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We recently received a shipment of Go books from Oromedia.

Unfortunately, Oromedia went out of business last year and won’t be publishing or printing any more Go books.

The books that we’ve received from them are the last ones and they’re now out of print.

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Save 50% plus

Because we were able to buy these books at a discounted price, we’ve decided to pass the savings on to Go Game Guru readers and sell these books at very cheap prices.

Nearly all of them are priced at $10 or less, which is more than 50% off the prices at other stores (where they usually cost $20 to $30 each).

Don’t miss out

I added all the books to our website over the weekend and they’re already selling quickly.

If you’re a collector, click here now to see which books are still available.

First come, first served

There’s limited stock and there’s no way to restock once titles sell out. To make this fair, orders will be managed strictly on a first come, first served basis.

Our online store will keep track of stock and who ordered first, and once books sell out they’ll disappear from this page.

Once that happens the only way to get them will be if someone cancels their order, or if someone sells them to you second hand (though out of print Go books are often expensive on the second hand market).

So, if you see something you like, please act quickly. Because there won’t be anything we can do to help you once a book sells out (even though we may want to).

Shipping from the US and UK only

We’ve split the remaining stock of Oromedia books in half, between our locations in the US and Europe.

If a particular book runs out of stock in one location, then our store will automatically route all orders for that book to the other location until it’s sold out.

If you have questions about order routing and stock levels, please feel free to leave a comment below.

Full list of Oromedia books

Here’s the list of titles which we received from Oromedia:

• The Speed Baduk Series
• 100 Tips for Amateur Players 2
• A Life of One Hundred Years Seems Like a Game of Baduk
• Creative Life and Death 1
• Creative Life and Death 2
• Inspiration of Pro
• Korean Style of Baduk 1
• The Best Game Records of 2009
• The Master of Haengma
• Think Like a Pro: Haengma
• Think Like a Pro: Pae
• Train Like a Pro 1
• Train Like a Pro 2

Click here to see which books are still in stock

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Shi Yue 9 dan at the 2014 Samsung Cup

The 2014 Samsung Cup resumed this week, with the round of 16 and the quarter finals taking place in Daejeon, Korea.

The round of 16

The Round of 16 took place on October 14, 2014. There were eight players from China, seven from Korea and one from Japan (Murakawa Daisuke 7p) who qualified for this round.

Unfortunately for Murakawa Daisuke and his fans, he was bested by Tang Weixing 9p’s sabaki skills, leaving only Chinese and Korean players to proceed to the quarter finals.

Murakawa Daisuke 7 dan faced Tang Weixing 9 dan in the round of 16.

Rui Naiwei 9p played her typical powerful game as Black, against Kim Jiseok 9p, but the game became difficult for her after White lived skillfully inside Black’s moyo and her dream run came to an end.

Round of 16 results

The full results from the round of 16 were as follows:

• Park Junghwan 9p defeated Yan Huan 5p
• Kim Jiseok 9p defeated Rui Naiwei 9p
• Lee Sedol 9p defeated Liao Xingwen 3p
• Kang Dongyun 9p defeated Lian Xiao 4p
• Zhou Ruiyang 9p defeated Cho Hanseung 9p
• Shi Yue 9p defeated Kim Seungjae 6p
• Rong Yi 4p defeated Kang Seungmin 3p, and
• Tang Weixing 9p defeated Murakawa Daisuke 7p.

2014 Samsung Cup quarter finalists (from left): Tang Weixing, Kang Dongyun, Zhou Ruiyang, Park Junghwan, Shi Yue, Lee Sedol, Rong Yi and Kim Jiseok.

2014 Samsung Cup quarter finals

The quarter finals were played on October 16.

Four Chinese players and four Korean players progressed from the round of 16, so the sponsor arranged the draw to create four ‘China vs Korea’ matches.

Whether by luck or skill, it turned out that Korea was represented by it’s top four players (by current domestic rating) – Park Junghwan, Kim Jiseok, Lee Sedol and Kang Dongyun.

China also fielded a strong team, including Shi Yue (#1), Zhou Ruiyang (#2) and Tang Weixing (#7).

