22th World Fujitsu (1)

The 22th World Fujitsu Championship will be taking place later this week in Tokyo. Here is the link to the players’ profiles.
http://jad.fujitsu.com/event/2009/igo/profile.html


I will be attending the opening ceremony and pair drawing event on Friday afternoon (local time). Fingers crossed…

2002 Zhujiu Jiang - Jie Li Test

4th World OZA Part 1, pairing

32 players from 5 continents.

Group Photo

Group Photo

4th World OZA in Tokyo

I am in Tokyo now for the 4th World OZA championship. Tomorrow (22th in Japan) will be the pair drawing event and I will try to report it as soon as I can. :)

Here is the link to the official website: 4th world oza

32th Meijin Final, round 1 (Cho U vs. Takao Shinji) part 1

This game is the first round of the 32th Meijin Tournament final between Cho U 9p (white) and Takao Shinji 9p (black). I chose this game because I think it is a very interesting moyo game between 2 top Japanese players.

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Black 15 is an interest choice. Black felt that neither A or B was good enough. A has the weakness of the J3 invasion, and B is probably too low for the thickness.

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21th World Fujitsu Semi-Final, Lee Chang Ho - Liu Xing (Graph 14-18)

Continued from previous post…

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Because the Ko is very big for both side, black chose to finish the Ko when white started with the smallest Ko-threat at 152. Black gained from this exchange but white still keeps sente and a small lead.

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21th World Fujitsu Semi-Final, Lee Chang Ho - Liu Xing (Graph 8-13)

Continued from previous post…

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Black decided that it is risky to attack White’s invading stone directly. Instead, he chose to capture white’s Q18 and took a huge profit in the corner. It’s likely still an even exchange because black can still possibly gain more from attacking this white group.

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Site migration completed

Hi All,

The site migration is completed. I fixed most if not all of the links. If you encounter broken links on any post please leave a comment in the corresponding post and I will fix it.

The new platform has superior functions and allows me to upload multiple images at the same time. I will try to use it to do more “live” coverage on tournaments. Please check back soon for new updates. :-)

Moving

Hi All,

I am currently moving the site over to a new platform so I can upload game images more easily. There are some broken links to the game commentary waiting to be fixed. Please be patient. :)

21th World Fujitsu Semi-Final, Lee Chang Ho - Liu Xing (Graph 1-7)

This is one of the semi-final games of the 21th World Fujitsu in Tokyo. Although his performance is not as impressive as a few years ago, Lee 9p is still arguably one of the strongest pros in the world. Liu Xing 7p from China also performed well in Chinese domestic tournaments this year. Hard to predict the outcome of this game.

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Liu Xing 7p often plays very unusual moves. In this game, he chose to play at 5 instead of L3 for the miniature Chinese opening. White 6 is very solid, and black 7 is speedy.

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