Life In 19x19

Unfortunately Blackie (Kim Seungjun 9p) lost to Wang Haoyang 6p. After an AlphaGo shimari he went for a big central moyo and things seemed to be going okay until Wang's group he was attacking ended up killing his wall (I think he could have safely captured the tail but misread and tried to kill all of it). That game and the others were recorded for broadcast by the visiting BIBA troupe as the scheduled game recorders didn't turn up. Youngster Shin Minjun 5p beat legend Lee Changho 9p with 3-3 on move 6, Shi Yue 9p beat Yun ChanHee 7p (who also played AG-style early 3-3 and then wedge the side, living giving Shi thickness which made for hard fighting on the other side of the board where he died, and Hu Yaoyu 8p beat Hong Minpyo 9p in a more traditional game.

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And in the world group Ryan Li couldn't follow up on his impressive win against Chen Yaoye and lost against Victor Chow 7d of South Africa.

I found Won Seongjin's game against Wu Guanga rather interesting. Won is known for normally playing a thick and influence-oriented style with a powerful punch but in this game he (playing white) made territories and Wu had centre-potential (though I suppose you could say his territories were thick and thus he was able to freely start centre activities). A few highlights:

The second round is in the books for all groups. Of the 152 players left, 54 are from China, 4 from Chinese Taipei, 2 from Japan (both in the senior group), 84 from Korea, and 8 from the world group. For Japanese players in the open groups I thought Ida Atsushi 8p had the best chance to advance but he lost to Kim Namhoon 1p.

Uberdude posted earlier that Ryan Li lost to Victor Chow of South Africa in the world group. Here is the match up for next round:

Victor Chow vs Ali Jabarin
Eric Lui vs Pavol Lisy
Nuttakrit vs Gansheng Shi
Artem Kachanovskyi vs Mateusz Surma

There are several family affairs going on in these prelims. The father-daughter 3-some of Kim Seongrae, Kim Cheayoung, Kim Dayoung all advanced to next round. They will play Paek Seongho, Gao Xing and Li He respectively. The Korean father-son combo Choi Kyubyeong and Choi Youngchan also both advanced. The Japanese father-son pair not so lucky. Dad Komatsu Hideki won both rounds but the son Komatsu Daiki lost in the first round.

Round 3 will be played tomorrow July 1st.

Komatsu Hideki continues to win today, by a big margin. It seems that he is always a strong contender for the senior group over the past few years! Both Yu Bin and Seo Bongsoo are not in his group, so IMO he could be the favourite to qualify for his group.

Third round is done. Biggest upset is probably Mi Yuting's loss to Hwang Jaeyeon 4p. Newly minted Chunlan Cup champion Tan Xiao also lost to Xue Guanhua 2p. Another world champion Jiang Weijie lost too, but maybe not as surprisingly, because his opponent is 17 year old Zhao Chenyu 5p, who is quite comfortable facing world champions. Zhao 5p plays for Team Jiangsu in the A-League. After beating world champion Shi Yue in the first round of A-League this year, he was promoted to captain's position, and promptly beat Ke Jie and Zhou Ruiyang in the next two rounds. It will be interesting to see how far he can go in this tournament.

In the world group, after beating AGA pro Ryan Li Victor Chow beat European pro Ali Jabarin. Eric Lui beat Pavol Lisy. Nuttakrit lost to Gansheng Shi, Artem Kachanovskyi lost to Mateusz Surma. Chow will play Lui, Shi will play Surma in the semi-final of Group Q.

After 3 rounds, the count for the big 4 Go Associations is as follows: China 29, Korea 40, Japan 2, Chinese Taipei 1. All 14 amateurs are out (there were 3 left in round 3).

There is no rest day. The group semi-final round will be played on July 2nd. Interesting match ups include Lian Xiao vs Kang Dongyun and Dang Yifei vs Weon Seongjin.

kimidori wrote:Komatsu Hideki continues to win today, by a big margin. It seems that he is always a strong contender for the senior group over the past few years! Both Yu Bin and Seo Bongsoo are not in his group, so IMO he could be the favourite to qualify for his group.

Yes I think he has a good chance too. He will play Kim Kihun next. Yu Bin lost to Oya Koichi in Group O so Japan could have two qualifiers.

Of the 3 players in the Kim family, dad and big sis won, little sis Kim Dayoung lost to Li He 5p. Next round will bring some tough tests for the Kim family. Kim Seongrae will play Seo Bongsoo, Kim Cheayoung will play China's top female player Yu Zhiying. In the Choi family dad won but son lost.

