Life In 19x19

Funny how the Japan Times article makes the same mistake as xhu98's graphics for the AGA stream saying Cho has "only" 74 titles when he now has at least 83. I figured the source for that might be the English wikipedia article (which is largely a copy-paste of an old version of the sensei's library article, which itself is largely sourced from Dutch Cho Chikun fan Jan van Rongen: http://rongen17.home.xs4all.nl/Cho/index.html) but that says 73. I wonder where it comes from. I suppose you could discount pair go titles like the Ricoh Pair Go Cup (3 times) or the veterans' Igo Masters cup (3 times) but that still gives him more than 73 (which was the correct figure in 2003 when SL was most active and did include Hayago titles).

On a related note: https://xkcd.com/978/

I guess the 74 titles is the official count by the Nihon Ki-in and the extra titles don't pass some arbitrary criteria. See http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/player/htm/ki000004.html

Cheers,
Vesa

Yeah, they used 74 titles in the japanese commentary as well.

Also, a bit more info regarding the resign:

The winrate on the stream showed 60%. However, Zen's actual winrate was 50.1%, and in reality, that means less than 40% because Zen is overly optimistic. Hideki has been tweaking and making zen reevaluating the whole game, and after seeing how Zen's winrate was continuously dropping and playing bad moves, he decided to resign for Zen.

Ke Jie and Tang Weixing both played out sequences to show that Zen had no chance, with Ke Jie saying something like "Zen's resign was not wrong. In fact, it was the most brilliant move Zen played in these 3 games, since it demonstrated considerable reading."

ZenAuthor said Zen v.13.0 for the first two games and v.13.1 for the third game. (13.1 is a little bit stronger than 13.0)

idontgetit wrote:Hideki has been tweaking and making zen reevaluating the whole game

Could you expand on this? If Hideki was giving human input to Zen while the game was going on, then it seems wrong to call the match "Cho vs Zen"!

Game 3
Comments by Michael Redmond/Antti Tormänen (I think we didn't have this here yet, did we?)

This YouTube playlist has all three videos commented by Michael Redmond/Antti Tormänen as well as the three original Japanese videos with comments by (AFAIK) … game 1: Ichiriki Ryo; game 2: Takao Shinji; game 3: Iyama Yuta



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And just to have ALL videos in one place, here are the AGA videos with comments by #Myungwan_Kim:
#1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erUj3iO5ybg
#2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkRf3JDwfKc (title frame says »Game 1«, don’t let it fool you)
#3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nqp9V7Wwxc


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