Ishi Press Archives is reprinting five long out-of-print Ishi Press go books. The reprints include Breakthrough to Shodan by Naoki Miyamoto 9-dan, Enclosure Josekis by Masaki Takemiya 9-dan, Kato’s Attack and Kill by Masao Kato 9-dan, The Power of the Star-Point, The Sanren-Sei Opening by Shukaku Takagawa 9-dan and All About Thickness, Understanding Moyo and Influence, by Yoshio Ishida 9-dan.
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“Minnesota, home of the 2015 US Go Congress, celebrated its’ annual fishing opener over the weekend,” reports Congress Director Josh Larson. A guided fishing tour is among the traditional day-off options for this year’s Go Congress. Discounted Go Congress registrations will expire June 1st. Click here to register and pay now to take advantage of early bird rates “and while you’re there, vote for your favorite day-off activities,” Larson urges.
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“Reading is the process of imagining tactical sequences of well-chosen moves,” says Robert Jasiek. “Besides strategy, reading determines a player’s skill.” “Tactical Reading,” Jasiek’s latest book – his 11th– uses the holistic approach of general theory applicable to all tactical problems. “Powerful principles develop every essential aspect of the theory of tactical reading,” Jasiek says. “Various kinds of simplifications and techniques reduce a large and unmanageable set of choices to the smallest possible number of necessary variations.” The book explains in detail a general method which Jasiek says will lead to “correct and efficient reading.” Application of the theory to 100 problems and their exhaustive answers demonstrates “the best way to distinguish inferior from the interesting moves.” Click here to order from Jasiek or go to Goshop Keima.
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This is game 2 of the 29th Tianyuan (Chinese Tengen) title match.
The game was played between Mi Yuting 9p and Chen Yaoye 9p on April 26, 2015, in Wujiang, China.
Chen Yaoye won the first game on April 24.
Mi Yuting 9 dan (left) and Chen Yaoye 9 dan at the 29th Tianyuan final.
Chen Yaoye is currently ranked #6 in China.
Chen Yaoye 9 dan thinking: 29th Tianyuan final.
He’s held the Tianyuan title for six years in a row now, equaling Gu Li 9p’s record.
Gu held the Tianyuan title from 2003 to 2008, and Chen’s held it since 2009.
Chen defeated Gu Li (twice), Zhou Hexi 4p (twice), Gu Lingyi 5p, and Ke Jie 9p in the previous Tianyuan finals.
If Chen defends the title again, he’ll set a new record of seven consecutive years as Tianyuan.
Chen was also very strong in the China Korea Tengen matches, and he won the match four times (in 2009 and 2011-2013). He defeated Kang Dongyun 9p, Choi Cheolhan 9p (twice) and Park Younghun 9p.
Chen won the 9th Chunlan Cup in 2013, against Lee Sedol 9p, and it was his first major international title. He hasn’t won any international titles since then, but he’s still one of the top players in the world.
He likes to play thick and solid games, but he’s also a very good fighter. His reading is sharp and accurate, and his games are well balanced.
Mi Yuting 9 dan at the 29th Tianyuan final.
Mi Yuting was born in 1996, and is currently ranked #7 in China. This was Mi’s first Tianyuan final.
There was a very sensational event in December, 2013, when Mi Yuting defeated Gu Li in the 1st MLily Cup final with a 3-1 score.
In that tournament, Mi defeated Lee Sedol, Kang Dongyun, Kong Jie 9p, Dang Yifei 4p and Wang Xi 9p en route to the final.
Most Go fans didn’t doubt that Gu would win easily, because Mi was unknown at the time.
However, Mi showed his power and creativity in the final, and he became a new world champion.
His results in international tournaments since then haven’t been as impressive. However, he has a potential to become even more powerful in a few years, because he’s still quite young at 19 years old.
He used to play very tough fighting games, but he seems to prefer solid games recently.
Chen Yaoye played mirror Go as White, and I hope you’ll enjoy this interesting game.
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Younggil is going play a game with Lei Xin 5d, who is one of the strong and nice members of the Sydney Go Club.
Younggil will share his ideas and plans with you while playing. However Xin will be playing on the other side of the room so he can’t hear Younggil’s plans.
Let’s see if it’s fun and nice to learn something different from this format.
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Huang Yunsong 4p won the 2nd GLOBIS Cup World Go U-20, defeating Na Hyun 6p, on May 10, 2015.
This international tournament, for players who are 20 or younger, took place from May 8-10, 2015, at the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, Tokyo, Japan.
Li Qincheng 2p defeated Lee Donghun 5p in the playoff for third place.
