Life In 19x19

The combined preliminary started.
16 out of 308 players will advance to main tournament.

3/31 - round 1
4/1 - round 2 - 1
4/2 - round 2 - 2
4/3 - round 3
4/4 - round 4
4/5 - preliminary final

Lot of pictures of players,
http://www.tygem.com/news/news/viewpage ... &findword=

Interesting results (to me anyways) from round 1:

Kang Guhong (amateur) > Rui Naiwei 9p
Yu Zhiying 5p > Tong Mengcheng 5p (both power-players on Tygem; trace(P) vs. tmch)
Yun Sungsik (amateur) > Suh Ninguk 9p (joonki on Tygem)

Seeded players;
Korea:Kang Dongyoon(winner), Park Younghoon(runner up), Park Junghwan, Lee Sedol, Kim Jiseok, Shin Jinseo, and Lee Donghoon
China:Ke Jie, Gu Li, Chen Yaoye, Mi Yuting
Japan:Hane Naoki, Murakawa Daisuke, Ichiriki Ryo, and Tsuya(??????)
Taiwan:Lin Junyan

trout wrote:Japan:Hane Naoki, Murakawa Daisuke, Ichiriki Ryo, and Tsuya(??????)

If I had to make a guess, Shida Tatsuya.

I've been keeping track of the results on my own since igokisen's site hasn't been updating as fast as I'd like, which you may find here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3197383/lg.html

Solomon wrote:I've been keeping track of the results on my own since igokisen's site hasn't been updating as fast as I'd like, which you may find here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3197383/lg.html

Thanks for posting the results!

I think a few Chinese players' name might be misspelled, probably because they are spelled that way on Korean website?

He Jin(3d) --> He Xin(3d) (何鑫)
Yan Zheming(3d) --> Yan Zaiming(3d) (严在明)
Dong Mengcheng(4d) --> Tong Mengcheng(4d) (童梦成)
Xu Yijin(1d) --> Xu Zexin(1d) (徐泽鑫)
Xia Jiankun(4d) --> Xia Chenkun(4d) (夏晨琨)
Wang Yixin(4d) --> Wang Zejin(4d) (王泽锦)
Hu Renmin(4d) --> Hu Ranmin(4d) (胡然闵)
Chun Guangya(6d) --> Wu Guangya(6d) (邬光亚)

I just took the romanization from igokisen (and everything else really), I'll update the names later.

Okay, updated, thanks wolfking.

That's what I thought. I have seen Wu Guangya spelled as Chun Guangya quite a few times. Was "Chun" Korean romanization of Wu(乌)?

wolfking wrote:That's what I thought. I have seen Wu Guangya spelled as Chun Guangya quite a few times. Was "Chun" Korean romanization of Wu(乌)?

No, Wu Guangya in Korean is 우광야, which would be romanized as Wu Guangya. It might be a Japanese thing, since igokisen is a Japanese site.

wolfking wrote:That's what I thought. I have seen Wu Guangya spelled as Chun Guangya quite a few times. Was "Chun" Korean romanization of Wu(乌)?

I think in Korean, they would write '乌' as '烏', and pronounce it as 'oh' (오).

Also, looks like we already talked about this here on L19:
viewtopic.php?p=152042#p152042

Aha! Someone in comments on a Japanese site suggested this theory, which seems plausible.

Random Internet Person wrote:邬はもちろんwuで、
鶉がchunだから、鶉と勘違いしたのでしょう

With "邬", of course being "wu", "鶉" is "chun", so it looks like just a mix up with "鶉".

So perhaps somebody mixed up the Chinese character for his name, thought it was "鶉", which is pronounced as "Chun" in Japanese. At least if we want to trust some random person on the Internet.

main tournament
5/30 - round of 32
6/1 - round of 16

Seeded players;
Korea:Kang Dongyoon(winner), Park Younghoon(runner up), Park Junghwan, Lee Sedol, Kim Jiseok, Shin Jinseo, and Lee Donghoon
China:Ke Jie, Gu Li, Chen Yaoye, Mi Yuting
Japan:Hane Naoki, Murakawa Daisuke, Ichiriki Ryo, and Xu Yao Guo(蘇耀國)
Taiwan:Lin Junyan

Kirby wrote:So perhaps somebody mixed up the Chinese character for his name, thought it was "鶉", which is pronounced as "Chun" in Japanese. At least if we want to trust some random person on the Internet.

That is indeed plausible! As a matter of fact 鹑 is the second character in the Chinese word 鹌鹑 meaning quail, and is also pronounced as "Chun". It's just that in Chinese 邬 is a relatively common family name while nobody uses 鹑 for names, so it is unlikely to mix them up.