Posts Tagged ‘fan yujing’

Guess Who Won (5)

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Lee Hajin of Korea (left photo) vs. Fan Yujing of China (right photo) in 2008 Jeongganjang Cup.

Lee Hanjin vs. Fan Yujing

Answer: Lee Hajin won by resignation.

Lee Hajin

There a are a lot of interesting moves even if we only look at the beginning of the game:
  • Black 15 which is a new(ish) reply to White’s invasion at 12 (well, it stopped being new several years ago, but it’s “new” with respect to the English Go books)
  • The technique of playing kosumi-tsuke with 25, then directly attacking with 27 instead of defending on the right side – which of course makes a lot of sense in this case since Black is already very strong on the right side
  • The order in which 13 and 15 are played is puzzling to me: not sure what other choice does White have for 14 (maybe playing at 20? or jumping to the left of 17?), and how would that affect Black’s choice of 15.

Lee vs. Fan

(Link to game here).

Guess Who Won (4)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Aoki Kikuyo of Japan (left in the photo) vs. Fan Yujing of China (right) in 2008 Jeongganjang Cup.

Aoki vs. Fan

Answer: Fan Yujing won by 6.5 points.

Fan Yujing

Here is the beginning of the game (Fan plays Black):

Aoki vs. Fan

And here is an interesting exchange that took place at move 78: White (Aoki) decided to sacrifice the stones on the middle of the right hand side, but they retain potential (and came back to life later in the game).

Aoki vs. Fan

(Link to game here).