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Welcome to our special E-Journal tournament
edition, with reports on this weekend’s Cotsen Open in Los Angeles and
the German Championship, as well as recent tournaments in Chicago, New
York City and the European Championship for Students. As a bonus for
all our readers, we’re including several games from the Cotsen,
including Yilun Yang’s comments on Jang Bi’s 3rd-round game against
Juyong Koh and Yang’s pro-pro game against Chao Da Yuan 9P. Look for
our regular Monday edition tomorrow. |
September
21, 2008; Volume 9, #49 SPECIAL EDITION!
Welcome to our special E-Journal tournament edition, with
reports on this weekend’s Cotsen Open in Los Angeles and the German
Championship, as well as recent tournaments in Chicago, New York City
and the European Championship for Students and the latest from the
Meijin in Japan. As a bonus for all our readers, we’re including
several games from the Cotsen, including Yilun Yang’s comments on Jang
Bi’s 3rd-round game against Juyong Koh and Yang’s pro-pro game against
Chao Da Yuan 9P. Look for our regular Monday edition tomorrow.
he second
straight year. The Cotsen attracted a
record crowd of 155 players – including an Open section of 20 top
players -- to a new and larger venue this year, the Bradley
International Center at UCLA. "This was the largest the tournament has
ever been," an exhausted but beaming Cotsen told the E-JournalSunday
night after the awards ceremony. "Next year we'll break 200!" Bi, the
27 year-old former Korean insei who now lives and teaches go in
Seattle, WA, thrilled online crowds of up to 400 with
exciting games broadcast live on KGS by the E-Journal.
Saturday night MyungWan Kim 8P had a rematch with the Mogo computer
program – which defeated him at the Congress in a 9-stone handicap game
– and won both games. Sunday morning Yilun Yang 7P played a pro-pro
demo game against his former student Chao Da Yuan 9P, who’s now a coach
in China. The Cotsen, co-sponsored by Eric Cotsen and the American
Go Association, features $5,000 in prizes and one of
the largest and strongest fields on the annual AGA tournament calendar.
Casie Rizer organized the event and Chris Hayashida was Tournament
Director. Also helping out were La Nida Cedeno, Sue Gisser, A.J.
LapRise and Christopher Mitchell. The EJ broadcast team included Chris
Garlock, Akane Negishi, Richard Dolen and
Joe Cepiel. photos by Tony Lau
Championship
for Students, held at the end of August in a fortress on the
Mediterranean island of Sainte Marguerite. Nemly narrowly edged out Jan
Hora 6d of Czechia, who took second, while Frenchman Jerome Salignon 4d
finished third. Nemly is from Kazan, known as the "City of European
Champions" because for more than a decade, all European Champions
hailed from there. Alexander Dinerchtein, Andrej Kulkov, Svetlana
Shiksina and Ilya Shiksin kept the title there until Catalin Taranu 5P
of Rumania took it home to Bucharest this year. Nemly has won several
European youth titles before, and in this year’s Student Championship
he defeated Hora and Salignon -- who both finished at 5-1 -- before
losing to Martin Kuzela 3d of Czechia, who won 4th place with a 4-2
finish. Kuzela just missed the bronze in the last round in a direct
challenge with Salignon. Manuela Marz 3d of Germany was the only other
top contender with a positive result and the highest finishing female
player. In the dan-section 16 students, four of them female, competed
for the title, while ten players participated in the kyu section. Only
Quentin Turlot 5k of France and Mark Nubbert 4k of Great Britain had
positive results. The event was held just outside of Cannes in the
South of France and during the tournament many players took
advantage of the chance to cool off a bit in between the rounds with a
swim in the deep blue sea. Click here www.dgob.de for
full details 
Dijkema,
European Correspondent for the E-JournalIYAMA
MAKES IT 2-0 IN MEIJIN: Teen Iyama
Yuta 8P continued his extraordinary run by taking
the second game from Cho
U 9P in the Meijin title
match by a half point on September 17-18. This is the first time
someone so young has played in a best-of-seven-game title match and at
this point he has yet to lose a game. Cho must now win four of the next
five games to retain his title. The third game is scheduled for
September 24-25. Iyama is also only one game away from being the
challenger for the Kisei title, as reported in last week’s EJ.
Published by the American Go Association
Managing Editor: Chris Garlock
Assistant Editor: Bill Cobb
Professionals: Yilun Yang 7P; Alexandr Dinerchtein 3P; Fan Hui 2P
Contributors: Paul Barchilon (Youth Editor); Lawrence Ku (U.S. West
Coast Reporter); Brian Allen (U.S. West Coast Photographer); Keith
Arnold (Go Quiz); Peter Dijkema (Dutch/European Correspondent);
Marilena Bara (Romania/European Correspondent); Ian Davis (Ireland
Correspondent); Jens Henker (Korea Correspondent)
Columnists: James Kerwin 1P; Kazunari Furuyama; Rob van Zeijst; Roy
Laird; Peter Shotwell
Translations: Chris Donner (Japan); Bob McGuigan (Japan); Matt Luce
(China)
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