Life In 19x19

hyperpape wrote:Funny, I had thought both ideas were already in effect.

I guess I meant something like "once per month, you can have up to 3 free player trades". In the initial rules I wrote up a tax to keep people from trading too frequently on upcoming matches.

emeraldemon wrote:

hyperpape wrote:Funny, I had thought both ideas were already in effect.

I guess I meant something like "once per month, you can have up to 3 free player trades". In the initial rules I wrote up a tax to keep people from trading too frequently on upcoming matches.

I'm not sure I'd want that. Too frequent trades encourages gaming based on the upcoming matches. My ideal would be a yearly draft.

hyperpape wrote:

emeraldemon wrote:

hyperpape wrote:Funny, I had thought both ideas were already in effect.

I guess I meant something like "once per month, you can have up to 3 free player trades". In the initial rules I wrote up a tax to keep people from trading too frequently on upcoming matches.

I'm not sure I'd want that. Too frequent trades encourages gaming based on the upcoming matches. My ideal would be a yearly draft.

I think something like seasonal draft (maybe 6 months; a year is a long time, but is also possible), where you can trade your players out and get new ones at an updated pricing list.

But if new players join, won't we be entering with advance information of who's doing well? shouldn't the prices per player change based on their current standings?

Six months is probably enough. A year has the advantage that since most of the tournaments have yearly cycles, you have almost zero information about who will be playing where.

shapenaji wrote:But if new players join, won't we be entering with advance information of who's doing well? shouldn't the prices per player change based on their current standings?

Well my first instinct was not to award latecomers points for events that have already occurred. But given how far along we are, that'd be a pretty huge handicap. I'll have to think about this a bit more.

Ok, I've added all the Nongshim games, the first Samsung Final game, and the two Meijin league games so far:

points earned by pro: player standings: Here's the Samsung final game, Won Sungjin vs. Gu Li:



It's a pretty epic full-board battle, of course I'd expect no less from Gu Li.

emeraldemon wrote:Ok, I've added all the Nongshim games, the first Samsung Final game, and the two Meijin league games so far: ...

you've missed the second Samsung game, won by Gu Li. tomorrow there is going to be the last one, check trout's thread for result

Thanks Laman, seems Mr Kin's is always a few days behind...

points earned by pro: player standings:

And Won Sungjin took the Samsung Cup!

http://gogameguru.com/won-seongjin-wins ... msung-cup/

points earned by pro: player standings:

Awesome. I feel somewhat evil with this much of a lead.

I'm not sure it'll last, but I'm looking forward to seeing if it does.

A question about the game:

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This sequence in the lower right in game 3 seems much better for black (Won Sungjin) to me. Is it? The corner looks huge.

The next moves here were black moving the N6 stone with move 35, even.

See GoGameGuru for the complete game.

Park Yeonghun won against Baek Hongsuk in the Myeongin finals and so defended his title 3-1 (impressive, given he had to go through the whole knock-out)

Uchida Shuhei lost his first game in the Meijin league to Mizokami Tomochika

still waiting for today's results of Takao-Seto and Kono-Yuki matches from the Honinbo league. (Asahi beats Mainichi)

Honinbo league, 3rd round:
Seto Taiki - Takao Shinji (W+R)
Iyama Yuta (B+R) - Ko Iso
Yuki Satoshi - Kono Rin (W+1.5)

Here's the sgf for the Last Myeongin match:



There's a very interesting ko battle, I'm going to have to study this game more later.

points earned by pro: player standings: Still waiting for the Hane Naoki-Cho U match in the Honinbo League, and the Hane Naoki - Iyama Yuta match in the Meijin League.

Takao Shinji is looking really good: won the challenger match for Kisei, and leading in the Honinbo League at 3-0. Lost to Cho U in the Meijin league though.

Honinbo league:
Cho U beat Hane Naoki by resign

next week:
Meijin league:
Iyama Yuta - Hane Naoki

Tengen-sen: (does it also count?)
Anzai Nobuaki - Cho Chikun
Kobayashi Koichi - Sakai Hideyuki
Yamada Kimio - Kurahashi Masayuki