17th Nongshim Cup

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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

Post by lichigo »

Ichiki ryo conte min sangyeon ^^ Come on korea !!!
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

Post by emeraldemon »

By goratings elo, Ichikiri Ryo had a 39% chance to beat Fan Yunruo. Not a huge upset, but he wasn't favored.

He has 51% against Min Sangyoun; they are 9 elo apart. If he does win 3 in a row it will be the best result by a Japanese pro in the Nongshim cup since Yoda Norimoto won 3 games way back in 2006 (I think).
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

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3rd game;
Ichiriki Ryo defeated Min Sangyeon by resign.

4th game;
Ichiriki Ryo vs Wu Guangya


Korea:Park Junghwan, Min Sangyeon, Baek Chanhee, Lee Sedol, Choi Cheolhan
China:Ke Jie, Lian Xiao, Wu Guangya, Fan Yunruo, Gu Li
Japan:Iyama Yuuta, Kono Rin, Ida Atzshi, Murakawa Daisuke, Ichiriki Ryo

bold - Remaining players.
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

Post by hyperpape »

And with that, they've matched last year's win count without yet losing a single player.
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

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I like Ichiriki's style, lots of intricate close fighting and interesting shapes.
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

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From today's game: white 1 has to give up killing the dragon. Can you see why?
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

Post by oren »

Mimura Tomoyasu from Japan said this in his twitter which I found interesting.

"一力七段の碁を見ると強気に仕掛けて戦い抜いて勝っている。このスタイルは特に団体勝ち抜き戦ではプラスに働くと思う。"
He's commenting that Ichiriki's style of Go is winning with strong fighting skills. This style is especially useful in a win through group style tournament.

I don't know exactly why he thinks that way, but I thought it was interesting anyway.

Through Google translate for fun
"If you look at the go of Ichi-ryoku seven stages are won by fought by bullish gimmick. I think this style work plus, especially in group tournament."
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

Post by Uberdude »

My answer to macelee's question:
If white tries to kill with the cut of 1, then...

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However, maybe white doesn't need to cut (and the consequent liberty problems that creates) but can let black connect and try to kill the whole thing. Harder to read what will happen as black searches for an eye or some capture in the centre, but there's probably enough aji to do something

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This makes me wonder though about white's reasoning when he played the hane on the left. Was this a serious attempt to kill and he hadn't seen black's escape? Because in terms of points he lost a lot here and surely there was some better way of playing some move in the sente like L8 that white would have to ignore or answer passively to avoid dying and then once black makes his gote second eye white gets 2 moves in the centre.
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

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"一力七段の碁を見ると強気に仕掛けて戦い抜いて勝っている。このスタイルは特に団体勝ち抜き戦ではプラスに働くと思う。"
He's commenting that Ichiriki's style of Go is winning with strong fighting skills. This style is especially useful in a win through group style tournament.


Thanks for spotting that comment.

Incidentally, is this 'win through' an Americanism I haven't come across yet, or is it your own rendering? I would call it a "win & continue2 team tournament. That was my own rendering, but it seems to have acquired a fair degree of acceptance.

But back to the very interesting comment. I would have thought that the bullish challenges followed by all-out fighting that Mimura describes would be useful in all international events, not just team ones, so I'm a little surprised he didn't go that far. At the same time, there seems to be a hint that it's maybe not so useful back in Japan. Which may be the case, but I suppose we could also argue that Mimura (approaching 60) is one of the old guard that haven't quite got the feel of this new style.
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

Post by ez4u »

We have to be careful of how much, and what, we read into such comments. The main differences that I see between the Nongshim Cup and, say, the knockout preliminaries to every Japanese tournament that Mimura's readers would be more familiar with, are that: 1. only one game is played at a time so the spotlight is very much on the players of that game (expect lots of kiai) and 2. you do not know who your opponent will be until the day before (and they are unfamiliar even then) so you have limited ability to prepare based on past experience with that opponent.

Also of course, Mimura is writing to make sense out of Ichiriki's success. If Ichikiki gets trounced next time, let's see whether Mimura writes about how he failed to stay true to his 'successful' approach in games 1-3. :)
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

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4th game;
Wu Guangya defeated Ichiriki Ryo by resign.

Korea:Park Junghwan, Min Sangyeon, Baek Chanhee, Lee Sedol, Choi Cheolhan
China:Ke Jie, Lian Xiao, Wu Guangya, Fan Yunruo, Gu Li
Japan:Iyama Yuuta, Kono Rin, Ida Atzshi, Murakawa Daisuke, Ichiriki Ryo
bold - Remaining players.

---- End of 1st round ----

2nd round: 11/27/2015~12/1/2015
3rd round: 3/1/2016~3/5/2016
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

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Ichiriki Ryo's good fortune came to a very abrupt end. By that I mean he appeared to be doing fine but all of a sudden resigned. It took me about 20 minutes to understand why he had to resign.

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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

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The 2nd stage of Nongshim Cup is ongoing now.

Game 5: Choi Cheolhan beat Wu Guangya
Game 6: Choi Cheolhan beat Ida Atsushi

Tomorrow Gu Li is to challenge Choi.

Tournament table here: http://www.go4go.net/go/tournaments/news/28

The complete history of Nongshim Cup: http://www.go4go.net/go/tournaments/nongshim
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Re: 17th Nongshim Cup

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7th game;
Gu Li defeated Choi Cheolhan by resign.


Remaining players;
Korea:Park Junghwan, Lee Sedol, Choi Cheolhan, Min Sangyeon, Baek Chanhee
China:Ke Jie, Lian Xiao, Wu Guangya, Fan Yunruo, Gu Li
Japan:Iyama Yuuta, Kono Rin, Murakawa Daisuke,Ida Atzshi, Ichiriki Ryo
bold - Remaining players.


2nd round: 11/27/2015~12/1/2015
3rd round: 3/1/2016~3/5/2016
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