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Lee Changho lost the Guksu title

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Lee Changho lost the Korean Guksu title to challenger and newcomer Yun Junsang (19 years old, 4 dan).

Lenius corrected me: Yun Junsang is not a newcomer to the top professional Go: in 2002 when he was only 1p (and 14-15 years old!) he only lost 2-1 to Cho Hunhyun in a playoff to decide the challenger to Kiseong title (equivalent to the Japanese Kisei).

I wrote my thoughts on the 4th and last game.

It was interesting how kosumi-tsuke appeared in the opening, how White sacrificed a group, and how Black played 3 moves in a row on the second line, in the middle game.

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Playing Baduk in a Park in Korea

Monday, March 5th, 2007

I found today a blog entry of someone from Busan, South Korea, about people playing Baduk (the Korean for “Go”) in a park.

See one of the pictures below; click on it and you’ll see more, on flickr.com:

It reminds me of parks in Bucharest, Romania where I grew up, except that people there play chess and backgammon, not Go :-)

Now that I think of it, I don’t remember ever seeing people playing Go in parks in Japan…

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Becoming a Professional Player in Korea

Monday, February 12th, 2007

I just found this nice article: Becoming a Professional Player in Korea

The title is self-explanatory. I was impressed with the number of Korean insei at any given time: 168! That is more than 3 times the number of insei in Japan, at least at the time when I was insei.

By the way, the article is part of a nice series of Korean lessons.

In the “Proverbs Part (2)” one, I found a quite funny comment in the “If You Have Lost All Four Corners, Resign” section:

“However, after many brilliant professionals in Korea discovered the value of the sides and the center, the modern version of this proverb goes like this: “If you have secured the four corners, resign.”

The funny thing is that I have known the updated proverb from Japanese sources for a very long time now, so the brilliant professionals in Japan must have discovered that before the brilliant professionals in Korea :-)

Posted in center, funny, insei, japan, korea, pro, proverbs | 1 Comment »

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