Preliminary;6/30 - 7/5
General public, Senior and Women group will have 5 rounds.
World group will have 4 rounds.

Main tournament;
round of 32 - 8/30
round of 16 - 8/31
round of 8 - 9/1
round of 4 - 9/2
Final - 9/4, 9/5, 9/6

This year, most players(392 players) will participate in prelim.
After prelim, 14 from general public, 2 from senior and women, and 1 from world will advance to main tournament.

Seeded players; Ke Jie, Xie Erlhao, Tang Weixing(from the last year's semi finalist except Ahn Kukhyun(rules forbid him to participae due to he is in armed service.)), Park Junghwan, Shin Jinseo, Kim Jiseok, Shin Minjoon, Chen Yaoye, Iyama Yuuta, Hsu Chiayuan(Kyo Kagen) and 1 wild card.

Where can we see the bracket?

They aren't there yet, but maybe Mr Kin will add them at https://gotoeveryone.k2ss.info/wr/sc

After two days, the first 7 groups in general public division have finished their first two rounds, and their round 3 matchups are as followed:

Group A
Shi Yue vs. Jiang Qirui
He Yang vs. Dang Yifei
Park Jaekeun vs. Kim Heesoo
Lin Junyan vs. Shin Yoonho

Group B
Heo Jin vs. Kim Minseok
Guo Xinyi vs. Kwon Hyojin
Song Jihoon vs. Mi Yutin
Liao Xingwen vs. Lee Hyungjin

Group C
Park Seunghwa vs. Paek Hongseok
Moon Yubin vs. Jen Youngkyu
Chen Yunong vs. Cao Xiaoyang
Yi Lingtao vs. Kang Seungmin

Group D
Lin Shixun vs. Li Xuanhao
Hu Yaoyu vs. Na Hyun
Park Jeonggeun vs. Han Wonggyu
Heo Yongho vs. Lee Wondo

Group E
Huang Yunsong vs. Kang Woohyuk
Hu Yuhan vs. Rong Yi
Chen Hanqi vs. Gu Li
Kim Myounghoon vs. Fan Tingyu

Group F
Xu Hanwen vs. Koike Yoshihiro
Li Weiqing vs. Han Yizhou
Zhang Ziliang vs. Aoki Hirotaka
Park Jinsol vs. Zhou Ruiyang

Group G
Yun Chanhee vs. Kim Sangcheon
Wu Guangya vs. Zhao Chenyu
Wang Yuanjun vs. Sun Tengyu
Hong Seongji vs. Chen Zijian

The surprise of round 2 was Lin Shixun beating one-time world champion Jiang Weijie. Also in the first round, Choi Cheolhan lost to Muramoto Wataru, and Lian Xiao lost to Moon Yubin.

Round 3 for Group H to N is happening today. This includes Yu Zhiying, who is competing here instead of the women groups.

Diana Koszegi at BIBA has posted some photos of the world group, EGF pros Ali Jabarain, Tanguy le Calve, Andrii Kravets and Mateusz Surma are there as well as several BIBA students.

https://www.facebook.com/diana.koszegi. ... 1057949755

Choi Cheolhan knew tournament date incorrectly and did not arrive to the tournament in time. He has 2 jobs. "Baduk and Poker" He was in Las Vegas.

The rest of Round 3 matchups:

Group H
Lee Yeongkyu vs. Ryu Suhang
Fan Yin vs. Yan Huan
Chen Qirui vs. An Hyungjoon
Onishi Ryuhei vs. Fan Yunruo

Group I
Kang Dongyun vs. Choi Eun-gyu
Hong Mujin vs. Lee Hyeonjun
Kim Yeongdo vs. Zhou Hexi
Lee Changseok vs. Peng Liyao

Group J
Li Qincheng vs. Kang Jihoon
Weon Seongjin vs. Cho Mankyu
Xu Jiayang vs. Ji Xiang
Han Seungjoo vs. Fukuoka Kotaro

Group K
Tong Mengcheng vs. Seol Hyunjun
Yu Zhiying vs. Zhang Tao
Jian Jingting vs. Lee Hyunho
Park Yeonghun vs. Choi Jaeyoung

Group L
Qin Chiyu (Korean amateur player, can't find the exact name) vs. Lee Yoonlan (?)
Liao Yuanhe vs. An Joyeong
Wang Lei vs. Lee Sedol
Wang Zejin vs. Ryu Dongwan

