Life In 19x19

There is nice article written by An Younggil 8p at GOGAMEGURU.COM.

http://gogameguru.com/japan-strikes-back-18th-lg-cup/

Result of round 16:

Takao Shinji defeated Guo Yuzheng by resign.
Chen Yaoye defeated Kono Rin by resign.
Li Qincheng defeated Mok Jinseok by resign.
Zhou Ruiyang defeated An Choyeong by 2.5.
Tuo Jiaxi defeated Lee Sedol by resign.
Xia Jiankun defeated Kim Seongjin by 2.5.
Li Zhe defeated An Hyungjun by resign.
Iyama Yuta defeated Lee Younggu by 1.5.

6 from China and 2 from Japan advanced to round of 8........

Next round: 11/10/13 - 11/14/13

Round of 8 - 11/11/13
Semi Final - 11/13/13

Well, for a nation (Japan) that's considered the weakest in go nowadays, they did pretty great. That's even more apparent when u see that they only had 4 representatives in the whole tournament ! Maybe if Yamashita Keigo has played they'd have another on in the next round! As for South Korea, this complete upset is very surprising!

Jash wrote:Well, for a nation (Japan) that's considered the weakest in go nowadays, they did pretty great. That's even more apparent when u see that they only had 4 representatives in the whole tournament ! Maybe if Yamashita Keigo has played they'd have another on in the next round! As for South Korea, this complete upset is very surprising!

Well, we can't forget that zero Japanese players advanced through the preliminaries. That was the main reason that there were only four from Japan in the final (China had only five seeded players, see the OP). Nevertheless, the results so far make it look like the right two guys are fighting it out back home in the Honinbo.

Iyama & Takao's latest matches:

Well, we can't forget that zero Japanese players advanced through the preliminaries. That was the main reason that there were only four from Japan in the final (China had only five seeded players, see the OP). Nevertheless, the results so far make it look like the right two guys are fighting it out back home in the Honinbo.

Well, the problem is that top Japanese players (e.g Yamashita, Cho U...) don't usually play preliminaries of international tournament. Or they get seed, or they don't participate. If Japan can get good result in this LG Cup, I hope this will change.

In the preliminaries, I see some hopeful Japanese names like Murakawa Daisuke, Anzai Nobuaki or Fujita Akihiko, but they're all knock-out.

By the way, it was a shame that all Korean lost on their homeland.

Go Iyama, I don't want to see China dominates the Go world!!

Interesting fact from GoGameGuru (a second article on the round of 16): the last time Japan had a player in the quarterfinals was Kono Rin in 2008, when he defeated Han Sanghoon and Baek Hongsuk.

He also had a big win when he beat Gu Li in the Fujitsu back in 2009.

Pairing for quarter final,

Chen Yaoye vs Iyama Yuta
Tuo Jiaxi vs Takao Shinji
Li Qincheng vs Zhou Ruiyang
Li Zhe vs Xia Jiankun

trout wrote:Pairing for quarter final,

Chen Yaoye vs Iyama Yuta
Tuo Jiaxi vs Takao Shinji
Li Qincheng vs Zhou Ruiyang
Li Zhe vs Xia Jiankun

Incredibly tough match-ups for the two Honinbo challengers - playing the top two players in China!

Reminder.....
Quarter final - 11/11/13


Chen Yaoye vs Iyama Yuta
Tuo Jiaxi vs Takao Shinji
Li Qincheng vs Zhou Ruiyang
Li Zhe vs Xia Jiankun

trout wrote:Chen Yaoye vs Iyama Yuta

Really looking forward to this! My favourite modern chinese player against my favourite modern japanese player : ) I already replayed Chen Yaoye's first two games in the LG Cup and it felt like he could handle these players quite good. Japan's hope seems to be a tougher challenge =)

trout wrote:Pairing for quarter final,

Chen Yaoye vs Iyama Yuta
Tuo Jiaxi vs Takao Shinji
Li Qincheng vs Zhou Ruiyang
Li Zhe vs Xia Jiankun

One Chinese name should be Xia Chenkun (夏晨琨). The wrong name has been used everywhere, including 19x19, gogameguru and several online sgf 'collections'.

Also it would be nice to change the order of the 3rd and 4th pairs above to reflect the order of players in that photo.

trout wrote:Reminder.....
Quarter final - 11/11/13


Chen Yaoye vs Iyama Yuta
Tuo Jiaxi vs Takao Shinji
Li Qincheng vs Zhou Ruiyang
Li Zhe vs Xia Jiankun

What time do these games begin?

I am particularly excited to see Li Zhe's game. He doesn't play as much as the other top players, but he's creative and original - deeply inspired by the games of Go Seigen.

He's also a philosopher, currently undertaking graduate studies at Beida. The other Beijing pros see him as being extremely talented but quirky.

macelee wrote:One Chinese name should be Xia Chenkun (夏晨琨). The wrong name has been used everywhere, including 19x19, gogameguru and several online sgf 'collections'.

Also it would be nice to change the order of the 3rd and 4th pairs above to reflect the order of players in that photo.

Actually, I just checked, and we've always referred to this player as Xia Chenkun (http://gogameguru.com/tag/xia-chenkun/) and we don't have any record of any other name used for this player. I'd appreciate it if you didn't vaguely include us in your comment if you haven't checked. It wastes my time going back to check, among other things.

The one time when you you did leave a comment on our site about guoshou vs guoshuo, it was due to a simple typo, so don't just presuppose that we always get everything wrong.

Also, please give trout a break. His focus is on providing news as quickly as possible after it happens, not writing Shakespeare. He's Korean and, as you know, Korean names can be romanized in several different ways, so some ambiguity with Chinese names is understandable. I'm sure he wouldn't always agree with the names you use on Go4Go either, but he doesn't criticize you. Pinyin only became the international standard for Chinese names in the 80s and still isn't used consistently in the wider Asian region, in countries where Chinese is spoken.