Life In 19x19

Mi Yuting got a tough draw but advanced. Hope to see him shine after getting very few chances to even make any international tournaments the last couple of years.

Shi Yue lost to Choi again!

Korean players are doing pretty well, and Iyama Yuta also advanced. Shaping up to be an exciting round of 16.

Kim Jiseok won a ridiculous game, he died loads on the opening, then sacrificed some more bits (for now) for a huge moyo, Fan Yunruo lived in part of that, then he activated the sacrificed stones, Fan started a ko but didn't take it which was weird (I guess his safety move elsewhere eliminated many threats?) and then played another defensive move I suppose some bad aji of the dead stones, and Kim launched an attack on a huge dragon which he somehow managed to kill!
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/18450/1/15851929

Park Junghwan also got pretty lucky I think, he pulled some magic off inside Tong Mengcheng's territory as the dame were filling.
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/18445/1/15843114

Iyama just dominated with an interesting early ko fight, his opp did that ko threat generation strategy of make another fight somewhere else but the generated ko threats ended up being bigger than the ko so Iyama could won the ko anyway.
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/18457/1/15855154

And yes, impressive from Choi Jeong again. Not many can have a 2-0 record vs Shi Yue.
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/18439/1/15836366

Shin Jinseo died but then killed the surrounding group first because big eye has lots of libs.
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/18442/1/15837812

Pairing for round of 16;

Park Junghwan vs Dang Yifei
Shin Jinseo vs Mi Yuting
Kim Jieseok vs Tu Xiaoyu
Byun Sangil vs Tao Xinran
Choi Jeong vs Peng Liao
Ke Jie vs Iyama Yuuta
Chen Yaoye vs Zhao Chenyu
Tan Xiao vs Xu Jiayang

Anybody can tell me the date of next LG round ?
For those who have missed it there is a comment of some games live by Kim YoonYoung here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqV8N6thS1E

ptitlou wrote:Anybody can tell me the date of next LG round ?

5/29.

thanks!

Round of 16;

Park Junghwan defeated Dang Yifei by resign.
Shin Jinseo defeated Mi Yuting by 3.5.
Kim Jieseok defeated Tu Xiaoyu by resign.
Tao Xinran defeated Byun Sangil by resign.
Peng Liao defeated Choi Jeong by resign.
Ke Jie defeated Iyama Yuuta by resign.
Chen Yaoye defeated Zhao Chenyu by resign.
Xu Jiayang defeated Tan Xiao by resign.

Xu Jiayang is another rising star from China.

Look like Ke Jie is going to pull this one out after being behind early.

Pretty stacked final 8 comparing to what we normally see: 4 world champions + the world No. 1 + Xin'ao Cup runner-up (pushed Ke Jie to the limit) + a young top 10 player, with Tao Xinran filling that default random Chinese player slot just because they're so deep.

Yeah, up to now it is the most interesting tournament in years. In semi I would like to see Ke Jie vs Sin Jinseo and Park Junghwan vs Chen Yaoye. I believe they are the strongest at the moment.

Pairing for round of 8;

Park Junghwan vs Peng Liao
Shin Jinseo vs Xu Jiayang
Kim Jieseok vs Tao Xinran
Ke Jie vs Chen Yaoye

Round of 8: 10/28/19
Round of 4: 10/30/19

Also it is fascinating to see how Kim Jiseok pulled himself together after devastating three losses to Sin Jinseo just a few days before.

Ouch, wished Chen Yaoye could have matched up with one of the Korean big 3. This does guarantee an experienced Chinese player to go through, but also increased the likelihood of 1 vs. 3 in the semi.

Mi Yuting's game vs Shin Jinseo was fun, just like his last one vs Fan Tingyu he had a massive semeai which ended in a seki, and this time he went for walkies through Shin's territory but Shin ended up recapturing that tail and had more points.
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/18496/1/15909490

The Yike bot seems to give points lead as well as win% estimates, it identified as a key moment in the Iyama-Ke game the clamp at move 101, dropping win% from from 83 to 67 (big but not unusual) and black points lead from 16 to 9 (surprised me how large the corresponding points change was). Black then had to fight a ko to survive so the white group got to safety too. The AI suggested sequences were to just take care of the black group, let white escape out around the clamp stone but it's not home yet so presumably still quite some value in being unsettled. Also the ko even though lost ended up being quite a few points sente yose for white.
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/18476/1/15870359

trout wrote:Pairing for round of 8;

Park Junghwan vs Peng Liao
Shin Jinseo vs Xu Jiayang
Kim Jieseok vs Tao Xinran
Ke Jie vs Chen Yaoye

Round of 8: 10/28/19
Round of 4: 10/30/19

Small correction—Peng Liyao and Kim Jiseok are mispelled.
Also, is the draw random or does the sponsor reseed after every round? This is great draw for Korea.