Life In 19x19

Apparently, not l'ong after the previous post, Fitrah/Phytrah became 2p and seems to be on League C of the major tournaments. Fukang became 3p last year, and seems to be on all kinds of levels (leagues A, B or C).

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You know there's a print book in English, right, by Mr. Fairbairn?

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A couple years ago I got an old copy of Maeda's 3-book(let) set of tsumego. For 1001 reasons, I've been barely able to touch It, and I just realized it's printed in Western order. Does anyone know why?

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As far as I have been able to understand, this firm is a sort of secondary branch from Kuroki Goishi Ten, that deals in 2nd hand refurbished Japanese material.

Er... I have a mail from back when I started this, and the chairman of that other company WAS a member of Kurokigoishiten, but they're ...

Just to wet the appetite, I seem to have a short score of Western player games against Kansai Kiin pros. They're old-ish, from the 13th Sankei in 2016-17, but it's what I have. I think I got them, a few years ago, from a Japanese site.

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Apparently, there's a match being prepared between the Kansai Kiin and European pros. I don't know if there'll be KK&NK qualified Europeans. Source is...
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I've been reading some Japanese Go history, of late. Sometimes, a rereading of Shuei's life, sometimes I would advance some on Segoe's biography... you know the drill. And I keep having a bit of the same feeling time and again.

If we assume that pros, in the old system, were 4d and above, and we ...

Sadaharu has commented it on twitter, with much better insight.

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I'm still watching it, but I had my phone run the graph. Now, it's a phone KataGo, read by a DDK, so take this with a jar of salt or two, but the losing move is an answer to a monkey jump.

Really, really tight game.

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Now, this was a CLOSE one.

In the same way Europeans had more chances in the Amateur one, Japan had more chances in the professional one, having half the slots in the tournament. Even so...

(;EV[7th Senko Cup World Go Women's Championship, final]
DT[2025-03-16]
PB[Choi Jeong]BR[9p]
PW[Ueno Risa ...

I was looking for the SGF on the Pro section, which was finishing as I woke up this morning. Apparently, the Ama tournament already finished on Friday, and we have a European winner, by resignation (I assume; it's one of those "wins without counting" of old). Now, I'll grant that with 3/8 of the ...

Try entering the moves into an SGF editor from memory at the end of the day. On a first go, you might only get the first 20 or 30 moves. But with practice, you'll be surprised at how easy it is to remember 100 moves, even several hours later. (I was sceptical the first time someone told me this ...

Oh dear, you took me very literally! It's not just the position I want to look at. It's the flow of the game: how you respond to the opponent's moves, how you make decisions, the process by which you got to that position. I was hoping for a game record move by move, whether it's SGF or handwritten ...

I'm trying something newish, for me, and start studying a pro game a month, using something that's celebrated that particular month. Last Thursday, Sugiuchi-sensei, 8th dan, oldest active Go player, had her 98th birthday. Some 30 [31] years ago, she had a final against Ogawa Tomoko, of NHK and Ishi ...

Question...

I'm only, fuzzily, aware of the Japanese ratio, but... what's the ratio of male/female pros in China and Korea?

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