The Reign of Ke Jie

[kimidori]

Lee Sedol also enjoyed a winning streak right after playing Alpha Go, until the others find the way to "solve" his "Alpha Go-like-philosophy". But at the time Lee played Alpha Go, he was neither at his peak, nor being the strongest player.

Let's see how long it takes for other pros to defeat Ke Jie this time, lol.

Both Lee and Ke said after the match that they would not play with the computer again, but perhaps they should, lol (or other pros should).

[pookpooi]

Ke Jie won his 12th consecutive wins from the first round of Chinese Agon Cup against Guo Wenchao. His opponent on the next round is Tang Weixing.

[pookpooi]

13 is not his unlucky number as he just won against Tang Weixing by resignation! (158 moves were played)

[xiayun]

Ke Jie beat Li Zhe (by resign in 179 moves) in the opening game of Go tournament at the 13th National Games of China to extend his winning streak to 14. Will play Chen Yaoye next in the second game of the day.

[John Fairbairn]

Just so we keep some perspective:

Yi Ch'ang-ho scored 41 consecutive wins in 1990.
Kim In scored 40.
Kogishi Soji scored 32 (1920).
Yi Se-til also scored 32 (2000).
Sakata scored 29 (and had a winning ratio of 93.8% in that year, 1964).

Etc., etc.

Or we could try titles: Cho Hun-hyeon 161, etc. etc.

[pookpooi]

From Google translate of this news

http://sports.sina.com.cn/go/2017-07-05 ... 8836.shtml

Look like Ke Jie just secured 15 consecutive wins.
Of course, this is just a quarter of world shattering record 60-0.

[qingshu]

Just so we keep some perspective:

Yi Ch'ang-ho scored 41 consecutive wins in 1990.
Kim In scored 40.
Kogishi Soji scored 32 (1920).
Yi Se-til also scored 32 (2000).
Sakata scored 29 (and had a winning ratio of 93.8% in that year, 1964).

Etc., etc.

Or we could try titles: Cho Hun-hyeon 161, etc. etc.

Those players are all legends of their own time. But it would be somewhat miraculous for that type of reign to repeat mainly because of how inter-connected the GO world is right now. There's no Chinese style vs Japanese style anymore. Everyone is studying the same set of very advanced kifu and new trends are instantly scrutinized. I feel back then, even if those legends were to have a bad day, they could probably still scrape by. But the skill spread is so tight today that we feel that if Ke Jie slacks just a bit, any top pro can overtake him.

[hyperpape]

Those players are all legends of their own time. But it would be somewhat miraculous for that type of reign to repeat mainly because of how inter-connected the GO world is right now. There's no Chinese style vs Japanese style anymore. Everyone is studying the same set of very advanced kifu and new trends are instantly scrutinized. I feel back then, even if those legends were to have a bad day, they could probably still scrape by. But the skill spread is so tight today that we feel that if Ke Jie slacks just a bit, any top pro can overtake him.

Sakata was playing fellow Japanese players, so there wasn't an international style difference. More recently, Iyama won something like 19 straight against Japanese opponents in late 2015, but Ke Jie has fiercer competition. Interestingly, in relative terms, Ke Jie has about as much advantage over his average opponent as Iyama does.

[pookpooi]

Google translate from https://sports.sina.cn/others/qipai/201 ... 468.d.html

Ke Jie has 16 consecutive wins

[pookpooi]

Today Ke Jie win against Fan Tingyu (7th Ing Cup winner) and Tang Weixing (8th Ing Cup winner) to achieve his 16th and 17th consecutive win.

[Uberdude]

I'm feeling a bit nervous for Ke Jie's win streak in his current game against Yang Dingxin

But he won.

[pookpooi]

Go4Go seems not to be up to date, but may be they'll wait until this whole event is over and upload all games at once. I really wanna know Ke Jie's rating right now.
And Ke Jie's latest game, his 18th consecutive win, ended with just 123 moves...

[xiayun]

Will play Xie Erhao next in round 6, and may play Tan Xiao in the final round.

[pookpooi]

Will play Xie Erhao next in round 6

And win!

More information: from http://sports.sina.com.cn/go/2017-07-08 ... 1139.shtml

Other players have lost at least two so Ke Jie is already the winner of National Games of PRC regardless of the final round outcome.
But of course people are still looking forward to it as a part of Ke Jie winning streak.

[xiayun]

Xie Erhao was looking good midway through, but Ke Jie totally took over in the endgame. As a result, he won the tournament with a game to spare.

The last game will be against Tao Xinran.

Goratings has also updated to include the games from the first 4 rounds.