and you can play on the same type of board, use the same type of bowl, play with the same stones, and track time on the same clocks as Park Junghwan and Lee Sedol in this picture!

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Want to see videos of low-dan mistakes and what to learn from them? Brady's Blunders

Interesting that Park Junghwan (black) played practically the same opening as AlphaGo did against Lee Sedol in game 2 of their match (maybe a psychological ploy?). He played the early peep at the top left even earlier, and it was Lee who varied first with the outside approach to the Chinese corner rather than playing the hoshi, which Park pincered at and Lee immediately invaded (as he did against Won Seongjin in the Maxim cup final). Lee lost both games: it does some a nice active opening for black, you could even play that too at the US Go Congress, though I suspect your subsequent moves won't be so good!

But, but, but the board, the clock, and the stones are a crime against good aesthetics. The colors, the textures, the shapes, the materials, everything about them is abhorrent. For all the money the ING corporation had, couldn't they have hired an industrial designer?

Maybe Mr Ing designed them himself, and no one was brave enough to say 'no' to the boss. Though I think 'abhorrent' is a bit strong.

Is that... a man dressed in a grey pinafore dress in the background?

Ing Cup final starts tonight! Looks like Myungwan Kim 9p will stream live on the AGA youtube channel starting 8pm pacific. It's really awesome to have live English commentary on international go finals, I am super hyped for this.

Park Junghwan is the big favorite. goratings.org gives Park Junghwan a scary 71% winrate against Tang Weixing, but I am rooting for Tang all the way! They have played each other 8 times so far, and Park Junghwan leads 5-3. They played most recently back in June, when Park knocked Tang out of the Bailing Cup.

I know tygem will show the board live, any word about western servers like KGS or OGS?

I don't remember KGS broadcasting any Asian event ever. No idea about OGS.

KGS always shows the games that AGA broadcasts live.

Park Junghwan won the first game as white by 2.5 points. It was quite a reversal: in the middle game he spent rather too many gote endgame type moves attacking a black group which Tang skillfully dodged and tenukied to take big opening points which doubled up as extending a lifeline to his weak group, but he managed to make some complicated fighting and some slip ups from Tang allowed Park to catch up. AGA commentary link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZPKR7HzM_s

Wow, I can't believe it.

In the middle game, I felt white was like 20 points behind, and I eventually assumed black win and went to bed. I heard Tang was good at late middle game, too.

I can't believe white won.

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That's the 16th straight professional win in a row for Park Junghwan...

Game 1,
Park Junghwan defeated Tang Weixing by 3.

Park Junghwan vs Tang Weixing 1:0

game 2: 8/12/16


How the hell did I lose this game?/

** At 4am move 131, I went to sleep thinking there is no way that Park is gonna reverse this situation. Well...........

w seemed so bad after fuseki, i was like yeah this is a done deal, wth happened?