Tsumego - A hard one

Black to play for ko.

Yi Sedol vs Pak Jeongsang

Yesterday was a game of the 2nd stage in the Korean Baduk League. 이 세돌 vs 박 영상.

First the black group was dead but after a mistake (?) from Jeongsang Sedol was back in the game and won the semeai in an impressive way. Move 42 and move 78 were the losing moves I suppose.

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My shortest game on tygem so far...

Here a game I played few minutes ago...Is the resignation in this situation okay ? I am black.




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My EGC review

This year was my first Baduk congress in Bordeaux, France. I was registrated as 2k and I played so bad that I lost over 140 rating points... I have learned a lot - I think - and will work more about my weaknesses. My next goal is to play well at the next city championship which will be in September.

organisation:

I think the orga was okay but really strict. I wanted to play the lightning tournament and I was too late for registration....at 2.15 p.m. If you wanted to play, e.g. the lightning tournament, you have to registrate before 12 a.m.. The tournament starts at 5 p.m....kinda shit. Of course I didn't know that before -.-

players strength:

I think the main problem of this congress were the French players ranks. Due to their system, I heard that they just can rank up after a tournament, if I am correct. So people registrated as 1k, 4k or 5k or even weaker played good results like 7:3, 8:2, 9:1 or even 10:0 - btw...5:0 in the first week.
E.g. a friend of mine - 4dan - played a 1k with a standing of 7:0!

Anyway the French system should be overthought !!!

accommondation:

I lived in a nice and big house with other people... It was very comfortable, besides their kids ^^ - who were very noisy from time to time. The house had a pool :)

First place was Kim Yeongsam from South Korea with a perfect score of 10 victories. Ilya Shikshin placed second and defended his European title against Catalin Taranu, who got third. Here are some pics of the podium:

Kim Yeongsam 7dan

Ilya Shikshin 7dan

Catalin Taranu 5p

Besides the best players of the main tournament I saw a nice future of the European Baduk community...there were many young highdan players from several countries:

Artem Kachanovskyy 7dan

Thomas Debarre 6dan

Ali Jabarin 6dan

Dusan Mitic 6dan

Jonathan Lidor 5dan

Lukas Kraemer 5dan

Pavol Lisy 5dan

Vanessa Wong 5dan

A-J Savolainen 5dan

I hope these players can eager the top European players in the near future.

RESULTS:

First week
Second week
Week-end tournament

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Fighting against Youngsun

My most recent game against Youngsun, kinda fightsy...



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Hard Tsumego

As some of you might already be bored with the easy Speedtraining Tsumegos I thought that you might appreciate a realy hard one.

Chinese Rules, 7.5 Komi
W to play if you can prevend a defeat or resign if there are no possibilities.

5th GG Auction Cup - part 3

The nineth and and tenth game were played and the senior team got a victory! An Kwangwuk won by resignation. I think the game was favourable for Jeong, but in the endgame nearly on counting she resigned.

 

Pros knwo when to resign and hopefully she was right ;) Decide for yourself :)

Here are some pros replaying the game of  Choi and An:

The tenth game were plaed by An and Kim Nahyun. Nahyun is 1dan professional and she is pro since 2009. She is born in 1991 December 6th.

cute isn't she?

Beside her vita she could win the game by 5.5 points. 

Here are the games:

nineth game:

tenth game:



Hopefully the female team can go on and win this tournament...let's cheer for them :)

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