Baek Hongseok defeated Niu Yutian by 0.5.
Xie He defeated Liu Xing by resign.

Park Younghoon defeated Lee Wonyoung by resign.
Dang Yfei defeated Tan Xiao by resign.

Park Yeonghun's skill with weak groups and invasions gives me chills. I thought this was a very cool game.

Yeah it was a bit painful to watch

Hu Yaoyu defeated Mi Yuting by resign.
Zhou Ruiyang defeated Kong Jie by resign.


Pairing for round of 8,

Park Younghoo vs Tang Yifei 4/16/12 10:00
Piao Wenyao vs Chen Yaoe 4/16/12 17:00
Baek Hongseok vs Zhou Ruiyang 4/17/12 10:00
Xie He vs Hu Yaoyu 4/17/12 17:00

Tang Yifei defeated Park Younghoon by resign.
Piao Wenyao defeated Chen Yaoe by resign.

Baek Hongseok defeated Zhou Ruiyang by 1.5.
Hu Yaoyu defeated Xie He by resign.


Round of 4(semi final) will be held 5/9/12.

Pairing for semi final;

Tang Yifei vs Piao Wenyao
Baek Hongseok vs Hu Yaoyu

Only Piao Wenyao has previously won an international title (and only 1, so I wouldn't call him a big favourite), so it looks quite likely we could have a new international title winner.

I'm rooting for Hu Yaoyu, he seems to have fallen out of the spotlight after losing to Zhou Junxun in the finals of the LG Cup 6 years ago. It would be great to see him finally get a world title.

he didnt even make the playoff.
i think the number of strong players have increased and hu yaoyu lost his only chance 6 years ago.

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"The more we think we know about
The greater the unknown"
Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson

I think you confuse the BC card cup with the LG cup. Hu Yaoyu is actually in the semi finals of the former, see above.

Actually it is only one of the competitors in the semi's of the BC card cup, Dang Yifei, that has managed to qualify for the LG cup through the preliminaries. Both Hu Yaoyu and his competitor in the semi, Baek Hongsuk, lost early in the preliminaries, while Piao Wenyao is seeded for the main tournament.

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"The more we think we know about
The greater the unknown"
Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson

Semi final is scheduled as follow.

5/9 Baek Hongseok vs Hu Yaoyu
5/10 Piao Wenyao vs Tang Yifei

Final,

5/12 game 1
5/13 game 2
5/15 game 3
5/16 game 4
5/17 game 5

Baek Hongseok defeated Hu Yaoyu by resign.

Strange game. Hu was leading well into almost end game and neglected right corner and got killed.

Maybe he thought it can be connected to b's right side group by threatening to kill w's middle group. He was short on time also.



Picture is from Oro.

Tang Yifei defeated Piao Wenyao by resign.

Baek Hongseok and Tang Yifei will play finals after one day rest.

Game 1;
Dang Yifei defeated Baek Hongseok by resign.

Game 2;
Baek Hongseok defeated Dang Yifei by resign.

Game 3;
Baek Hongseok defeated Dang Yifei by resign.

Baek is leading 2:1.

I watched Game 3 on Baduk-TV Live. It was exciting and complex. When Dang resigned, his eyes filled with tears,
he helped tidy up the board and then left quickly without a post-mortem. Guess we all know how he felt.