Samsung cup main tournament starts

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Round of 32:
Date 9/2/13-9/5/13(????)
Place Shanghai
Method Double elimination


Korea; Park Younghoon, Han Woonggyu, Song Taegon, Seo Bongsoo, Oh Jeonga,
Lee Minjin
China; Niu Yutian, Qiu Jun, Li Xuanhao, Lian Xiao, Fan Yunruo, Gu Lingyi, Wu Guangya, Tuo Jiaxi, Shi Yue, Ke Jie, Tang Weixing
Japan; Komatsu Hideki
World: Eric Lui

Seeded;
Korea:Park Junghwan, Kim Jiseok, Lee Sedol, Choi Cheolhan, Cho Hanseung, Kang Dongyoon, Ahn Seongjoon
China:Chen Yaoye, Zhou Rouyang, Gu Li
Japan: Yuki Satoshi, Takao Shinji

Wild card (selected by sponsor): Chang Hao

[handa711]

I would prefer a Japanese player instead of Chang Hao for the sponsor spot. Iyama Yuta would makes things quite interesting.

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Lee Minjin(Korea) resigned from Samsung Cup due to upcoming baby delivery(very soon.).

[logan]

Lee Minjin(Korea) resigned from Samsung Cup due to upcoming baby delivery(very soon.).

[macelee]

In the first round, Lee Sedol 9p lost to Chen Yaoye 9p by time, causing a lot of discussions on Go forums. I've compiled a few diagrams from various sources to show what would happen without the time incidence.

http://www.go4go.net/go/games/sgfview/36064

[Dusk Eagle]

Very interesting analysis. Thanks macelee.

[macelee]

There are some fairly interesting games in round 3.

Seo Bongsoo 9p (Black) vs. Wu Guangya 6p (White) http://www.go4go.net/go/games/sgfview/36126

This is the longest ever international game (392 moves) and it has 58 ko captures, which is nearly a record. See http://web.archive.org/web/200810141808 ... ngest.html for reference.

Ke Jie 4p (Black) vs. Choi Cheolhan 9p (White) http://www.go4go.net/go/games/sgfview/36122

This game shows that even player as good as Choi cannot possibly settle multiple weak groups.

Now all 38 newly played Samsung Cup games are available at Go4Go: http://www.go4go.net/go/games/tournament/1

There should be 40 in total, but heavily pregnant Lee Minjin abandoned her games.

[macelee]

For the next round (last 16), the most interesting game is:

AGAIN

Lee Sedol vs Chen Yaoye


Chen revealed his opponent:

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And everyone else amused:

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[LokBuddha]

lol, and where is lee sedol at that time? someone snapped his pic?

[emeraldemon]

I thought the fuseki of the Park Yeonghun vs. Niu Yutian game was very interesting:

$$B Moves 1 to 10
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$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . 7 2 . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . 1 . . . |
$$ | . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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$$ | . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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$$ | . . 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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$$ | . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , 3 . . |
$$ | . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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Click Here To Show Diagram Code

[go]$$B Moves 1 to 10
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$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . 7 2 . . 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . 1 . . . |
$$ | . . . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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$$ | . . 0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . . , 3 . . |
$$ | . . . 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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$$ ---------------------------------------[/go]

A pretty complex fight breaks out involving both pincers at once. I don't know enough joseki to know if these variations are new, but as someone who only really knows the hane-cut variation, they were certainly fun for me to play through.

http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/download/file.php?id=3587&sid=e8c17e4e35ec42e87d0a936782b31c61

[macelee]

emeraldemon, this is a quite popular opening. I've seen other examples, such as this one (which I think is even more interesting):

http://www.go4go.net/go/games/sgfview/34618/18

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Upcoming schedule,

10/8/13 - round of 16
Lee Sedol vs Chen Yaoye
Ahn Seongjoon vs Gu Li
Qiu Jun vs Gu Lingyi
Park Junghwan vs Zhou Ruiyang
Ke Jie vs Shi Yue
Lian Xiao vs Wu Guangya
Kim Jiseok vs Fan Yunruo
Park Younghun vs Tang Weixing

10/10/13 - round of 8
11/4,11/6,11/7/13 - Semi final(3 games match)
12/10,12/11,12/12/13 - Final

*** All dates are Korean Time.

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10/8/13 - round of 16

Kim Jiseok defeated Fan Yunruo by resign.


Park Junghwan defeated Zhou Ruiyang by resign.


Tang Weixing defeated Park Younghun by resign.

Qiu Jun defeated Gu Lingyi by resign.


Shi Yue defeated Ke Jie by resugn.

Wu Guangya defeated Lian Xiao by resign.


Lee Sedol defeated Chen Yaoye by 0.5.


Ahn Seongjoon defeated Gu Li by resign.

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10/10/13 - round of 8
Pairing;
Lee Sedol vs Qiu Jun
Ahn Seongjoon vs Wu Guangya
Park Junghwan vs Shi Yue
Kim Jiseok vs Tang Weixing

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10/10/13 - round of 8
Results;
Lee Sedol defeated Qiu Jun by resign.
Wu Guangya defeated Ahn Seongjoon by resign.
Tang Weixing defeated Kim Jiseok by resign.
Shi Yue defeated Park Junghwan by resign.