Life In 19x19

xiayun wrote:The full broadcast from CCTV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WV6ZAxM0Y8. The ending mistake happened at 1:44:25, and in this one you could clearly hear Ke Jie saying the Chinese equivalent of f-word.

Ke Jie now knows how Master Fujisawa felt on a few too many ocassions.

Althought it's not as bad as the blunder committed by Nakano Yasuhiro.

Re-live the moment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt1FvPxmmfE

Ke Jie apologized on Weibo after for losing his cool, but everyone pretty much understood how he felt, not to mention it costed him ~$60K. Gu Li called it the biggest blunder of year (if we use Lunar calendar, this was basically the last game of the year), and based on his ranking, one could make the argument that this is the most unlikeliest blunder ever.

Ke Jie also made a bad blunder against Zhang Tao in Cctv cup a couple of years ago.

A new domestic tournament, Champion of Champions, is being played right now. 8 players, double elimination.

Round 1:
Ke Jie vs. Mi Yuting
Gu Zihao vs. Lian Xiao
Fan Tingyu vs. Chen Yaoye
Xie Erhao vs. Tan Xiao

It just happened that the initial draw pitted the top 4 ranked Chinese players against each other.

After his recent strong showing in the Chinese A League and the IMSA Elite Mind Games, Ke Jie is on the top of the world again! Reign of Ke Jie, part 2 perhaps?

WindCaliber wrote:After his recent strong showing in the Chinese A League and the IMSA Elite Mind Games, Ke Jie is on the top of the world again! Reign of Ke Jie, part 2 perhaps?

I still consider him better than Shin Jinseo because he has a better head to head the last couple of years, but Jinseo has been winning a lot of games.

Ke Jie is playing Lian Xiao today, I think it's the first game of the 4th Qisheng title match. Zhou Ruiyang won the first edition and defended Lian Xiao's challenge in the 2nd edition, but not the 3rd. Ke currently only has 1 domestic title, the South-West Qiwang. Lian Xiao, Mi Yuting and Gu Zihao have 2 each.

Update: Ke lost by 1/4 zi. His attack on a centre group ended up neither killing or making much profit and yike bot estimated him 26 points behind at that time but he managed to make 2 invasions to make it closer but not enough.

Uberdude wrote: Update: Ke lost by 1/4 zi. His attack on a centre group ended up neither killing or making much profit and yike bot estimated him 26 points behind at that time but he managed to make 2 invasions to make it closer but not enough.

What is 1/4 zi? I never heard of that term before

It's the unit of chines counting when you see how far Black is from 180.5. So double it to get point difference. (When you see Chinese komi described as 3.75 it's in zi).

Ke Jie won the second game by 2.5 points to set up a decider.

And Ke Jie won the final game by resign to take the Qisheng title. It was close and he was even behind for much of the middlegame but took the lead as the fighting reached a climax, maybe Lian was in overtime?

Uberdude wrote:And Ke Jie won the final game by resign to take the Qisheng title. It was close and he was even behind for much of the middlegame but took the lead as the fighting reached a climax, maybe Lian was in overtime?

Yeah, Lian Xiao was on his last byoyomi, and Ke Jie mentioned post-game it influenced his decision to go for the complicated exchange even though he knew it was unlikely to work.

Ke Jie hasn't played much since he started university, but he beat Park Junghwan in the MLy cup to make the quarter finals, and yesterday beat Zhou Ruiyang by 1 point in the first game of the Chinese Chanqi cup final. The second game of the best-of-three is tomorrow.

Ke Jie won the 2nd game and thus the Chanqi cup. There were some ups and downs in the opening and early middlegame, but once the big stakes fighting erupted the variations were a knife edge between success and failure but Ke Jie was on the right side and ended up with a crushing victory.

Ke Jie is playing in the Chinese league finals right now Vs Ding Hao. He massively messed up a 3-3 invasion joseki after he tenukid and died (ladder doesn't quite work and yes he really played a8). Yikebot put him 20 points behind. But he fought back and now it's about even again!