In a repeat of her last year’s performance, Lee Minjin 5p of Korea eliminated the last players of Japan (Kato Keiko) and China (Rui Naiwei) and won Jeongganjang Cup for her country.
Here is the final game, against Rui Naiwei (link to game record).
The match generated a lot of excitement also among other professional players following the game:
Lee Minjin of Korea (right in the photo below) eliminated Tang Yi of China from the 6th Jeongganjang Cup on April 1st. (Link to the game)
Here is the after game discussion with Rui Naiwei.
Then she eliminated Kato Keiko of Japan as well on April 2nd. (Link to the game)
Japan is eliminated from the competition.
China is down to the last player, Rui Naiwei. Korea has, besides Lee Minjin, Park Jieun as well.
Rui Naiwei is in an interesting position because during the past many years she has been playing in Korea. In particular, Lee Minjin eliminated Rui Naiwei from the Women Kuksu (but lost the final to Park Jieun 1-2) less than 2 weeks ago, so in today’s game Rui must be particularly motivated against Lee.
Rui Naiwei and Cho Hye Yeon at the Female Myeongin prizegiving ceremony:
I already wrote an entry about the final.
Also, a reminder that Cho Hye Yeon has a very nice English blog. She is actually the only professional player who keeps an updated blog in English - thank you for that, Hye Yeon!
To point to just a few of her recent entries: there is an entry about the mirror-Go strategy, one about what is to be insei in Korea, and one about a decline in Go / Baduk popularity in Korea.
Jujo is watching the game analysis of the second and final game in Female Myeongin: his wife, Rui Naiwei, won by 0.5 points against the challenger Cho Hyeyeon and kept her title.
Game record here.
Park Jieun (8d) defeated Rui Naiwei (9d) in the 1st Yuanyang Cup (the link on the Go Topics page also contains links to the games).
Rui won the first game by half a point, then Park won the next two by resignation.
Here is a photo of Park commenting the final game.
In the first Go News of 2008, Rui Naiwei defeated Cho Hyeyeon in the first game of the 9th Female Myeongin (Korean equivalent of the Japanese Meijin). The link to the game record is here.
Rui Naiwei is already famous worldwide that she doesn’t need any more introduction. About Cho Hyeyeon (with the alternative spelling: “Hye Yeon”, as she writes on her own English blog) I wrote briefly in another blog entry.
You can find more games of both players at 361points.com by looking them up in the players page (partial names work too).
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