The semi-final round saw several world champions gone for both China and Korea. In the key match ups Lian Xiao beat 2 time world champion Kang Dongyun while the reigning LG cup champion Dang Yifei lost to Weon Seongjin. Zhao Chenyu 5p continued his run to the main tournament by beating yet another world champion Paek Hongseok. Next up for Zhao 5p is aforementioned Weon Seongjin, 2011 Samsung Cup champion. Other world champions out of the tournament include Kim Jiseok and Gu Li.

In the world group Victor Chow beat another pro Eric Lui. He will play Mateusz Surma in the group final, who himself is also in good form after winning 4 in a row in last month's China C-League.

After 4 rounds, the count for the big 4 Go Associations is as follows: China 14, Korea 20, Japan 1, Chinese Taipei 1. 3 group finals are all Chinese affair, 6 group finals are between Koreans.

Final round will be played on July 3rd. Interesting match ups include Zhou Ruiyang vs Lee Donghoon and Gu Zihao vs Choi Cheolhan.

Komatsu Hideki beat Choi Kihun to keep Japan's hope alive. He will play Choi Kyubyeong, dad of the Choi family. In the Kim family, dad Kim Seongrae lost to Seo Bongsoo, but daughter Kim Cheayoung scored the biggest upset so far in the women's group by beating China's number one Yu Zhiying.

Edit: I am also keeping a close eye on Meng Tailing 6p, my favorite (and many other Chinese Go fan's favorite) Go commentator. He beat Lee Yeongkyu 9p in the semi-final in a thrilling fighting game in 114 moves. He will play Chen Zijian 4p in the group final. I have attached the game file below:

It seems Gorating isn't including the games from preliminary rounds because go4go database doesn't have them; somewhat unfortunate because these are real official games with matches against top level pros.

Some of them are included but some of them are not. Maybe they include only games between professionals

pookpooi wrote:Some of them are included but some of them are not. Maybe they include only games between professionals

They only include games with a kifu, and not all games from the preliminary have a game recorder.

Mateusz beat Victor to win the world group and progress to the main tournament. Well done him, great results recently!

Final round is finished. In couple of key match ups, Zhou Ruiyang lost to Lee Donghoon, Choi Cheolhan lost to Gu Zihao. And Zhao Chenyu 5p beat Weon Seongjin, the third world champion he faced, to reach the main tournmanet. Fan Tingyu and Shi Yue also lost, which means no world champion qualified in the open groups.

In the world group Victor Chow could not beat the last pro he faced, losing to Mateusz Surma. Surma will play in the main tournament in September.

Komatsu Hideki indeed beat Choi Kyubyeong to be the lone Japanese Player to qualify through prelims. Kim Cheayoung also qualified by beating Kim Soojin 4p. Korean female number one player Choi Jeong lost to Li He 5p.

Meng Tailing 6p lost to Chen Zijian 4p.

The following players will join the seeded players in the main tournament.

China: Tong Mengcheng, Gu Zihao, Zhao Chenyu, Xue Guanhua, Li Weiqing, Yang Dingxin, Chen Zijian, Li He
Korea: Song Taekon, Park Jinsol, An Sungjoon, Han Taehee, Byun Sangil, Lee Donghoon, Shin Minjun, Seo Bongsoo, Kim Cheayoung
Japan: Komatsu Hideki
Poland: Mateusz Surma

■ Seeded players(Main tournament)
ㆍFinal 4 of last year: Ke Jie, Tuo Jiaxi, Fan Yunruo, Lee Sedol
ㆍKorea : Park Yeonghun, Park Junghwan, Ahn Kukhyun, Shin Jinseo
ㆍChina : Tang Weixing, Chen Yaoye
ㆍJapan : Iyama Yuta, Yamashita Keigo
ㆍ1 wild card (TBD)

■ Main Tournament;
. Round of 32: 9/5 - 9/7/17
ㆍRound of 16: 9/25/17
ㆍRound of 8: 9/27/17
ㆍSemi Final(3 games): 11/6 - 11/8/17
ㆍFinal(3 games): 12/5 - 12/7/17

None of the world champions participated in the prelims passed. 2 top female players also eliminated (from their female groups). What a hard tournament!

kimidori wrote:None of the world champions participated in the prelims passed. 2 top female players also eliminated (from their female groups). What a hard tournament!

None of gorating's top twenty who took part of the prelim made it through. And there were eleven of them.
Mi, Choi, Tan, Shi, Lian, Zhou, Fan (Tingyu), Kim, Jiang, Xie and Huang...

That's a big surprise.

I hope the wild card goes to DeepZen or FineArt.

Can anyone here tell us more about Zhao Chenyu 5p? Seems like a great performance. Any background on him?