Hannover Tournament 2011

Hi guys,

last weekend I was in Hannover, Germany on a tournament called "Messeturnier Hannover" on 16./17.04.2011.
It was a small, but very nice and well organized tournament. I started as 3k - after my last tournament i had to promote myself from 5k to 3k :)

In the first round I got to play a 3k. He wasn't pretty strong but I had my problems with him. I've lost with black by 11.5 pts. The second was better for me, cause I crushed my opponent, a 3k.  In the last round of the day, I played another 3k. I think I was up to the middle game ahead, but in the endgame I lost a big group. The game ended by alot for my opponent.

I slept with some other guys at a players house in Hannover and it was no other like Christoph Gerlach, 6dan. We ate at a Greek restaurant and reviewd for top board game from a 4dan. It was a nice evening and around 12pm we went to his flat. At "home" we reviewed anoter game, this time just a 2kyu game ;)
At 2am we got some sleep :)

The next morning was kinda hard for me, less sleep...But anyway I played against a 5k, who had until that time a 3:0 series. In this game I got some profit and in the end I won by 19.5 pts. In the last round I played against a 2k. I could have won the game if I didn't do such a reading mistake in the endgame. It was 15-20 pts worth. So I resigned cause I was ~10pts behind.

Between the breaks I got I visited the top boards to have a look on them.

- a1r -

First daily European Baduk Show

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Murugandi reviews - A Daily Video Go Show !!!!
Monday - Friday from 7pm at www.EuroGoTV.com



After the final play-offs for the Dutch Championships, in february of this year, KGS player 'Murugandi' (6d) and HW9x9 (weak) took the initiative of reviewing the decisive matches of the tournament. Live on videostream, the audience from KGS could watch the two players commenting on the exciting game between Peter Brouwer (6d) and what proved to be the Dutch champion of 2011, Merlijn Kuin (6d). Positive reactions followed and one of the videos was placed on the EuroGoTV website, where it got more than 300 views in just a few days.
Enthusiastic viewers e-mailed the EuroGoTV team, asking for more...




Now, almost two months later, those wishes will finally be fulfilled.
In the shape of a fresh daily video series, Murugandi an! d HW9x9 will work together and review games played by strong dan-players from big and interesting tournaments held all over Europe.

The discussing of the games will focus on the basics of go, concerning aspects like making bases, watching out for your own weaknesses, how to use your own strength and cancel your opponents, and whole-board strategies like moyo. By emphasising the basic principles of go, and using proverbs and metaphores to clarify the explanations, they generally aim for an audience between 15kyu-1kyu, but also hope to entertain stronger players and positively stimulate complete beginners. The format of the interaction between the two reviewers is a parody on traditional Japanese go commentaries, consisting of one 'stupid' person, HW9x9, who asks all sorts of interesting and funny questions, who are then calmly answered by a stronger player, Murugandi.

With the help and support of the Dutch Go Association

and the European Go Cultural Centre

, we are able to provide you with new, hopefully exciting games every day from 7pm Amsterdam time. From monday to friday new videos will be uploaded on a daily basis in the Video

section on the website, and old reviews are available to watch in the archive.

Feel free to let them know your thoughts and suggestions, and most of all, enjoy!

6th Sipdan Round 3

Yi Sedol won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They played the same Fuseki and this time Yi proved that he had learned from the last game.
Funny fact: r12 is wrong, according to 21st Century New Openings 3, as it makes things to easy for white, seeing the giant territory on the right side I think I can understand why.

There also where some pretty nice exchanges in this game and thus it made me realise that i realy have to do something about my judgement.



-blackmoa

6th Sipdan Round 2

Yi Sedol lost the second round of the 6th Wonik Sipdan, now the score is 1:1 and the third game will decide the winner.

Yi lost by 0,5 points because he couldn't win the Ko. At first I thought: hey Yi could take the Ko instead of playing q7 and then Black is short one threat, but then I saw t10 and realised that black had 3 threats and not 2 like I thought for a moment.



-blackmoa

3rd BC Card Cup Quarter Finals Round 4

In the last round of the quarter finals Gu Li won against Kim Jiseok, which makes him the only non Korean player to win in the quarter finals. He will face Heo Yeongho in his next game.

The Game started with two big Moyos and then turned into a fightning game in which i felt like Gu Li was clearly superior until he won by resignation. I think we can learn quite some stuff about reduction and invasion from this game.




-blackmoa

3rd BC Card Cup Quarter Finals Round 3

Heo Yeongho(8p) won against Zhong Wenjing in the 3rd round of the quarter finals of teh 3rd BC Card Cup.
Finally another game with a mini chinese Fuseki, I haven't seen that for some time.
The game is nice to watch, but a realy astonishing move is missing so it's "just" a "normal" pro game.



-blackmoa

3rd BC Card Cup Quarter Finals Round 2

Yi Sedol won against Chen Yaoye, and therefore will face Park Junghwan in the next round. I'm looking forward to this game, the last one between thos two was realy thrilling.

So now the game against Chen Yaoye:
No big kills this time but simply a nice game. Yi played a nice Fuseki (according to him he sucks at Fuseki and is going to study it now) and then started figthing. The game was relatively even and Yi won by 2.5 points in the end.



-blackmoa