2019 World Go Summit Invitational

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2019 World Go Summit Invitational

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This is bi-annual and used to only involve two players, one each from China and Korea. They decided to expand this year and invited 8 players from China, Korea, and Japan.

China: Mi Yuting, Jiang Weijie, Tuo Jiaxi, Shi Yue
Korea: Park Junghwan, Park Yeonghun
Japan: Iyama Yuta, Shibano Toramaru

The games will be played on 8/14 and 8/15.
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Quarterfinal
Park Junghwan beat Mi Yuting
Jiang Weijie beat Shibano Toramaru
Shi Yue beat Iyama Yuta
Tuo Jiaxi beat Park Yeonghun

Semifinal
Tuo Jiaxi beat Park Junghwan
Jiang Weijie beat Shi Yue
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Tuo Jiaxi ended up winning the event.
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Tuo is pretty lucky as he was behind most of the game vs Park but in the small endgame Park made a mistake (not connecting the 2 stones in the centre) and the lead swapped.
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Uberdude wrote:Tuo is pretty lucky as he was behind most of the game vs Park but in the small endgame Park made a mistake (not connecting the 2 stones in the centre) and the lead swapped.
Yeah, Tuo was way behind in the first game too (believe the win rate for Park Yeonghun was at 90%+ at one point).
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