First round (going from 24 players to 16):

Li Xuanhao beat Ryan Li
Li Qincheng beat Seki Kotaro
Sada Atsushi beat Mi Yuting
Byun Sangil beat Ichiriki Ryo
Ding Hao beat Shibano Toramaru
Li Weiqing beat Ilya Shikshin
Kim Jiseok beat Iyama Yuta
Kim Myounghoon beat Shi Yue

Round of 16 matches (to take place on 24 March):

Shin Jinseo vs Li Qincheng
Ke Jie vs Kim Myounghoon
Park Junghwan vs Li Weiqing
Byun Sangil vs Gu Zihao
Shin Minjun vs Ding Hao
Li Xuanhao vs Xu Haohong
Sada Atsushi vs Tang Weixing
Kim Jiseok vs Yang Dingxin

Interestingly, over the last two Chunlan Cups, Nihon Kiin have gone 0-7 in the first round, while Kansai Kiin have gone 3-0

I didn't see this post until now but last night I was browsing the Round 1 results on a Chinese news website (with computer translation) and I could not believe that Sada Atsushi beat Mi Yuting! I was hoping to see Mi since he might be my favorite Chinese Pro. The article headline said that Mi Yuting was getting more and more upset about a mistake he made. I can't tell if it was a complete blunder or just mistaken reading. The Round 2 games are still on Fox to view right now. The Round 1 games are on Go4Go. Here is Mi and Sada: https://go4go.net/go/games/sgfview/102210. The other Japanese players lost in Round 1. Ryan Li also competed and lost in Round 1. Sada lost in Round 2.

By the way, here are photos of the event including photos of the players being checked through security -- why?
http://www.chunlan.com/igo/14th/2news/2 ... sp?id=5161

Do you know which move upset Mi and, possibly, when he came to realize it was a mistake? I think that would be interesting to see.

If I had to guess about security, I'd suppose they're trying to make sure they don't have any electronic devices on them. Even if they can't whip out a phone in the middle of a match, it would certainly be possible to work out a system where an observer could send some sort of signal at key moments in the game. But that's pure conjecture; I don't know anything about the setting or security history of this type of event.

Round of 16 results:

Shin Jinseo beat Li Qincheng
Ke Jie beat Kim Myounghoon
Li Weiqing beat Park Junghwan
Byun Sangil beat Gu Zihao
Shin Minjun beat Ding Hao
Li Xuanhao beat Xu Haohong
Tang Weixing beat Sada Atsushi
Yang Dingxin beat Kim Jiseok

Quarterfinals (to be played at the end of the year):

Ke Jie vs Shin Jinseo
Yang Dingxin vs Li Xuanhao
Tang Weixing vs Shin Minjun
Li Weiqing vs Byun Sangil


Some notable moments from the round of 16:
Gu Zihao made a big mistake (according to AI) early against Byun Sangil and never recovered
Kim Jiseok falls to 0-7 against Yang Dingxin
Li Weiqing and Park Junghwan had an epic 7.5 hour marathon with Li Weiqing finally prevailing

The right side didn't work out for him but it's not clear to me exactly where he went wrong. I checked with AI earlier and my impression was that Mi didn't make a complete blunder. He just played a few poor moves on the right that worsened his position and with B101 it was bad.

I understand why they have security. But I don't understand why the sponsor decided to publish these awkward pictures of the players being patted down with their arms out. They could have published the players at their computers and been done with it.

They want to show that all measures are taken to prevent cheating, actually I appreaciate those pictures

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