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C'mon. I thought Araban's point was fine. Hirata obviously has a huge wealth of accumulated experience and talent. It's no surprise that he can play very well. But it's also not at all surprising if his age leads to inconsistency. Maybe it's not expected that he'll lose to a European 4d, but it's not quite a shock.

hyperpape wrote:Maybe it's not expected that he'll lose to a European 4d

Aha

hyperpape wrote:but it's not quite a shock.

Well, no one said that I remember that 20 yrs ago Schlemper defeated both Japan's and China's representatives. THAT was a shock

Adrian

P.S. I'll stop here. This discussion is already pointless. At least to me...

hyperpape wrote:C'mon. I thought Araban's point was fine.

I assumed it was a joke, actually.

Hirata obviously has a huge wealth of accumulated experience and talent. It's no surprise that he can play very well. But it's also not at all surprising if his age leads to inconsistency.

It is to me. In my experience older players are generally more consistent than younger players.

Maybe it's not expected that he'll lose to a European 4d, but it's not quite a shock.

It's not? I would consider it one of the most unexpected results I have ever seen at that level of play.

HermanHiddema wrote:It's not? I would consider it one of the most unexpected results I have ever seen at that level of play.

Agreed

What do you think, does Hirata have any chance of winning the tournament? That would be really great, but I doubt it, because of his bad SOS...

LovroKlc wrote:What do you think, does Hirata have any chance of winning the tournament? That would be really great, but I doubt it, because of his bad SOS...

I do not think he can make up the SOS difference to China or Korea at this point, so the only way it can happen is if China's Bai Baoxiang loses to Eric Lui the next round, and Taiwan beats Korea as well. And even then it is unlikely.

According to the broadcast on World Baduk, Eric Lui just crushed the Taiwanese challenger. He should get 3rd place in the WAGC. He's had to face France, China, Korea, and Taiwan and by no means had a easy way through the WAGC. Congrats to Eric and USA for highest finish the USA ever got!!! To the streets my fellow Americans!

Final results: http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/wor ... esult.html

Congrats to China, Korea and USA

Also the result of the Polish 4d player is remarkable (13th place). He is the one using that special strategy against stronger players

Thank you Japan for another great event

Congrats to Thomas Debarre too. Still young, and 4th ! There will be some strong players in the years to come in France too !

I would like to see Debarre(France) vs Chwedyna (Poland). Go Poland !

Tryphon wrote:Congrats to Thomas Debarre too. Still young, and 4th !

Right, nice result

You can review the game he won against the KGS star KGHIN, commented by Yamashiro 9p:
http://ranka.intergofed.org/?p=5624

Thanks for the link.

So far, I've seen only one game of the polish representative on the official site. Are there others somewhere ?

http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/wor ... cords.html

Here are all recorded games.

Tryphon wrote:Thanks for the link.

So far, I've seen only one game of the polish representative on the official site. Are there others somewhere ?

Here are some of the games played by Kamil a.k.a. "fisz":

http://baduk.pl/games/tagged_with/fisz

Ireland finished ahead of the UK with 4 wins from 8, a cause for celebration