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China Wins Jeongganjang Cup
Monday, March 9th, 2009
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.
Lee Minjin Wins Jeongganjang Cup for Korea
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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).
Lee Minjin defeats Tang Yi and Kato Keiko in Jeongganjang Cup
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
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)
Guess Who Won (8)
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Yashiro Kumiko of Japan (left in the photo) against Tang Yi of China.
Tang won by resignation after a surprise killing of a group of Yashiro’s.
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Guess Who Won (7)
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Tang Yi (left) was paired next against Lee Hanjin from Korea in Jeongganjang Cup.
- the variation in the lower left: White prefers to build a thick position in gote with 14 and 16 nowadays instead of taking sente with 14 to the left of 9 and leaving bad aji behind.
- how patient Black is with 33 (in most pro games I’ve seen Black attacks at 34 instead)
- how Black plays 43 to “threaten to build a big go threat”: it’s not in itself a ko threat since the ko on the lower side hasn’t started yet, but if White responds to 43 in the upper left corner, Black can start the ko next and then she’ll have a clear ko-threat in the upper left.
Guess Who Won (6)
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Lee Hajin of Korea (left photo) vs. Manami Kana of Japan (right photo) in 2008 Jeongganjang Cup.
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.
- 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.
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.
Guess Who Won (3)
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008It’s time again for the “Guess Who Won” series. Today’s photo quiz is about the 6th Jeongganjang Cup game between Aoki Kikuyo 8p (Japan) and Kim Sesil 2p (Korea):
Answer: Aoki won by 2.5p.
Aoki (Black) used o-moyo (big moyo) strategy – see the diagram below for the first 49 moves (complete game record here).
Guess Who Won (2)
Friday, January 11th, 2008
In the Jan, 11th round of the 6th Jeongganjang Cup, Aoki Kikuyo 8-dan of Japan met Song Ronghui 1-dan of China.
