Har Har Har 
How can you say such a thing??? You just devastated my hopes of ever becoming a pro. 
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Los Angeles team joins Chinese city league; report from Liuzhou
https://www.usgo.org/news/2019/05/losangeles-team-joins-chinese-city-league-report-from-liuzhou/
Transatlantic go: no game today
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Any idea why game 5 of the transatlantic go championship was delayed a week?
I assume they want to make sure that that time-out debacle doesn’t repeat.
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Or at least have a pre-emptive decision on most possibilities
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https://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/event/amakisen/worldama/40/participants.html
List of participants for World Amateur Go Championship that starts June, 2. That’s a lot of countries to root for.
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Shibano Toramaru lost to Ichiriki Ryo in 44th Kisei league.
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Kim Jiseok won against Ke Jie in Chinese league by half a point.
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Iyama Yuta wins Kono Rin in 3rd Honinbo game by half a point, Kono Rin 2 - 1 Iyama Yuta.
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Check it out, European games in China on yike:
Mateusz Surma against someone https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/19064/1/16677025
Artem Kachanovskyi against someone https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/19063/1/16676404
You can read about the league on lifein19x19 https://lifein19x19.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=16697
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31th Asian TV Cup
From left to right: Kim Jiseok 9p, Ichiriki Ryo 8p, Ding Hao 5p, Shin Jinseo 9p, Xu Jiayang 8p, Iyama Yuta 9p, Shin Minjun 9p.
First three games are on 21st, two semis are on 22nd, and finals are on 23rd.
Ichiriki Ryo 0-1 Ding Hao (white) https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/19163/1/16880729
Pics:
Shin Jinseo 1-0 Xu Jiayang (white) https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/19166/1/16882508
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Iyama Yuta (white) 0-1 Shin Minjun https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/19164/1/16880765
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As usual, Japanese are eliminated in the first round. In semifinals we have 3 to 1 Korean advantage.
Semifinal 1:
Kim Jiseok (white) 0-1 Ding Hao https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/19181/1/16915393
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Antti Törmänen (born 28 June 1989) is a professional Go player from Oulu, Finland.
That’s today!
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Lee Sedol won a game today. Opponent is significantly lower rated than him, but that’s still pretty good.
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/19482/1/17403668
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/19506/1/17442539
Lee Sedol lost today to Wang Zejin (goratings #79).
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“Iyama Defends Honinbo for 8 years”
The game 6 of the 74th Honinbo title match (Sponsor: Mainich Shimbun newpaper) was played in Osaka in 3 and 4 July 2019.
Iyama Yuta 9p, the defending champion, beat the challenger Kono Rin 9p by resignation after 171 moves at 19:01h and Iyama defended the title for 8 years in a row!!
For Past and present Honinbo title Holders who have defended the title for 5 consecutive years or more (*Honorary Status):
- Cho Chikun (25th Honinbo): 10 years in a row (1989-98)
- Takagawa kaku (22nd Honinbo): 9 years in a row (1952-60)
- Iyama Yuta 9p: 8 years in a row (2012-present)
- Sakata Eio (23rd Honinbo): 7 years in a row (1961-67)
- Ishida Yoshio (24th Honinbo): 5 years in a row (1971-75)
Saw this on Facebook Nihon ki-in.
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Nakamura Sumire won a game against Tanaka Chieko 4p in (her second) official match. Checkmate, unbeliever.
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First official win.
Moreover: “youngest person ever to win an official match”.
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Well done. 
Sumire played as white, so she beat Tanaka Chieko on her strongest color.
- 8/27 = 29.6% as black
- 5/21 = 23.8% as white
Her last recorded game happened in 2017, a game she lost to Inaba Karin 1p, who also beat Gansheng Shi two years prior. Before that, the most recent game I can find is from 2007. Her last recorded win dates back to 2004, a bloody 161-move-game versus Okuma Chikeko 3p.
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