Life In 19x19

Just discovered some free audio lectures in the KGS Plus / Recent lectures section. These are audio comments from Michael Redmond and Chris Garlock on some World mind games 2013 games.

The following games are commented :

- Yu Zhiying 4p (CN) - Wang Chengxin 5p (CN)
- Yongfei Ge 6d (US) - Chun-yen Lin 6p (TW)
- Fujita Akihiko 4p (JP) - Chou Chunhsun 9p (TW)
- Fan Tingyu 9p (CN) - Park Jeoungwahn 9p (KR)
- Kazushi Tsuruta 2p (JP) - Chun-yen Lin 6p (TW)
- Wang Chengxin 5p (CN) - Yu Zhiying 4p (CN)

These comments are free and provided by the AGA (thx!) and the only thing to say is that these audios are top notch, so go listen to them now

Got to listen in live for the final of the women's tournament, Yu Zhiying is an amazing player.

Btw there's also video for this tournament with commentary by the same guys (at least one of commented games is not on the KGS Plus list): http://www.youtube.com/user/mindgameschannel/videos They're not in order so you'll need to make use of the cursor if wanting to go in chronological order.

The videos are from 4-5 hrs long so you'll have to do a quick scan through to find the go content. Day 2 and 3 have no go (all I've looked at so far are days 1-4). It's a real treat to be able to see the game with commentary and be able to watch the players at the same time - envy chess players they get this kind platters served up perpetually. Anyway it's awesome when we are provided such and, imo they are a substantial boon for the game, newer players and double digit kyu's generally who by definition wont be able to follow some of the more profound variations will have that something extra to spark/hold interest.