Chen Yaoye defeated Park Junghwan by resign.


Shin Jinseo defeated Lian Xiao by resign.


Won Sungjin defeated Fan Yin by resign.


Ke Jie defeated Xu Juayang by resign.

Chen Yaoye is looking good, but don't want to count out Park yet.

Shin Jinseo's recent form draws my attention. Apart from high winning rate, his ability to drive his opponents into painful situations is striking.

Semi-Final Pairing;


Ke Jie vs Won Sungjin


Chen Yaoye vs Shin Jinseo

You might like these articles on him, as a 12 year old new pro he beat Lee Changho in an exhibition game:
https://gogameguru.com/go-commentary-sh ... e-changho/
And then won his first major title last year:
https://gogameguru.com/shin-jinseo-wins ... -park-cup/

A Ke Jie (19 years old) vs Shin Jinseo (16 years old) final would be fun.

Ke Jie has been relatively lucky in his draws here, and he still needed to come back from some mid-game mistakes several times, including this last game. Hope he is saving his best for last.

Ke Jie vs Won Sungjin live on tonight's AGA youtube/twitch stream with commentary by Myungwan Kim 9p starting 10:30 pm pacific time
https://www.youtube.com/c/USGOWeb/live

Semi-Final:8/27/16;
1st game,

Chen Yaoye defeated Shin Jinseo by resign.


Won Sungjin defeated Ke Jie by resign.
Amazing game!!!!!!!

2nd game:8/29/16(Korean time)

That was one of the more amazing games I saw in a while.

2nd game:8/29/16,
Chen Yaoye defeated Shin Jinseo by resign.
Chen Yaoye advanced to the final.

Ke Jie defeated Won Seongjin by resign. tied 1:1

3rd game:8/30/16

That would be tonight (8/29) on the AGA YouTube channel with Myungwan Kim 9p commentary starting about 10:30pm pacific

3rd game:8/30/16,

Ke Jie defeated Won Seongjin by resign.

The final will be Ke Jie vs Chen Yaoye.

Final: 5 games match 9/20/16

A nice photo of Ke Jie's disappointment after losing the first game from wbaduk (http://www.wbaduk.com/news/news_view.asp?news_no=1637):



And a photo from the 3rd game where we can see the crutches for his leg, apparently injured whilst dancing:

The first two games of the final will be played on 9/20 and 9/22.

Anybody knows whether AGA (with Kim Myungwan) going to stream 1st final game? It will be cool. But I didn't find any announcement on official cites.

I asked on chat during the live broadcast if AGA will show the final if it's between two Chinese players, and they said they weren't sure since the collaborative effort is with KBA.

The games will be played outdoors:

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The first game is live now on WBaduk (and Tygem I suppose). Ke Jie as white played a rather strange light tenuki fast paced sacrifice opening.

Game 1;
Chen Yaoye defeated Ke Jie by resign.


Game 2 - 9/22/16

Game 3-5 - 12/16