Archive for February, 2007

Watching the Kisei title, live – thanks, Cyberoro!

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
As I mentioned on the Kisei 2007 page, I was delighted to find out that I can watch the most important Japanese Go title, live – first by finding some Japanese client software (that’s how I followed the first game), then discovering that Cyberoro broadcasts it live! That is awesome – while it is exhausting to follow a 2-day title game, I like it a lot – I feel just like in the “old days” when I was insei in Japan! Not to mention that they broadcast other games as well – today is Thursday in Japan, which is the day of the week when high-dan games are scheduled at Nihon Ki-in: the veteran Rin Kaiho is playing against the young Iyama Yuta, veteran Takemiya is playing against young Tsuruyama (who was insei at the same time I was), another games pairs 2 veterans: Otake Hideo and Kudo Norio… and I can watch all these games now. Thanks, Cyberoro Go server!