Interesting, I wonder why they picked Vietnam over say Thailand, another south-east Asian nation without pros but top-level amateurs, maybe the sponsor has some Vietnamese link?
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The Vietnamese girl also won in the world group selection for Samsung Cup. Not sure whether that’s related. I was surprised to see her there too.
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Girl? How old is she?
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Born 2006 so 19 years old this year.
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So we should say better woman as girl if you don’t mind. Would you call a 19 yrs old pro male “a boy” ?
The news just said they’d like to support the Vietnamize Baduk community, so your idea that they have connections in Vietnam (likely from the Shinhan Bank) is a good guess.
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Here is a post from Go Magic like a year ago, KBA supported a Vietnam national tournament for the first time, and you can see Quynh Anh Ha in the picture as well.
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I was wrong. Park crushed Ichiriki.
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There has been a long discussion on the subject:
Semi-finals Part 1 Streams:
Games will start at 2025-12-29T01:00:00Z
Wang Xinghao 9p (China) VS Shibano Toramaru 9p (Japan)
For the full results and games, please refer to here.
Poll: Who will be the first to get into the finals?
- Wang Xinghao
- Shibano Toramaru
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Semi-finals Part 2 Streams:
Games will start at 2025-12-29T05:00:00Z
Park Junghwan 9p (Korea) VS Dang Yifei 9p (China)
For the full results and games, please refer to here.
Poll: Park Junghwan is the only Korean left. Can he make a breakthrough?
- Yes, he will beat Dang Yifei and get into the finals
- No, Dang Yifei will win and get into the finals
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Thanks to link this thread. You know that was a debate 2 years ago. She’s a bit older. That’s just making it worse now.
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The 2023 discussion was about a 27 year old, while the current discussion is about a 19 year old. But I don’t want to derail the thread, better talk about it in the other one.
This review came up in my feed:
Very interesting. 
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another fantastic review, very well explained and the moves within that game were so solid that they are actually understandable (and thus useful) for us amateurs.
And then there is the next game, also very well reviewed:
Seems like a channel that is worth subscribing to.
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