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Finals for the 21st annual Redmond Cup got under way Sunday afternoon at the US Go Congress. In the senior division, two-year reigning champion Jianing Gan 7d faced off against Bill Lin 7d, who was undefeated in the preliminary rounds; both are 17 and in their last year of eligibility to compete in the Redmond. Gan, playing black, was determined not to lose, and defeated Lin by 3.5 points. In the Junior Division twelve-year-old Jeremy Chiu 6d duked it out with 3-year reigning champ Aaron Ye 6d. Chiu edged out top seed David Lu 6d in the preliminaries for the chance to play Ye in the finals. Ye, who spent much of the game sucking on a lollipop, forced Chiu into byo-yomi and then won on time. The next games in both divisions will be broadcast live on KGS (USGO1 and USGO2) at 3pm on Monday and Thursday. Story by Paul Barchilon with Karoline Li. Photo: Ye plays the Lollipop Tesuji at the Redmond Finals. Photo by Paul Barchilon
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