Sport Accord - World Mind Games

[hyperpape]

Call me biased, but I think statements like "Japan will probably take bronze" (at usgo.org, but not Go Game Guru or Ranka) are true, but not the best reporting. Ditto for "whoever wins the Europe-USA game will avoid last place". Go ahead and report that the Western countries are huge underdogs, but don't announce the results ahead of time.

If anyone is biased, it would be the original author. Personally, I wouldn't write something like "X will probably take Y". Then again, on paper, I think this Taiwan team is stronger than Japan.

I believe what I'm quoting came after Japan beat Taiwan. So the content of the prediction was that Japan would lose to China and Korea.

[RedStick]

Does anyone know what the time controls are for these games?

[oren]

Does anyone know what the time controls are for these games?

Team match: 2 hours each side followed by 5x 1 min byoyomi.
Pair go: 1 hour each side followed by 30 second byoyomi.

[Javaness2]

Which one is the Canadian?

Yes Ilya qualified, and at the time of the qualification tournament it was believed Russians were eligible even though it was an "EU" team. There is a Canadian player in the "USA" team (there were USA/Canada qualifiers). The Russians are certainly a part of the European Go scene so I'm disappointed they were excluded at the last minute. I wonder if Vanessa, playing for the UK, will be eligible next year .

[lovely]

Which one is the Canadian?

I believe Huang Ke?

[hyperpape]

I think the qualifiers included Canada (I'm not sure about that), but I think Kevin Huang is from the US. http://agagd.usgo.org/Player_Card.php?key=6016, http://www.go-canada.org/documents/Memb-02f.pdf.

[balistic]

For those who arent aware it's being streamed on youtube live

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http://www.youtube.com/user/thesportshubchannel

with videos of matches and highlights

[logan]

For those who arent aware it's being streamed on youtube live

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http://www.youtube.com/user/thesportshubchannel

with videos of matches and highlights

Hmm, some people posted concerns about the lack of Go content in earlier videos and 'bad' English commentary in later videos, but the channel has deleted all such thoughts

[Javaness2]

For those who arent aware it's being streamed on youtube live

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http://www.youtube.com/user/thesportshubchannel

with videos of matches and highlights

Hmm, some people posted concerns about the lack of Go content in earlier videos and 'bad' English commentary in later videos, but the channel has deleted all such thoughts

Wake up to basic PR

[balistic]

What people need to understand is it's not dedicated coverage for Go, it's shared coverage and slips backwards and forwards between chess and other mind games running. I'm grateful for any english coverage, as that's rare enough for a live match between pros. Hopefully it will spur on more events to be covered in english. i watch it while watching the game on IGS which prevents me missing any moves