Life In 19x19

illluck wrote: Black (Wang) played an interesting tenuki from a 3-4 high approach, contact from below joseki. The variation is not in Kogo's (well, rather, the first move of that variation was listed as "not recommended", but obviously Kogo's is a fairly non-authoritive source :p). The result looks quite interesting - if I played 3-4 I'd be interested in trying it out.

There was an empty corner, which is a good enough reason to tenuki many things. If black finished the joseki white would probably play in the empty corner rather than finish the joseki. In fact one idea is to peep the hanging connection, if white connects then black kosumis and if white takes the empty corner the peep has made white heavier so black has a better attack.

I wonder white white didn't atari at s4, if black connects it's a good exchange. Black has no threats to fight ko. Maybe she attaches to the other 4-4 and crosscuts or something to generate large threats first, but that entails quite a local loss, and white can back down from the ko without losing too much, probably less than black does by playing silly moves to generate big threats.

Wang Chenxing defeated Mannami Nao by resign.

Team Member;

China; Rui Naiwei, Li He, Tang Yi, Wang Chenxing, Yu Zhiying

Korea;Park Jieun, Kim Hyemin, Lee Sula, Park Jiyeon, Choi Jung

Japan;Yoshida Mika, Yashiro Kumiko, Xie Yimin, Mannami Nao, Mukai Chiaki

Bold case denotes remaining players.

Wang has won 7 consecutive games.

Wang Chenxing defeated Park Jieun by 2.5.

Team Member;

China; Rui Naiwei, Li He, Tang Yi, Wang Chenxing, Yu Zhiying

Korea;Park Jieun, Kim Hyemin, Lee Sula, Park Jiyeon, Choi Jung

Japan;Yoshida Mika, Yashiro Kumiko, Xie Yimin, Mannami Nao, Mukai Chiaki

Bold case denotes remaining players.

Wang has won 8 consecutive games.

trout wrote:Wang has won 7 consecutive games.

Wang was promoted to 5-dan after her 7th(?) win.

Xie Yimin defeated Wang Chenxing by resignation.

illluck wrote:Xie Yimin defeated Wang Chenxing by resignation.

This makes the sponsor (and Japan) happy.

Yu Zhiying defeated Xie Yimin by resign.

Huanglongshi Cup goes to China.

Congratulations to China, although I suppose the winner's been fairly obvious for some time now. I'm not sure why Xie Yimin just ignored the ko threat against her right-center group.

lindentree wrote:Congratulations to China, although I suppose the winner's been fairly obvious for some time now. I'm not sure why Xie Yimin just ignored the ko threat against her right-center group.

It looks to me like she felt she couldn't catch up and was looking for a place to resign.

Jing's report on the 2nd Huang Longshi Cup has more game records and photos.