Fujisawa beat Mukai Chiaki in game 3 on Friday, November 7th to take the title 3-0. At 16 years and 1 month, she is the youngest ever winner of this title, easily surpassing Xie Yimin's previous record of 17 years 11 months. This is Fujisawa's second major title of the year after the Aidu Cup, which she won in June.

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Dave Sigaty
"Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered..."
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Could someone post an sgf, if they have it? I couldn't find it.

Here you go

It's one of the calmest games of Igodou I've ever seen XD good learning material for me. Considering her age, her strength growth seems to be strikingly similar to a korean top proffesionals. It seems Japan would have another (world class) top player in a couple of years (NHK Cup, watch out fo a second time!)

ps: when white moved into the upper right, blacl gained a lot of influence, wasn't that a bit too much influence ?

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On Go proverbs:
"A fine Gotation is a diamond in the hand of a dan of wit and a pebble in the hand of a kyu" —Joseph Raux misquoted.

What is Igodou, other than an attempt to appear superior through use of fancy foreign language?

P.S. I don't think top Koreans will be worrying much yet seeing as this was a female only competition so has a significantly weaker field. Nevertheless well done Fujisawa.

Yep, what else would it be haha, actually, because the game was so peaceful, and since changing "jitsu" to "dou" is a well known tradition of naming a more "serene" version of a martial art (jitsu = "technique", dou = "way of", JU-jitsu, JU-dou, AKI-jitsu, AKI-dou, etc.), and since I consider Igo a martial art,

Whoops! I meant "strongest female players". Of course there are many players who were stronger than Fujisawa 3p at 16 (Choi Jung, for example,)
but the growth rate of her strength indicates a possibility of becoming a top female player (in a global perspective, not just Japan) rivalling Xie 6p (winning the female honinbo is still no joke, especially at this age ) and since Japan has only 1 top professional (globally) and lot's of near-top-pro players , that's what I meant about the NHK Cup.

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On Go proverbs:
"A fine Gotation is a diamond in the hand of a dan of wit and a pebble in the hand of a kyu" —Joseph Raux misquoted.

Actually, 道 (Dō) is not only for martial arts, that's a common misconception. It true that it means literally "Way of"/"Path", although it is used in this context with the English meaning "Art" (not necessarily artistic, but as skill/craft).

The ones that you mention Ju-do, Aiki-do, Karate-do, Ken-do, Kyu-do,... are the Gendai budō (現代武道) or Modern martial art (lit. 現 now/current, 代 era, 武 martial, 道 art/path). But the origin is related to the meditation in Buddhist religion in Japan, as thinks that were learn, practiced and mastered in the Dojo (the meditation room in the Buddhist monastery)... since patiently mastering something by doing it repetitively and improving all details until achieving absolute perfection was the way of getting enlighten (a way to nirvana). Regardless if it was Zen meditation, Tea ceremony, Go or Martial arts.

Lot of things were practiced, and it started taking the meaning of art/craft so it is used widely... Sa-do (The art of Tea ceremony), Sho-do (The art of calligraph), Ii-do (The art of medicine, Ka-do (The art of flower arrangement), Ka-do (The art of tanka poetry), Ga-do (The art of painting)... or even in new words like Ski-do (The Japanese way of skiing).

So the use of Igo-do is actually correct by it self (not being martial related), for example:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm24086214

This makes me sad for Mukai Chiaki. She spent years chasing the title and challenging Xie Yimin and now a teenager snatches it from her after only one year.

Interesting, thanks for the information. Actually, the similar character 進 in the name 進藤 in similar in meaning (進=to advance 道=path/way)

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On Go proverbs:
"A fine Gotation is a diamond in the hand of a dan of wit and a pebble in the hand of a kyu" —Joseph Raux misquoted.

This is very interesting and she is a young player (from my point of view anyway). I wish games like this we could watch a video of, I love watching matches.

She'll have to work her way into the NHK matches. Right now she does the reading of the moves.

I don't see her in Ryusei matches yet either.

Fujisawa Rina defeated Kono Rin by resign. Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Women title holders are qualified (NHK qualification is by titles and prize winning), so next year she will be in the cup. (http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/match/nhk/index-e.html)

I count this game as only B+4.5 (not the reported B+5.5).
What am I missing?

C5 isn't a point for white. This is a general problem with Japanese games where they normally don't fill dame moves.

ah, totally right. I missed that. Thanks!

Do know where I can find that game record, trout? That is indeed amazing!

Here (the game referred to is the one played on the 8th of December I guess).

The game description translates to something like:

"1st Ibero Japan Cup memorial game"

Ibero Japan is a company there. Not sure was being memorised.

If you have a Go4Go account: http://www.go4go.net/go/games/sgfview/45889

I haven't checked this yet, but I suspect it should be more like Ibero Japan Cup Celebration Game, being an exhibition game to make the award ceremony for the Cup. Kono is far too old to play in this event anyway, which is fully titled the Ibero Japan New Stars Cup.

I'm also unsure that Ibero Japan is a Japanese company, as the large, famous one of that name makes tractors, and I imagine there's a law against companies using the same name. The go company is a Spanish travel agency run (?owned) by Mikami Masaru, an amateur 6-dan who helped Spanish go a lot and became an honorary president (or vice-president?) of the Spanish Go Association. Perhaps our Spanish colleagues can tell us more.

It's interesting that a few new tournaments have sprouted up in Japan, and it's just been announced that the Junior Amateur Honinbo is to be allowed into the next Yucho Cup (which really is a Memorial Cup, for the recently late Nakano Koji).

At the same time, Japan has copied Korea and created an alms-bowl tournament called "Over 40s". Rather sad really. Reminds of the Son of Mars who is reduced to being one of the Jolly Beggars:

His doxy lay within his arm.
Wi' usquebae and blankets warm,
She blinket on her sodger.
An' ay he gies the tozie drab
The tither skelpin kiss,
While she held up her greedy gab
Just like an aumous dish.