Life In 19x19

Awesome. I feel somewhat evil with this much of a lead.

I'm not sure it'll last, but I'm looking forward to seeing if it does.

A question about the game:

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This sequence in the lower right in game 3 seems much better for black (Won Sungjin) to me. Is it? The corner looks huge.

The next moves here were black moving the N6 stone with move 35, even.

See GoGameGuru for the complete game.

Park Yeonghun won against Baek Hongsuk in the Myeongin finals and so defended his title 3-1 (impressive, given he had to go through the whole knock-out)

Uchida Shuhei lost his first game in the Meijin league to Mizokami Tomochika

still waiting for today's results of Takao-Seto and Kono-Yuki matches from the Honinbo league. (Asahi beats Mainichi)

Honinbo league, 3rd round:
Seto Taiki - Takao Shinji (W+R)
Iyama Yuta (B+R) - Ko Iso
Yuki Satoshi - Kono Rin (W+1.5)

Here's the sgf for the Last Myeongin match:



There's a very interesting ko battle, I'm going to have to study this game more later.

points earned by pro:

player standings:


Still waiting for the Hane Naoki-Cho U match in the Honinbo League, and the Hane Naoki - Iyama Yuta match in the Meijin League.

Takao Shinji is looking really good: won the challenger match for Kisei, and leading in the Honinbo League at 3-0. Lost to Cho U in the Meijin league though.

Honinbo league:
Cho U beat Hane Naoki by resign

next week:
Meijin league:
Iyama Yuta - Hane Naoki

Tengen-sen: (does it also count?)
Anzai Nobuaki - Cho Chikun
Kobayashi Koichi - Sakai Hideyuki
Yamada Kimio - Kurahashi Masayuki

Can I still join the fantasy league? If so, are the prices for pros still the same from the first post? And what events would still apply to me?

Meijin league:
Iyama Yuta beat Hane Naoki

Tengen main tournament:
Anzain Nobuaki beat Cho Chikun
Sakai Hideyuki beat Kobayashi Koichi
Yamada Kimio beat Kurahashi Masayuki

Judan main tournament:
Ko Iso beat Ogata Masaki
Cho U beat Kono Rin

either with Cho U or Ko Iso, i think Judan finals are going to be interesting. looking forward to March

emeraldemon: i fell out of touch and forgot which Japanese tournaments are included into our league and i am still not sure after checking the first post, could you please refresh my memory?

Good news for Ko Iso. Until Iyama Yuta came around, he was the youngest player to enter the Kisei, Meijin or Honinbo leagues.

@Menezes, shapenaji: I've decided the way to go forward is to recalculate the points at the end of February and we'll redo enrollment then.

@Laman: I'm counting Oza, Tengen, and Judan, but only Round of 8 or higher. I'll update the first post with some more clear instructions.

points earned by pro:

player standings:

1 point goes to each player who was seeded into the round of 16 of the GS Caltex Cup: http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/kr/gs.html

points earned by pro:

player standings:


Meijin and Honinbo league results should be rolling in soonish, as well as BC Card Cup preliminaries.

Kisei finals:
Takao Shinji beats Cho U and gets 1-0 lead. next round in two weeks

Meijin league:
Hane Naoki beats Uchida Shuhei
Mizokami Tomochika beats Kim Sujun

Honinbo league:
Iyama Yuuta beats Yuki Satoshi
Kono Rin beats Ko Iso

too bad, i always cheer for newcomers and underdogs (ie. Uchida and Ko) and it just so happens that they usually lose

I don't know if Kono Rin can be called an underdog, but he fought in through the preliminary bracket and is now 3-1, tied with Iyama Yuta.

Also, your dog should hang out with ez4u's dog

emeraldemon wrote:I don't know if Kono Rin can be called an underdog, but he fought in through the preliminary bracket and is now 3-1, tied with Iyama Yuta.

Also, your dog should hang out with ez4u's dog

yeah, it is nice to see Kono rising again

and you are right about the dog. they look similar and yet so different

Honinbo league:
Hane Naoki beats Takao Shinji

on Thursday:

Honinbo league: Cho U - Seto Taiki
Meijin league:
Iyama - Kono
Takao - Yuki

points earned by pro:

player standings:

GS Caltex Cup (ro 32):
Kim Hyeongwoo beats Heo Yeongho
Joo Hyeongwuk beats Han Sanghoon
(romanizations copied from igokisen)

Meijin league:
Kono Rin beats Iyama Yuuta
Takao Shinji beats Yuki Satoshi

Honinbo league:
Cho U beats Seto Taiki