Kisei title: Yamashita Keigo - Cho Chikun 1-0
Yamashita started his defense of the Kisei title well, by winning the first game (by resignation).
It may look like an upset win since Yamashita made a large dent in Cho’s territory while they seemed to start yose, but by following the Cyberoro pro comments (just the variations, since I cannot read the actual comments) I think Yamashita was ahead anyway and Cho tried to over-stretch in the yose stage by not defending properly against White 118, which led to the more spectacular ending.
Yamashita looks happy during the post-mortem game analysis with the main referee, Kobayashi Koichi, who was himself Kisei in the late 80’s - early 90’s for a record of 8 consecutive years (of which, interestingly, he both captured the title from Cho, then lost the title to Cho as well).
January 14th, 2008 at 2:31 am
The whole game seemed rather weird to me. Especially after they made their moyos everything seemed to get a bit “out of control” and Cho Chikun was being pushed around (even though I thought blacks position after the fuseki was the better one). I wonder what the next game will be like ^^
January 14th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
>> even though I thought blacks position after the fuseki was the better one
Same here, Vincent: I liked Black’s position better. In my case wishful thinking played its role too, since I want to see Cho Sensei win….