Uberdude, thanks for pointing out this interesting introduction of the Tian Yuan Tower by Chris Garlock! But I have to correct one thing though, that restaurant on top is a Go bowl, not a Go stone
The B-League is playing the final round today. Team Japan is matched up with 21 Culture - Shanghai Foreign Language Univ. Team Zhejiang already advanced to AL, but there is still another spot that is up for grabs. Unfortunately there are already two teams with 10 points so team Japan is already eliminated with 7 points. I will report the final standing later.
There are two other events that are going on right now. One is round 8 of A-League. Ichiriki Ryo is playing for Team Chongqing for the first time, giving Gu Li a rest. His opponent is world champion Jiang Weijie 9p from Team Shandong. The game started out with Jiang 9p (playing black) developed big mojo on lower and right side, then Ichiriki reduced from outside, giving black solid territory but built up white's own mojo on the left side. Then Jiang split the left side white influence and white is attacking that group. Hard for me to tell which side is ahead, but black has more cash and is probably easier to manage.
Another very interesting event is a human - AI pair go competition. There are 3 human players paired with 3 AIs. The pairing goes like this: Ma Xiaochun 9p paired with Tsinghua University's ShenSuanZi (literally means Divine Calculator), Lee Changho 9p paired with Korean AI DolBaram, and Hei Jiajia (Joanne Missingham) paired with Taiwan's National Chiao Tung Univ.'s CGI. The three pairings will play each other so there will be 3 games, and all 3 will be played today. First game is between Hei Jiajia/CGI and Lee Changho/DolBaram.
I just saw on Fox Go Server that Hei Jiajia/CGI won the game by 3.5 points.
Thanks a lot for the updates, wolfking! I don't think they're available anywhere else in English, so this is great.
Earlier in the thread, someone asked whether these games were in goratings. As of now, I believe only games with a game record are available, but macelee posted that he was going to begin including games with a known result, but no record, and push them out to goratings. I don't believe that has happened, however viewtopic.php?f=10&t=9692&p=195679&hili ... gs#p195679.
The B-League has finished the last round play in a rather dramatic fashion. Before the last round even started, Zhejiang Kunlun had 12 points and already advanced to AL on tie breakers if not on points alone. The remaining AL spot will fall on Quzhou Lanke (10 pts), Llasa Go Institute (10 pts), or Jiangxi Xinjing Titanium Industry (9 points). Quzhou's opponent is Hebei Xin'ao which has only 7 points with no chance of advancing. But Hebei tried their best to play the spoiler role and got a tie, giving Quzhou 11 points. Llasa is playing Jiangxi so every game counts and it turned out every half point counts, literally! Lee Jihyun 4p of Jiangxi won first at position 2, but then Zhang Qiang 4p of Llasa also won at position 3. After that it's Jiangxi's team captain Guo Yuzheng 5p squeazed out a half point win against Llasa's Na Hyun 6p. Now who advances hinges on the final game at position 4 between Llasa's Pan Fei 5p and Jiangxi's Zhu Yuanhao 3p. Pan 5p had a chance to turn the game into a three ko jigo but missed it, and Zhu Yuanhao won by another half point! That game started at 12:30pm and did not finish until after 7pm.
So Jiangxi beat Llasa 3:1 and thus had 11 points, same as Quzhou, while Llasa ended up with 10 points and was eliminated. Unfortunate for Jiangxi they had same round score and game score as Quzhou, but had 4 less opponent round score. So the local team Quzhou became the second team to advance to AL.
Final standing of B-League (numbers in parenthesis are round score, game score, opponent round score)
3. Jiangxi Xinjing Titanium Industry (11, 38, 70)
4. Llasa Go Institute (10, 38, 74)
5. 21 Culture - Shanghai Foreign Language Univ. (9, 34, 71)
6. Xiamen Wenguang Financial (9, 32, 77)
7. Shenzhen Hande (9, 32, 63)
8. Hebei Xin'ao (8, 38, 61)
9. Hulu Island (8, 34, 58)
10. Yunnan (8, 34, 52)
11. China-Japan Friendship (8, 30, 63)
12. China Mobile Shanghai (6, 24, 62)
13. China Pingmei (5, 26, 62)
The three teams below are demoted to C-League in 2018
14. Hangzhou Go School (5, 24, 58)
15. Chongqing Go Institute (4, 22, 53)
16. Beijing Qinglan (4, 20, 53)
Team Japan tied 21 Culture - Shanghai Foreign Language Univ in the final round
1. Ida Atshushi 0:1 Zhang Wei 6p
2. Yu Zhengqi 1:0 Kim Dongho 5p
3. Hsu Chiayuan 0:1 Wang Yanhao 4p
4. Shibano Toramaru 1:0 Yan Zaiming 3p
I think Japan has improved and would have a chance to get to AL if Ichiriki Ryo played.
shoulder hit on black's 4-4 stone is a interesting move
