Posts Tagged ‘romania’

Shusaku Cup

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

The third edition of the Romanian Shusaku Cup has ended. In-Seong Hwang 7d of Korea won all six rounds. Catalin Taranu 5p or Romania came second as he lost just one game, against In-Seong Hwang, by half a point. Ilja Shikshin 7d of Russia was third, leading the block of players who had two losses (the others were Cristian Pop 7d of Romania, Artem Kachanovskyj 6d of Ukraine, and Ondrej Silt 6d of Czechia.

EuroGoTV did an awesome job broadcasting the videos of the top two tables live as video as well as on KGS (archives here and here).

Here is the game that In-Seong Hwang, playing black, won by half point against Catalin Taranu.

(;FF[4]GM[1]SZ[19]ST[2]CA[UTF-8]AP[SGFC:1.16] GN[Shusaku Cup 2010 board 1 round 4] RO[4] PB[In-Seong Hwang] BR[8d] PW[Catalin Taranu] WR[7d] KM[6.5] DT[2010-03-27] PC[Tirgu Mures, Romania] RE[B+0.5] TM[3600] OT[10/300 Canadian] RU[Japanese] ;B[pd];W[dc];B[pq];W[co];B[ep];W[eo];B[fo];W[en];B[cq];W[fp] ;B[eq];W[fq];B[go];W[hq];B[fr];W[hp];B[gm];W[gr];B[er];W[lq] ;B[el];W[cl];B[dj];W[bp];B[bq];W[fm];B[fl];W[gl];B[hm];W[gk] ;B[dm];W[cn];B[gp];W[gq];B[ho];W[bk];B[bj];W[aq];B[ar];W[ap] ;B[jp];W[jq];B[cr];W[ek];B[fk];W[fj];B[ej];W[dk];B[gj];W[fi] ;B[hk];W[dh];B[ip];W[iq];B[kp];W[mr];B[cg];W[ci];B[cj];W[bi] ;B[ai];W[bh];B[bg];W[ah];B[cm];W[dl];B[hl];W[bm];B[cd];W[cc] ;B[dd];W[ed];B[ee];W[fd];B[fe];W[gd];B[fg];W[gi];B[hi];W[hh] ;B[gh];W[ei];B[hg];W[ih];B[ig];W[ii];B[hj];W[jg];B[jf];W[kg] ;B[ki];W[if];B[hf];W[ie];B[he];W[hd];B[kf];W[lf];B[id];W[je] ;B[ke];W[jd];B[kd];W[jc];B[kc];W[jb];B[jh];W[lh];B[md];W[li] ;B[ji];W[lk];B[pj];W[pg];B[ng];W[nh];B[mg];W[oh];B[nj];W[ni] ;B[qe];W[lg];B[ne];W[jk];B[jj];W[ml];B[mj];W[lj];B[ol];W[lo] ;B[po];W[rg];B[ri];W[jn];B[kn];W[ko];B[jo];W[ln];B[nn];W[oj] ;B[pi];W[ok];B[pk];W[nl];B[rf];W[om];B[pl];W[on];B[oo];W[nm] ;B[pn];W[ma];B[lb];W[la];B[ka];W[kb];B[mb];W[na];B[ob];W[qf] ;B[pf];W[qg];B[og];W[ph];B[or];W[oa];B[pa];W[ja];B[nb];W[ka] ;B[qb];W[bd];B[be];W[bc];B[dg];W[qi];B[qj];W[rh];B[rj];W[re] ;B[rd];W[sf];B[jl];W[kl];B[jm];W[km];B[em];W[sd];B[rc];W[nq] ;B[cp];W[bo];B[kq];W[kr];B[gs];W[hs];B[fs];W[oq];B[pr];W[pm] ;B[qm];W[ql];B[rl];W[qn];B[rm];W[op];B[pp];W[no];B[is];W[jr] ;B[hr];W[ae];B[bf];W[ik];B[ij];W[lp];B[io];W[fn];B[eh];W[di] ;B[sc];W[se];B[js];W[ks];B[ns];W[ms];B[oi];W[nk];B[sh];W[fh] ;B[eg];W[ge];B[gf];W[le];B[ld];W[mh];B[me];W[mf];B[nf];W[nr] ;B[os];W[in];B[il];W[kk];B[dp];W[sg];B[si];W[qh];B[do];W[dn] ;B[ad];W[ac];B[af];W[ad];B[ag];W[aj];B[ch];W[ck];B[hn];W[kn] ;B[im];W[gn];B[kj];W[kh];B[hs];W[ir])

You can find the final results here.

Teaching game with Kato Masao

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

I wrote a new article: Teaching game with Kato Masao. It is based on a 3-stones handicap teaching game I received from Kato Masao 9p back in 1990 when I was 3 dan and I represented Romania at the WAGC.

What motivated me to write the article at this point was the godiscussions.com thread “Asking professionals for serious games” – in particular Tommie’s request there.

I hope you enjoy it!