Na Hyun 6 dan (left) and Huang Yunsong 4 dan in the final of the 2nd GLOBIS Cup.
Huang Yunsong was relatively unknown before this tournament, because his results in past international matches weren’t especially impressive.
However, we should expect to see his name more often now that he’s won this international youth tournament.
Huang was born in 1997, and became a pro in 2010.
Huang Yunsong 4 dan (left) at the 2nd GLOBIS Cup.
In 2012, he reached the final of the 19th Xinren Wang (Rookies’ Cup), but lost to Fan Tingyu 9p.
He was also in the final of the 7th Xinxiu (another tournament for rookies), but was defeated by Li Qincheng in 2013.
However, he won the 8th Xinxiu in 2014, defeating Ma Yichao 2p, and that was his first career title.
He’s currently ranked #33 in China, and is one of their top prospects.
16 players were invited to this tournament and, after they played together in the group stage, 8 players progressed through to the knockout phase.
Group stage of the 2nd GLOBIS Cup.
Ichiriki Ryo 7p, who was won the 1st GLOBIS Cup, was eliminated in the group stage. He defeated Lin Junyan 6p, but lost to Huang Yunsong 4p and Yo Seiki 7p.
Pavol Lisy 1p, who became a pro in 2014 and represented Europe in this tournament, played two tough games against Yang Dingxin 3p and Fujimura Yosuke 2p.
Unfortunately for Pavol, both of his games ended in his resignation.
In the quarter finals, Huang Yunsong 4p defeated Shin Jinseo 3p.
Na Hyun 6p defeated Yang Dingxin 3p, who was the favorite to win this tournament, and progressed to the semifinals.
Both Yu Seiki 7p and Sada Atsushi 2p lost to Lee Donghun 5p and Li Qincheng 2p, and the Japanese players were all eliminated by the end of the quarter finals.
In the semifinals, Huang Yunsong showed his power and strength in a massive fight with Lee Donghun. Huang won and proceeded to the final.
Meanwhile, Na Hyun retired Li Qincheng with his typical relaxed style of play.
Ironically, the game played in the final wasn’t that exciting. Both Huang Yunsong and Na Hyun played easy going moves, and it became a territorial game without any serious battles.
Live commentary of the final by O Meien 9p.
Huang took the lead with his nice reduction on the right side, and Na tried to attack White’s center group to catch up.
However, White 92 and 94 formed a nice counter, and White 112 was the vital point of the shape.
All of a sudden, Na resigned, and the game was finished by move 112, without any significant fighting.
At the 1st GLOBIS Cup, Ichiriki Ryo 7p won the title, and Kyo Kagen 2p took 2nd place. Both those players represented Japan, and it was very encouraging news for Japanese Go.
However, the young Japanese players didn’t proceed that far this time, and I hope they’ll be able to do better again next year.
This year, the participants were as follows:
Japan: Ichiriki Ryo 7p, Yu Seiki 7p (aka Yo Zhengqi), Motoki Katsuya 3p, Koyama Kuya 2p, Fujimura Yosuke 2p and Sada Atsushi 2p.
China: Huang Yunsong 4p, Yang Dingxin 3p and Li Qincheng 2p.
Korea: Na Hyun 6p, Lee Donghun 5p and Shin Jinseo 3p.
Taiwan: Lin Junyen 6p.
Europe: Pavol Lisy 1p.
North America: Lionel Zhang 7d.
Thailand: Krit Jamkachornkiat 4d.
All the participants at the 2nd GLOBIS Cup.
The GLOBIS Cup World Go U-20 is an international lightning tournament for 16 players aged 20 years and younger.
The players initially go through a group stage, similar to the Samsung Cup, or the FIFA World Cup. It uses a double elimination format, with 2 players progressing through each group.
The remaining 8 players compete in a simple knockout tournament (single elimination) to decide the winner.
The winner takes home 3 million Yen (about $25,000 USD at the time of writing) and the runner up receives 500,000 Yen.
The tournament is sponsored by GLOBIS University.
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The Pandanet AGA City League has come down to one more match. At the US Go Congress in St Paul, MN, Los Angeles will face off against Greater Washington. Playing for the Los Angeles team (left) will be Mark Lee, Evan Cho, and Daniel Ko. Playing for Greater Washington (right) will be Tim Song, Eric Lui, Yuan Zhou, and Jie Li. These players will face off on Saturday August 1st. Come watch live in person or on Pandanet-IGS.
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May 23-24: Baltimore, MD
42nd Maryland Open
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In March 2015 the second European pro qualifications were held in Pisa. Our new teacher, Cristian Pop, comments on his game against Andrii Kravets. Get inspired by the wedge!
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