Group M
Yokotsuka Riki vs. Gu Zihao
Chen Xiaonan vs. Lee Juhyung
Xu Haohong vs. Xia Chenkun
Lee Seungjun vs. Lee Jihyun

Group N
Min Sangyoun vs. Choi Youngchan
Kim Kiyoung vs. Ding Hao
Chen Haoxin vs. Zheng Xu
Kim Changhoon vs. Tao Xinran

Also Round 1 result for the world group:

Andrii Kravets beat Karuehawanit Wichrich
Hugh Zhang beat Ariane Ougier
Tanguy Lecalve beat Halim Edwin
Anastasiia Khlepetina beat David Pollitzer
Aaron Ye beat Mateusz Surma
Jie Hui Kwa beat Solal Zemor
Ali Jabarin beat Thibaud Naegele
Zhongxia Zhao beat Cheng Khai Yong


Major upset among the games yesterday: Kim Yeongdo (#674 at GoRatings) beat Tuo Jiaxi.

Down to the last 4 for each group:

Group A
Shi Yue vs. Dang Yifei
Park Jaekeun vs. Lin Junyan

Group B
Heo Jin vs. Guo Xinyi
Song Jihoon vs. Liao Xingwen

Group C
Park Seunghwa vs. Moon Yubin
Cao Xiaoyang vs. Yi Lingtao

Group D
Li Xuanhao vs. Na Hyun
Park Jeonggeun vs. Heo Yongho

Group E
Huang Yunsong vs. Rong Yi
Gu Li vs. Kim Myounghoon

Group F
Xu Hanwen vs. Han Yizhou
Zhang Ziliang vs. Park Jinsol

Group G
Yun Chanhee vs. Zhao Chenyu
Sun Tengyu vs. Hong Seongji

Group H
Lee Yeongkyu vs. Yan Huan
Chen Qirui vs. Fan Yunruo

Group I
Kang Dongyun vs. Lee Hyeonjun
Kim Yeongdo vs. Peng Liyao

Group J
Li Qincheng vs. Weon Seongjin
Xu Jiayang vs. Kim Hyeongwoo

Group K
Seol Hyunjun vs. Zhang Tao
Lee Hyunho vs. Park Yeonghun

Group L
Qin Chiyu vs. Liao Yuanhe
Lee Sedol vs. Wang Zejin

Group M
Gu Zihao vs. Lee Juhyung
Xia Chenkun vs. Lee Jihyun

Group N
Choi Youngchan vs. Kim Kiyoung
Zheng Xu vs. Tao Xinran

-----Seniors-----
Group O
Ryu Shikun vs. Kim Ilhwan
Cho Sonjin vs. Oya Koichi

Group P
Yoo Changhyuk vs. Nakano Hironari
Yu Bin vs. Seo Bongsoo

-----World-----
Group Q
Andrii Kravets (Ukraine) vs. Tanguy Lecalve (France)
Jie Hui Kwa (Singapore) vs. Zhongxia Zhao (USA)

-----Women-----
Group R
Kim Cheayoung vs. Cho Seungah
Oh Jeonga vs. Choi Jeong

Group S
Zhou Hongyu vs. Gao Xing
Fang Ruoxi vs. Fujisawa Rina

Some notables:
* Mi Yuting, Fan Tingyu, and Zhou Ruiyang all lost to their Korean counterparts
* Gu Li and Lee Sedol are both still alive
* All Japanese players in the general groups are eliminated

There was an interesting question of technique in Lee Sedol (white) vs Wang Zejin. First the context: Black had just haned at 1 and instead of defending solidly at 3 (which LZ and other AI preferred by ~1%) Lee played a shoulder hit, Wang got the atari (profit in sente I suppose which is why bots don't like, though telling the difference between a good reverse sente to avoid that and a slow move is hard!) and then answered shoulder, and Lee cut. 8 was the correct shape, 9 a similarly minor (1%) mistake and then black tried to enclose with clamp.

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LZ's instinct was to break out with this sacrifice, but it soon saw that black can resist with 2 at 3 and although the aji is bad black's ok.

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Lee presumably didn't like that either so created some cutting points with a kinda crude push. Rather than blocking black pulled back, -4% says LZ

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I guess Wang didn't like giving up the corner profit with the cut, LZ says the below is quite ok for him as he gets strong in the centre. However, white can improve on this sequence by not exchanging 5 for 6 but cutting directly, and then ignoring the s17 push to reduce around n8, having created the option to take the corner profit with a big gote move later and retaining more aji around the q12 cut to make n8 reduction have more oomph. Also LZ then decides black 4 could be at 5 and allow white to link through again and go back to take the corner profit now that white made the bad 1-2 exchange. A delicate dance of turning each others moves into bad exchanges.

