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How to get the kifu from the last WAGC round?

Friday, June 1st, 2007

While WAGC has been over for a couple of days, the organizers still haven’t posted the game records from the last round.

They did post links to the games they recorded at this link: http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/worldama/28/e/kifu.htm but the links don’t work. For instance, I want to see the China-Romania game which is supposed to be at this link, but all I get is an error page.

Also, CyberOro - which is the only Go server I know of that did live broadcasts for a couple of games from each round (kudos to them for this!) has unfortunately chosen to upgrade their servers just before the last 2 WAGC rounds or so, and has only updated their Asian client - while all English users have been left in the dark for now.

Does anybody know how to find the kifu from the last WAGC round? Or how to communicate with the WAGC organizers to ask them to fix the broken links at the above mentioned web address?

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Kisei - game 3 starts today

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

The third game of the top Japanese pro title, Kisei, starts today.

It “starts” today because it’s a 2 day game, so most of the excitement usually happens in the second day. I’ll watch it on Cyberoro and update my Kisei 2007 page as the game develops.

I intended to write my thoughts on the 2nd game as I watched it live on Cyberoro, but that good intention was “ruined” by the fact that Cyberoro published live variations to each move, which I believe to be the comments of the professional(s) following the game, and I just impatiently opened each one as it became available, so I only added my thoughts on those - which was definitely entertaining, but not the best learning experience for me.

So what I plan for this third game is to try to think, at each and every move, what I would play, and write down my thoughts, and only later look at the variations on Cyberoro.

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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!

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