24th LG cup

[xiayun]

Pairing for round of 8;

Park Junghwan vs Peng Liao
Shin Jinseo vs Xu Jiayang
Kim Jieseok vs Tao Xinran
Ke Jie vs Chen Yaoye

Round of 8: 10/28/19
Round of 4: 10/30/19

Small correction—Peng Liyao and Kim Jiseok are mispelled.
Also, is the draw random or does the sponsor reseed after every round? This is great draw for Korea.

The draw is random each round, with one rule to avoid having players from the same country play each other as much as possible.

[Mapleleaf]

I think Mi Yuting missed a chance in the massive semeai in the end - if move 226 doesnt tenuki but keep filling in the liberties for the black's group, it looks it is at least a triple ko, so it may lead to a re-game; Mi Yuting may not have time to valuate if black killed the lower white huge group and gave up the triple ko black group... but if white was going to play 226, white should capture the black K3 stones at K2 in move 204, then the above large two groups should still be seki and white was leading in territories (comparing to the game); in the game, although white was able to walk through black's territory but Shin ended up recapturing that tail... you can tell the differences.

[xiayun]

Quarterfinals will be held in a few days (10/28).

[trout]

round of 8;

Park Junghwan defeated Peng Liao by resign.
Ke Jie defeated Chen Yaoye by 5.5.
Tao Xinran defeated Kim Jieseok by 0.5.
Shin Jinseo defeated Xu Jiayang by resign.

Round of 4: 10/30/19

Pairing for semi-final;
Park Junghwan vs Tao Xinran
Shin Jinseo vs Ke Jie

[xiayun]

Don't know when was the last time the semifinal had the top 3 players in the world.

[Uberdude]

Blackie 9p did a review of the Ke Jie game. https://m.twitch.tv/videos/500798023 .

Also I think I found a double ladder breaker in one variation.

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[trout]

Round of 4:

Shin Jinseo defeated Ke Jie by resign.
Park Junghwan defeated Tao Xinran by 3.5.

Final(Date???);
Shin Jinseo vs Park Junghwan

[Uberdude]

Nice to see Shin progress and have another chance at his first international title, but Park is such s tough opponent for him. Park leads 11-4 in head to head including winning their last 9 games in a row since 2018.

[xiayun]

Shin's record against Ke Jie wasn't great either, so this might just be the tournament he finally breaks through.

Tough loss for Tao. He was significantly ahead for the majority of the game.

[trout]

1st game of the Final is being played now.

Shin Jinseo(w) vs Park Junghwan(b)

[Uberdude]

Wow. Shin (white) finally managed to beat Park, and on a big stage too. He started really well with aggressive fighting and some sharp reading, but Park made a comeback and they had a huge ko which Shin managed to win. Park's compensation was sufficient to keep his lead but as a follow up from the ko Shin got to attack some scraggly walls and rather than sacrificing a bit Park tried to save all and ended up getting killed with some sneaky shortage of liberties tesuji after he played some bizarre move I don't understand in another corner giving Shin a ko and 2 moves in a row.

[Bill Spight]

Thanks.

But what's with all these ghost moves?

[mhlepore]

I'm terrible at formatting sgfs here, but hopefully this version is clean.

[xela]

I'm terrible at formatting sgfs here, but hopefully this version is clean.

Works for me, thanks.

[Bill Spight]

I'm terrible at formatting sgfs here, but hopefully this version is clean.

Works for me, thanks.

Me, too. Many thanks.