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$$ | . . X O . . . X X X X O X . . X 7 8 . |
$$ | . . . O . . . . . . . X O O O 1 2 . . |
$$ | . . X . . . . . . . . X X . . 5 X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 X O X . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6 . . . |
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Now comes the main point of my post, given black pulled back, how should white exploit all those weaknesses? LZ wants to crudely/bluntly get in all the cuts and forcing moves so that it can capture the cutting stone on the outside nicely with maximum forcing moves:

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By getting the push at 13 (and then 15) here in sente white avoids black getting the atari there compared to if white just played atari at 17 after 11. The downside is by playing all the forcing moves you lose ko threats and also lost a bit in the corner by giving black a stone at s16 (e.g. no peep at a for yose benefit).

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$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 . . . |
$$ | . . . , . . . . . , . . . . 5 4 . . . |
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Lee chose to keep all those forcing moves in reserve, but that allowed black to connect solidly with 4. He then didn't capture with 5 (I guess not liking to give p11 forcing move) although LZ says that's the best local move (-2%) and better than extend (-6%). Wang astutely saw that the extend was not punished by saving the p13 cutting stone with a (because then white jumps to m12 which hurts centre group whilst helping white run away), but jumping in the centre to help his group (though LZ says one point left of 6 is best) and encouraging white to spend another dame move to capture p13 (LZ says better than Lee's resistance of 7).

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$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 2 4 . . |
$$ | . . . . . . . . . . . 6 . . . . . . . |
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So LZ didn't like Lee's direct cut, preferring all the forcing moves. However, Elfv2 starts off thinking they are about the same value but then prefers his move, but with a key strategic difference: rather than immediately saving the cutting stone treat it as a bad aji creating exchange and then tenuki to lower left, combining attack of black's 2 stones there with growing your moyo and reducing black's centre. If black didn't defend at 4 but plays to help the f4 group (not a bad move, j3 and f6 both less than -2%) the idea seems to be white will naturally get some helping stones towards the l5/j8 area and this will help when pulling out the p12 stone. (Note 5 is not on the dot ). Though with more playouts Elf goes off 4 and thinks black should exchange m4-m3 and then f6.

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MiniGo cormorant has a similar idea to Elf: it starts off liking LZ's inside cut/ataris/pushes, but then prefers Lee/Elf's outside cut and wants to play f6 rather than e7 as the tenuki.

Over on Fox FineArt's commentary included the direct cut and then tenuki to f6 like MiniGo as a good line, though intriguingly it thinks white is only 49.6% whilst LZ and MiniGo and Elf all think white's around 60%. Maybe FineArt can work with 6.5 komi now as the game is actually played with in Korea or it's just different eval?

Taking a few steps back to see the bigger picture, I'd love to know what you think it all this means.

My interest stems from the fact that, when I started to write the Go Seigen ten-game match books, which were based on collecting lots of pro commentaries on each game, I tried to make a virtue out of the fact that pros often disagreed with each other (and with Go and his opponents, of course). Mostly they just differed about how to continue, and I imagine this often just reflects stylistic differences. But there were more than a few extreme cases where a pro said a move was very good and another said it was very bad.

All I could do ultimately, though, was point out that these differences existed, and leave the whys and wherefores to meta-go.

My first guess would be to infer that you may face the same dilemma, simply because you do not seem to have drawn any conclusions yet. But I suspect also that you have thought about it far more than me, so you probably have more insight.

If, however, you do conclude that this is all indeed in the realms of meta-go, what do you think about what that tells us about judging human pro ideas versus what we, maybe quite wrongly, insist on seeing as AI ideas? My own starting point about that, based partly on the many years chess pros have had to absorb the info gleaned from their bots, is a vague belief that human ideas are no worse and are quite possibly better. Where the bots really score is that they make fewer tactical mistakes and/or just simply see further ahead tactically.

I may be wrong here, but... Bots seem to lack tunnel vision. I'm sure their search trees do somehow reflect some, on occassion, but I'd say that much less than humans. A computer does not "tenuki", because it's "always" playing the whole board.

Am I completely out?

Thanks; take care.

