Did nobody else notice that Fujisawa Kazunari (son of Hideyuki) is cited as teacher for 25 out of the 64 insei listed.

Yeah, I was about to comment about how odd that was as well.

Antti is listed as A class again, 7th place, indicating he finished first in B class last month. He also stopped blogging, which is probably a good sign

And he's on Christmas break in Finland enjoying some cold and snow I think. Maybe he writes something during this time?

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Now again A class, 10th place.

Latest insei ranking:

http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp.e.qs.hp.tran ... ei/joretu/

The top insei qualifier from period stretching from the April-June Was Yoshihiro Koike.

The outsiders qualifier, completed from 1st to the 23rd of August was won by Shimizu Kosuke.

Preliminaries in Semptember.

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Can't wait until "Crossroads Sinter" and "We understand Italy" join the pro ranks.

And apparently, whole universities can register as insei.



note: I always assumed that Mr Fujsawa must have ran a Go school (a very honourable one). Is this the case?

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Why are all the Japanese names in the roman alphabet but the two foreign players in Katakana?

Back in April when the Nihon Ki'in updated its web site, it appears to have switched completely to machine translation for its English pages, with no one doing even a sanity check. This means that there is a great deal of garbage (only some of it mildly amusing) cluttering the site now.

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Who is at #17?

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Nikola Mitic

Presumably, Nikola Mitic from Serbia?

http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/eur ... eams/3/SRB

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A-Class, September:

1-Hirose Yuichi, 14 (this month)
2-Kurita Yushiki, 16
3-Ueno Asami, 13*
4-Suzurika Toshimasa, 17
5-Aoki Hirotaka, 14
6-Törmänen Antti, 26
7-Kawaguchi Hishou, 13
8-Ikemoto Ryouta, 14 (this month)
9-Kuwahara Shun, 16
10-Suzuki Tomohiro, 13

http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp.e.qs.hp.tran ... ei/joretu/
The preliminaries for the Winter pro-exam season has begun. The ten B class insei (including Nikola Mitic) Join 6 outsiders in a round-robin. All A Class insei are seeded into the main round. Let the battle begin.

http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp.e.qs.hp.tran ... _godo.html

*For comparison, Fujisawa Rina 3p never managed to stay in the A class.

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This is rather impressive.

Why do you mark Antti as a 25-year old? Is the Nihon Ki'In counting him as 26 because they use the Japanese age system?

As a side note, why so many 13 years old? The best player younger than 13 is in C class. Seems like a golden generation.



According to Sensei's Library, he runs the Shinjuku Igo Dojo.
http://senseis.xmp.net/?FujisawaKazunari

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Antti is 26 years old by western counting.

I'm not up to date but years ago the Nihon Ki-in established an insei center in Chiba(?). Various established pros were described in the yearbook as insei instructors. Maybe Fujisawa Kazunari is/was such an instructor. Inseis don't have to be disciples (deshis) of anyone but can just get teaching at the insei center.

Oh yes, a mistake was made. I accidentally used the ages in august as well.

Thanks for the link!

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"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.

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/kiin5/e/167a61f51 ... 044077dc35

Short article about Antti getting ready for the tournament

https://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/player/saiy ... onsen.html

Current results for pro tournament. Antti is now 2-0.

I can't read Japanese. In the first round, did Antti win against a non-insei who passed the preliminaries? In his performance last year, he didn't seem to have a chance against these non-inseis, especially the ones who passed the prelims in the end. Looks to me, he stepped up his game.

Is the ordering 1 to 16 by chance, according to strength or alphabet (if it is called that way, anyway)?

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