Park Junghwan defeated Zhou Ruiyang

Park Junghwan’s style is very strong against Zhou Ruiyang. Their head to head record to date is 7-1 in Park’s favor.

Park chalked up another win to extend the record against Zhou to 8-1.

Park Junghwan 9 dan defeated Zhou Ruiyang 9 dan in the quarter finals.

Shi Yue defeated Lee Sedol

Shi Yue tends to have trouble against Lee Sedol too. Their head to head record is 4-1 in Lee’s favor.

However, Lee struggled to win a crucial ko in a complicated game, and Shi proceeded to the semifinals.

Shi Yue 9 dan and Lee Sedol 9 dan at the 2014 Samsung Cup.

Tang Weixing defeated Kang Dongyun

Tang Weixing and Kang Dongyun played their second game together (previous record 1-0 to Tang).

Kang was leading the game as White up to 126, but he went all out to kill Black’s invasion at 127 and the game fell to shreds after Black escaped.

Kim Jiseok 9 dan proved too strong for Rui Naiwei 9 dan and Rong Yi 4 dan.

Kim Jiseok defeated Rong Yi

Kim Jiseok and Rong Yi played together for the first time and Kim overpowered Rong with his sharp attacking play.

This was Rong Yi’s career best record in an international tournament so far.

Quarter final results

• Park Junghwan 9p defeated Zhou Ruiyang 9p by resignation
• Kim Jiseok 9p defeated Rong Yi 4p by resignation
• Shi Yue 9p defeated Lee Sedol 9p by resignation, and
• Tang Weixing 9p defeated Kang Dongyun 9p by resignation.

Semifinals in November

Tang Weixing – the defending champion in this tournament – will face Park Junghwan in the semifinals, and Shi Yue will meet Kim Jiseok.

The semifinals will also take place in Daejeon, from November 5-7, 2014. Players will have to win a best of three match to proceed to the final.

2014 Samsung Cup semifinalists (from left): Tang Weixing and Park Junghwan, Shi Yue and Kim Jiseok.

2014 Samsung Cup photos

Game records

Shi Yue vs Lee Sedol

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Zhou Ruiyang vs Park Junghwan

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Tang Weixing vs Kang Dongyun

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Kim Jiseok vs Rong Yi

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This is the eighth and final game of the MLily Gu vs Lee Jubango.

Gu Li 9 dan (left, at board) and Lee Sedol 9 dan review the final game of their 10 game match.

This game was played on September 28, 2014, in Chongqing, China – which is Gu Li’s hometown.

The score going into this game was 5-2 in Lee Sedol’s favor which meant that this game was a kadoban for Gu and might be the last of the match.

In game 7, Gu had a nice opening, and Gu managed the game very smoothly until the middle game. However, Gu played a careless move, and Lee reversed the game with a sudden attack.

After Gu lost game 7, the atmosphere of the match changed, and a lot of Chinese journalists and Go fans lost interest in the Jubango. That’s because even if Gu won all three of the remaining games, the best result he could achieve was a tie.

We’re writing a book about this match

This commentary, and others, will form the basis for our Go book about Lee Sedol and Gu Li’s jubango. The actual book will contain a more extensive commentary of this game, but you can regard what you see below as a draft (learn more).

Please help us to make our first Go book as good as possible. There are several ways you can help us to improve the commentary below:

1. Ask questions about the game – if anything is unclear, please let us know so we can explain it better!
2. Point out any mistakes, even minor typos – our first draft is below. Because this is going to be a book, even small mistakes need to be fixed.
3. Tell your friends and ask them to help too.

The rules of the game

The time limit for these games is 3 hours and 55 minutes, with 1 minute x 5 times byo-yomi. It’s traditional to subtract 5 minutes from the 4 hour total, because of the 5 x 1 minute periods.

There’s no lunch break scheduled for these games, but food is provided and the players are free to get up and eat whenever they want, throughout the game.

Anyway, let’s have a look at game 8 of the MLily Gu vs Lee Jubango.

Commented game record

Gu Li vs Lee Sedol – Game 8

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