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China Wins Jeongganjang Cup
The heroes of this year’s Jeongganjang Cup are two very young shodan players from China: Song Ronghui and Li He.
Song Ronghui 1p eliminated Lee Daehyeoi 3p of Korea, Kato Keiko 6p of Japan, Lee Hajin 3p of Korea, Mannami Kana 4p of Japan, Kim Hyeoimin 5p of Korea and Aoki Kikuyo 8p of Japan – an AMAZING winning streak!
You can see Song Ronghui in the following photo.
Then Li He eliminated Park Jieun 9p of Korea, Umezawa Yukari 5p of Japan and Lee Minjin 5p of Korea.
Li He defeated Lee Minjin 5p of Korea in the final game. As Japan has already been eliminated earlier, and Lee Minjin was the last standing player from the Korean team, Li He won the victory for China with this win. China had 3 more players who didn’t have to play even one move in this tournament!
Here is the Li He – Lee Minjin game record.
Wow. It seemed to me that Li He had the initiative for most of that last game, she’s amazing.
Young players are very aggressive…
Nice game, but still I wonder how bold (or crazy ; ) ) you need to be to let the p17 stone alone in the fuseki. Isn’t it asking for trouble? Please help me, i may be too weak to understand this alone…
I think you mean black’s F17 stone (black’s 5th move), right?
If so, yes, it looks strange to be left alone, but black treated it as a sacrifice stone.
At move 45 black can decide to rescue it, but then he cannot build a moyo on the right side anymore, since rescuing a weak stone results in a weak group, which white will take advantage of (attack while erasing black’s influence).
Basically, black decided that he’s lose more than gain by rescue that weak stone.