3/27 Opening Ceremony
3/28-3/30 Game starts

Participants;

China;
Xie He(9d, runner-up), Gu Lingyi(5d, 3rd place),
Gu Li(9d), Kong Jie(9d), Qiu Jun(9d), Piao Wenyao(9d), Chen Yaoye(9d), Jiang Weijie(9d), Tan Xiao(5d), Mi Yuting(3d)
Korea;
Lee Sedol(9d, winner),
Choi Cheolhan(9d), Won Sungjin(9d), Park Junghwan(9d), Kang Dongyun(9d), Kim Jiseok(7d)
Japan;
Cho Chikun(9d), Yoda Norimoto(9d), Yamashita Keigo(9d), Mizokami Tomochika(8d), Sakai Hideyuki(8d)
Taiwan;
Chen Shiyuan(9d)
North America;
Yang Jing
Europe;
Alexander Dinerchtein

Pairing for the 1st round,

Chen Yaoye vs Kang Dongyun
Tan Xiao vs Won Sungjin
Mi Yuting vs Yoda Norimoto
Kong Jie vs Mizokami Tomochika
Qiu Jun vs Yamashita Keigo
Chen Shiyuan vs Alexander Dinerchtein
Choi Cheolhan vs Yang Jing
Kim Jiseok vs Sakai Hideyuki

Players seeded in the 2nd round,
China;
Xie He(9d, runner-up), Gu Lingyi(5d, 3rd place),
Gu Li(9d) Piao Wenyao(9d) Jiang Weijie(9d)
Korea;
Lee Sedol(9d, winner), Park Junghwan(9d)
Japan;
Cho Chikun(9d)

Mi Yuting defeated Yoda Norimoto by 4.5.
Choi Cheolhan defeated Yang Jing by resign.
Chen Shiyuan defeated Alexander Dinerchtein by resign.
Kim Jiseok defeated Sakai Hideyuki.
Chen Yaoye defeated Kang Dongyun by resign.
Won Sungjin defeated Tan Xiao by resign.
Kong Jie defeated Mizokami Tomochika by resign.
Qiu Jun defeated Yamashita Keigo by 4.5.



Yoda vs Mi


Chen vs Kang


Yang vs Choi


Yamashita vs Qui


Won vs Tan


Cho Chihoon reviewing game.

2nd round pairing,

Mi Yuting vs Park Junghwan
Choi Cheolhan vs Piao Wenyao
Chen Shiyuan vs Jiang Weijie
Kim Jiseok vs Gu Li(9d)
Chen Yaoye vs Cho Chikun
Won Sungjin vs Gu Lingyi
Kong Jie vs Xie He
Qiu Jun vs Lee Sedol

Next round looks exciting. When will it be played?

Interesting pairings and I especially look forward to see Mi-Park game. Remembering his disappointing defeat by Mi at an early stage in BC Card Cup, I had expected a slump for
Park, but despite of his age and maybe "inexperience", he seemed to be unaffacted by showing a great performance and winning two important domestic tournements. It's somewhat
unusual for a "promising young player" to have such a stability, but probably, he's already become an elit. On the other hand, Mi is at the top form as he already defeated
Park Junghwan, Lee Changho and Yoda Norimoto lately. Especially, in the game with Yoda, although he felt so much behind in the early stage, he showed his calmness and played
very maturely which I didn't expect from such a young boy.
Also, the pairings of Kim-Gu and Qiu-Lee are remarkable as Gu and Lee are the players who were defeated by their current opponents in the latest Nongshim and Fujitsu Cups,
respectively. So, let's see whether they think about "revenge"

Next round will be played 3/30 10:30am (China).

Park Junghwan defeated Mi Yuting by resign.
Chen Yaoye defeated Cho Chikun by 4.5.
Jiang Weijie defeated Chen Shiyuan by resign.
Lee Sedol defeated Qiu Jun by resign.
Won Sungjin defeated Gu Lingyi by resign.
Piao Wenyao defeated Choi Cheolhan by 5.5.
Kim Jiseok defeated Gu Li by resign.
Kong Jie defeated Xie He by resign.

Date for 3rd round has not been informed yet.

3rd round pairings;

Park Junghwan vs Jiang Weijie
Kong Jie vs Won Sungjin
Lee Sedol vs Kim Jiseok
Piao Wenyao vs Chen Yaoye

3rd round and semifinals will be played at the end of the year (probably in December), and the final competition will be held in the summer of 2013 (probably June).

My money's on Wiejie, Jie, Sedol and Yaoye in the semis

Park-Weijie?
Jie-Won?
Lee
Wen Yao

Nah, if it's scheduled after 20.12.2012 we might never know

Cheers,
Vesa

According to Oro web site,
3rd round pairing;

Park Junghwan vs Chen Yaoye
Jiang Weijie vs Won Sungjin
Kong Jie vs Kim Jiseok
Piao Wenyao vs Lee Sedol

Lee Sedol's victory over Qiu Jun (http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/wr/9cl2-5.sgf) features the biggest kill I've seen in a while.

http://gokifu.com/s/wbt-gokifu-20120330-Lee_Sedol(9p)-Qiu_Jun(9p).html

Just to make it easier to see the game.

This is a fairly useful plugin to view sgfs in a new window.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... to-eidogo/

Here's a commentary of the Lee Sedol - Qiu Jun game. Definitely a good one to study because you rarely see two top pros go all out like this.

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