Players making the short walk from the hotel were treated to a sudden downpour, but almost all of them were in their seats at the AER complex in time for chief referee Masaki Takemiya’s 9:30 instruction to start playing. Russia’s … Continue reading →
White: Ilya Shikshin (Russia) 7d Black: Kikou Emura (Japan) 7d Kikou punishes an early overplay by Shikshin, but then slowly loses his advantage with slack moves and then falters in the endgame. Click here to start the game … Continue reading →
White: Yuqing Hu (China) 8d Black: Kikou Emura (Japan) 7d Black wins every ko fight in this game, but the cost is too high. Click here to start the game viewer. Commentary by Michael Redmond 9p, transcribed by … Continue reading →
The seeded players in the 34th World Amateur Championship were the players from China, Chinese Taipei, Japan, and Korea. Being seeded meant only that these four were not paired against each other in the first four rounds. Since Wei-shin Lin … Continue reading →
The force of Kikou Emura’s first stone of the day touching down squarely on the board could not conceal a slight tremble of the hand. Japan’s hope lost his all-important game this morning to Chinese player Yuqing Hu, a real … Continue reading →
White: Hyunjae Choi (Korea) 6d Black: Bill Tianyu Lin (Canada) 7d Black doesn’t make any major mistakes in this undramatic game, yet White slowly but surely pulls ahead, building up an insurmountable lead. Click here to start the game … Continue reading →
White: Curtis Tang (USA) 6d Black: Jia Cheng Tan (Singapore) 6d Black not only misses a chance to take a territorial lead at a key moment in the game, but then overlooks a fatal weakness in his shape that costs … Continue reading →
Cornel Burzo (Romania, 6d) was nowhere to be seen this morning, an empty seat facing his opponent Shin-Wei Lin (Chinese Taipei). That was until we spotted him across the room wrapping tape around a pair of spectacles belonging to an … Continue reading →
At 9:20 on September 3 China’s Yuqing Hu and Canada’s Bill Lin took their seats at the two boards on the left end of the front row in the playing area. Their opponents Kikou Emura (Japan) and Hyunjae Choi (Korea) … Continue reading →
White: Hyungjae Choi (Korea) 6d Black: Merlijn Kuin (Netherlands) 6d The outcome of this game turns on the carpenters square, which has many variations and is a bit complicated but well worth the study. Click here to start the game … Continue reading →