Not sure what you mean by “overloaded”. Yikeweiqi site sometimes takes long to load but usually works fine. As far as I understand 4 strongest pros from Europe are now going to participate in China’s third go league. And these matches are their preparation for the main event.
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Sunday was quite a go day.
73rd Honinbo match, game 3 (第７３期本因坊戦 第３局)
Iyama Yuta won with white stones, this puts him in the lead 2-1. However there’re still 4 games left. Next game is going to be played on June, 12.
Game record: link
Leela’s graph: link
Golaxy Training Camp
Last game of Golaxy Training Camp was finished: Artem Kachanovskyi vs Golaxy, link (with English commentary).
Haylee vs Leela, game 6
Very exciting handicap game that turned into giant fight: game link
9th Longxing
Semifinal between Liu Xing and Ke Jie: link (with English commentary)
First game of the final between Lian Xiao and Ke Jie is going to be played tomorrow, 13:00 in Chinese time. Link for the English commentary: link
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Facebook AI “OpenGo” to play simuls at 2018 U.S. Go Congress
http://www.usgo.org/news/2018/06/facebook-ai-opengo-to-play-simuls-at-2018-u-s-go-congress/
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I’m very interested to see what kind of annotations OpenGo will give
The #MeToo movement has struck Go. A disciplinary committee of the Korean Baduk Association (KBA) resolved on June 8, 2018 to strip popular BadukTV commentator Kim Sungryong of his 9 dan rank and to expel him from the KBA. This comes following allegations of sexual assault by a foreign female Korean pro where Kim allegedly forced himself on her in 2009. Alcohol was involved.
Note: the female pro is named in the sources but is anonymous here for reasons.
Korean Source: http://cyberoro.com/news/news_view.oro?div_no=A1&num=524435
Context in English: http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3047742
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I’m curious what “unfairness” this is aimed at addressing…
The headline should have been: Bullshit company pays Lee SeDol a lot of money so it can use his name to sell bullshit. Why didn’t they call themselves Buzzword Inc.?
This is gonna crash and burn very quickly.
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There is a surprisingly thin line between Go World News and Go World Bullshit.
Facebook releases “slightly improved” ELF OpenGo now “v1” (still 224x20 blocks).
Download here: Releases · pytorch/ELF · GitHub
Leela Zero converted weight: Userscloud
Announcement: 世界人工智能大赛总结 - 知乎
Translation:
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Looks like Cho Chikun won against Kurotaki Masaki, not bad:
http://eidogo.com/#222GLVA
Also Shibano Toramaru won against Sun Zhe, which puts him 3-1 in 44th Meijin league. Currently Kono Rin is leading it 3-0. Interestingly Iyama Yuta is going 1-2, one of two lost games was against Shibano.
http://eidogo.com/#3SePnN2S0
Also I’d like to recommend this website for go news from around the world in a more or less comprehensible manner: http://www.yigo.org
And if someone doesn’t browse lifein19x19 that often, Lee Sedol is retiring: https://lifein19x19.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=16486
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Well LSD will probably always be remembered as the last human Go player to win a game against the best available bot. 
Legend SeDol!
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Yes, Lee Sedol’s immortal confusion tesuji that won him the one game was the ear-reddening move of this century.
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Yamashita equalized Kisei match, 3-3. Looks like Iyama could win until the very end but blundered somehow.
This could be the title of my autobiography.
Edit: or my headstone.
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Also, looks like we have some exciting match-ups to be broadcasted on yikeweiqi:
Fan Tingyu (#7) vs Chen Yaoye (#15)
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/16203/1/12655395
Ke Jie (#2) vs Mi Yuting (#4)
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/16202/1/12652871
Lian Xiao (#6) vs Gu Zihao (#5)
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/16198/1/12649799
you, folks, you’re my tribe.
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Is it just me, or does Ke Jie look kind of like a Chinese Magnus Carlsen?
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Both have a bit of a chin, yes. 
Yesterday the results were:
檀啸 (Tan Xiao) 1-0 谢尔豪 (Xie Erhao)
连笑 (Lian Xiao) 1-0 辜梓豪 (Gu Zihao)
范廷钰 (Fan Tingyu) 1-0 陈耀烨 (Chen Yaoye)
芈昱廷 (Mi Yuting) 1-0 柯洁 (Ke Jie)
So since it’s double elimination, winners play with winners and losers play with losers today:
檀啸 (Tan Xiao) vs 连笑 (Lian Xiao) https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/16236/1/12691574
范廷钰 (Fan Tingyu) vs 芈昱廷 (Mi Yuting) https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/16230/1/12685789
辜梓豪 (Gu Zihao) vs 谢尔豪 (Xie Erhao)
陈耀烨 (Chen Yaoye) vs 柯洁 (Ke Jie) https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/16241/1/12695243
Foxy relays all four games also.
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