The 2nd BC Cup just concluded in Korea on April 27th, 2010. Lee Sedol 9p defeated Changhao 9p with a perfect 3-0 score. The games were very exciting and extremely difficult, but Lee 9p managed to edge out in every game. It is also notable that Lee Sedol 9p has been on a 24 games [...]
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AGA Online Tournament, May 1, 2010
The top 2 seeds in the AGA Online Tournament, Myungwan Kim 9P and Yongfei Ge 7D, will face off on KGS in Sweet 16 on May 1, 2010. The game is scheduled to start at 1pm EST. I will provide live commentary on KGS for this exciting match.
For details of the tournament, please check http://ngol.us/Home.html.
Weekly review 11/2
On 11/2, the first round of the 14th SamSung Cup International semi-final was played in Shanghai. The two best-of-three matches are QiuJun 8p vs Lee Changho 9p, KongJie 9p vs Gu Li 9p.
In a very slow and close yose style game, QiuJun 8p managed to pull ahead and forced Lee Changho 9p to resign at [...]
10/19 – 10/25 weekly review
This week’s go scene is not as exciting. There was no international tournaments, as Samsung cup’s semi-final won’t resume till early Nov.
One worth noting game is the first match of the Japanese OZA. The title holder Cho U 9p defeated Yamada Kimio 9p with only 106 moves. The interesting thing is that the game ended [...]
This week in review – Samsung Cup and Final match in Meijin
This week's Go scenes was rather exciting. On Oct 13-14, the Samsung Cup held the quarter-finals. Three Chinese players (Gu Li, Qiu Jun, Kong Jie) and one Korean player (Lee ChangHo) advanced to the semi-final. There were some very interesting games between top pros that I will examine later this week.
In Japan, Yuta 7P successfully [...]
LA radio news coverage on Go
Here is a LA public radio station's news coverage about the 2009 Go Congress in DC. Nice exposure of Go to the public. Cheers to the Southern California Go clubs for the good work.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2009/09/07/go-convention/
