Life In 19x19

6/17 - Ceremony and pairing
6/18 - round of 32
6/20 - round of 16

Korea
Seeded- Lee Changho, Lee Sedol, Park Junghwan, Kang Dongyoon, Choi Chulhan, Won Seongjin
Advanced through prelim - Lee Younggu, Choi Kihoon, Park Seunghwa, Na Hyun

China
Seeded - Jiang Weijie, Gu Li, Xie He, Piao Wenyao, Shi Yue
Advanced through prelim - Zhou Heyang, Kong Jie, Liu Xing, Niu Yutian, Tan Xiao, Li Kang, Meng Tailing, Chun Guangya, Peng Liyao, Lian Xiao, Dang Yifei, Li Xuanhao

Japan
Seeded - Yoda Norimoto, Cho U, Yuki Satoshi, Sakai Hideyuki

Taiwan
Seeded - Xiao Zhenghao



***** Korea hasn't won this tournament for the last 4 years.

This will be the 17th cup. The previous winners were ( courtesy of Sensei's Library )

sensei's library wrote:

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                                Winner     Winner's country     2nd place      score

1st    (Jun 1996 - May 1997)    Yi Ch'ang-ho    S Korea      Yu Ch'ang-hyeok    3-0
2nd    (Jun 1997 - Mar 1998)    O Rissei        Japan        Yu Ch'ang-hyeok    3-2
3rd    (Jun 1998 - May 1999)    Yi Ch'ang-ho    S Korea      Ma Xiaochun        3-0
4th    (Jun 1999 - May 2000)    Yu Bin          China        Yu Ch'ang-hyeok    3-1
5th    (Jun 2000 - May 2001)    Yi Ch'ang-ho    S Korea      Yi Se-tol          3-2
6th    (Jun 2001 - Apr 2002)    Yu Ch'ang-hyeok S Korea      Cho Hun-hyeon      3-2
7th    (Apr 2002 - Mar 2003)    Yi Se-Tol       S Korea      Yi Ch'ang-ho       3-1
8th    (Jun 2003 - Apr 2004)    Yi Ch'ang-ho    S Korea      Mok Chin-Seok      3-1
9th    (May 2004 - Apr 2005)    Cho U           Japan        Yu Bin             3-1
10th   (May 2005 - Apr 2006)    Gu Li           China        Chen Yaoye         3-2
11th   (May 2006 - Mar 2007)    Zhou Junxun     Taiwan       Hu Yaoyu           2-1
12th   (May 2007 - Feb 2008)    Yi Se-Tol       S Korea      Han Sanghoon       2-1
13th   (May 2008 - Feb 2009)    Gu Li           China        Yi Se-Tol          2-0
14th   (May 2009 - Feb 2010)    Kong Jie        China        Yi Ch'ang-ho       2-0
15th   (May 2010 - Feb 2011)    Piao Wenyao     China        Kong Jie           2-0
16th   (May 2011 - Feb 2012)    Jiang Weijie    China        Yi Ch'ang-ho       2-0
 

Does anyone know why the Japanese entrants do not include Yamashita Keigo, Iyama Yuta, or Takao Shinji? My off the cuff guess would be that the three of them, along with Cho U, would constitute the four strongest Japanese players.

EDIT: And on the Chinese team, I would have expected Kong Jie to be seeded.

Joaz Banbeck wrote:Does anyone know why the Japanese entrants do not include Yamashita Keigo, Iyama Yuta, or Takao Shinji? My off the cuff guess would be that the three of them, along with Cho U, would constitute the four strongest Japanese players.

I would say Yuki Satoshi and Takao Shinji are fairly close in results. Sakai Hideyuki is also up there. I'm guessing since Yamashita and Iyama are busy with Honinbo right now, it's just too big a distraction. Except for those two, I think you have the top level Japanese players participating. I'd like to see Hane Naoki over Yoda Norimoto, but he has had good international result previously.

6/17 - Ceremony and pairing
6/18 - round of 32
6/20 - round of 16

How does the pairing work? Is there a random draw, like the drawing of slips of paper with numbers on them in Hikaru no Go?

Over the past decade, six years, Cho's results in international competition are actually better than Hane and Takao.

And Hane is a bit stronger than Takao, it seems.

When people say that pros are "too busy" with this or that, is the issue that the schedules for the games actually overlap, or that they don't want emotions coming off one tournament to interfere with the next, or that they cram material that will help them fight off their adversary....?

jts wrote:When people say that pros are "too busy" with this or that, is the issue that the schedules for the games actually overlap, or that they don't want emotions coming off one tournament to interfere with the next, or that they cram material that will help them fight off their adversary....?

This one is easy this time...

LG Cup 6/17,6/18,6/20
Honinbo 6/18-6/19, 6/24-6/25

Other times pros have all kind of league matches to fit in to schedules.

Looking forward to watching this on Tygem, this is the year Park Junghwan will take it for Korea .

wowh. Park Jung Hwan is participating too?
it will be interesting.. I'll just wait for the kifu at guru site.

Paiting,

Piao Wenyao vs Lian Xiao
Chun Guangya vs Park Junghwan
Shi Yue vs Yuki Satoshi
Xie He vs Choi Cheolhan
Jiang Weijie vs Cho U
Li Kang vs Yoda Norimoto
Gu Li vs Park Seunghwa
Niu Yutian vs Choi Kihoon
Tan Xiao vs Won Seongjin
Dang Yifei vs Na Hyun
Zhou Heyang vs Xiao Zhenghao
Kong Jie vs Lee Sedol
Peng Liyao vs Sakai Hideyuki
Meng Tailing vs Kang Dongyoon
Li Xuanhao vs Lee Younggu
Liu Xing vs Lee Changho


Signed board.

For picture, follow link.
http://www.cyberoro.com/news/news_view.oro?num=516701

http://www.tygem.com/news/news/viewpage ... &findword=

trout wrote:For picture, follow link.
http://www.cyberoro.com/news/news_view.oro?num=516701

http://www.tygem.com/news/news/viewpage ... &findword=

Ah, from the pictures, the pairing method is to choose a fan with your opponent's number on it. A little classier than the pieces of paper in the shodan tournament in Hikaru, but same idea.

eoi wrote:

trout wrote:For picture, follow link.
http://www.cyberoro.com/news/news_view.oro?num=516701

http://www.tygem.com/news/news/viewpage ... &findword=

Ah, from the pictures, the pairing method is to choose a fan with your opponent's number on it. A little classier than the pieces of paper in the shodan tournament in Hikaru, but same idea.

In the pictures from Oro, who is the player with the wrinkly blue polo shirt and sweatpants?!

Isn't that Yoda? He's 6 on the chart (paired against Li Kang).

Yes, it's Yoda Norimoto.

You can get the schedule for this week's games here: http://gogameguru.com/baduk-tv-guide/ if you want to watch live.