Life In 19x19

MLily's semifinal is actually best of 3. Mi and Xie won game 1.

Both Mi and Xie won game 2 as well and will meet in the final. Mi won his only world title in the 1st MLily Cup, while Xie is looking for his breakthrough after getting into the semifinal here last year.

Final: Mi Yuting vs. Xie Ke (Time TBD)

The final (best of 5) started a few days ago, and it's 1:1 after two games. Michael Redmond has been doing live commentaries in his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRJyag ... dgA/videos.

Redmond made a live comment on game 3
https://youtu.be/eJP-gqUPAoc
John F. made a remark in another thread about the AI style and territory but Mi Yuting won game 1 with a giant moyo and game 3 getting territory in the center from a severe attack. I've seen Shin Jinseo and Gu Zhihao do the same. I think it's not that a center or thickness oriented game is impossible now, but it's more that it has to be realistic. (Which I think was a feature of the best Takemiya also rather than his 'romantic' play)

White won the five games on the final and so Mi Yuting wins his second MLily Cup.
Game 5 featured a huge center territory by B, followed by huge ko exchanges.