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一碁一会

Final round matchup for the preliminary:

Group A
Dang Yifei vs. Park Jaekeun

Group B
Guo Xinyi vs. Liao Xingwen

Group C
Park Seunghwa vs. Cao Xiaoyang

Group D
Li Xuanhao vs. Heo Yongho

Group E
Huang Yunsong vs. Gu Li

Group F
Han Yizhou vs. Park Jinsol

Group G
Zhao Chenyu vs. Hong Seongji

Group H
Lee Yeongkyu vs. Fan Yunruo

Group I
Kang Dongyun vs. Peng Liyao

Group J
Li Qincheng vs. Xu Jiayang

Group K
Zhang Tao vs. Lee Hyunho

Group L
Liao Yuanhe vs. Wang Zejin

Group M
Gu Zihao vs. Xia Chenkun

Group N
Kim Kiyoung vs. Tao Xinran

-----Seniors-----
Group O
Ryu Shikun vs. Cho Sonjin

Group P
Yoo Changhyuk vs. Seo Bongsoo

-----World-----
Group Q
Tanguy Lecalve (France) vs. Zhongxia Zhao (USA)

-----Women-----
Group R
Cho Seungah vs. Choi Jeong

Group S
Gao Xing vs. Fang Ruoxi

Group winners:

Group A: Dang Yifei
Group B: Guo Xinyi
Group C: Cao Xiaoyang
Group D: Heo Yongho
Group E: Huang Yunsong
Group F: Han Yizhou
Group G: Zhao Chenyu
Group H: Lee Yeongkyu
Group I: Kang Dongyun
Group J: Li Qincheng
Group K: Zhang Tao
Group L: Liao Yuanhe
Group M: Gu Zihao
Group N: Tao Xinran
Group O: Cho Sonjin
Group P: Seo Bongsoo
Group Q: Tanguy Lecalve
Group R: Choi Jeong
Group S: Gao Xing

Here are the 31 players (one wildcard will be announced later):
China (17): Ke Jie, Tang Weixing, Xie Erhao, Yang Dingxin, Chen Yaoye, Dang Yifei, Guo Xinyi, Cao Xiaoyang, Huang Yunsong, Han Yizhou, Zhao Chenyu, Li Qincheng, Zhang Tao, Liao Yuanhe, Gu Zihao, Tao Xinran, Gao Xing
Korea (10): Park Junghwan, Shin Jinseo, Kim Jiseok, Shin Minjoon, Byun Sangil, Heo Yongho, Lee Yeongkyu, Kang Dongyun, Seo Bongsoo, Choi Jeong
Japan (3): Iyama Yuuta, Hsu Chiayuan, Cho Sonjin
France (1): Tanguy Lecalve

The format will change this year for the first round from double-elimination to single-elimination, so the draw will become even more important.

Nice for Lecalve to inaugurate his new pro statut in such a tournament

Did Andrii Kravets and Tanguy LeCalve win another game to get to this stage? I see Ali Jabarin is gone, so there was probably another round between the July 2nd post and this one.

My July 2nd post had the 8 winners from the first round of the world group, and the adjacent pairs played each other in round 2.

Thank you. You answered my following question as well (who did they play in the 2nd round)

Yu Lijun from Taiwan is selected as Wild Card position in Main Tournament.

Pairing for round of 32,
Zhang Tao vs Kim Jiseok
Tao Xinran vs Cho Sonjin
Ke Jie vs Lee Yeonggu
Xie Erhao vs Zhao Chenyu
Chen Yaoye vs Choi Jeong
Guo Xinyi vs Seo Bongsoo
Liao Yuanhe vs Yu Lijun
Gu Zihao vs Heo Yongho
Huang Yunsong vs Tanguy Lecalve
Cao Xiaoyang vs Shin Minjoon
Li Qincheng vs Hsu Chiayuan
Han Yizhou vs Kang Dongyun
Yang Dingxin vs Byun Sangil
Dang Yifei vs Park Junghwan
Tang Weixing vs Iyama Yuuta
Gao Xing vs Shin Jinseo



Main tournament;
round of 32 - 8/30
round of 16 - 8/31
round of 8 - 9/1
round of 4 - 9/2
Final - 9/4, 9/5, 9/6

When Lee Yeonggu drew his lot, there was a loud reaction from the crowd.


Caption: Why is everyone reacting like this?


Caption: "Ah..." (He realizes he will be playing Ke Jie)

More pictures here:
http://www.cyberoro.com/news/news_view. ... =1&cmt_n=0