Chinese Consulate General Cup (or something like that) was just held in Saint Petersburg. 133 participants!
Kim Seong-jin took the first place, Kim YoungSam is the second, 3rd - Shikshin, all with 5 wins. 4th - Kachanovskii, 5th - Dinersteyn, 6th - Podpera, all with 4 wins.
Found this article today, couldn’t help thinking about this thread:
I neglected to say how great this video was.
The Paris Go tournament was just cancelled as well (it included one step of the Grand Slam).
Oh no ;___;
I wanted to go to that
Love the subtle plug for OGS even before they voted 
That twitter account has been very active, and has linked to a new YouTube channel - in the comments it says expect a new video each week/weekend
Actually I think he’s using OGS too which is cool.
Wow! That is a great photo, the last one! Definitely would have been geo-guesser material. Probably very easy, but it’ is awesome to see the room of Nick Sibicky’s videos !
Funny thing: I’ve always had the impression from his videos that he’s stuck in almost a corridor somewhere, making the best of it 
I had no idea it was such a nice, well fitted out room!
Nihon Kiin and Kansai Kiin suspend their work because of coronavirus emergency in Japan. No games, no nothing.
Japanese pros are having fun. Just a little while ago they had 9x9 tournament and right now they’re having 13x13 tournament. Too bad it’s on u-gen no ma which is a paid service. Maybe game records will surface at some point.
China beat Europe twice, America once in team online competitions. Now it’s time for Russia vs China win and continue match. From may 4th every day at 19:00 Beijing time on Yike.
Russian team:
Chinese team:
In the first game Feng Shengjingrui beat Dina Burdakova: https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/40561/1/36573020
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/40604/1/36619580
In a youngsters game (14 yo vs 13 yo) Alexandr Muromcev 3d won against Feng Shengjingrui 6d. He played white and got an early lead but then was giving away little by little and had bad endgame but held nicely in small endgame and won by a couple of points. Yike works very poorly from Russia. Dina Burdakova reported moves not coming through. In this one game Alex also almost timed out.
But this tournament has sportsmanship unlike some other. Moderators stopped the game when Alex was about to time out, waited for him to reconnect and added 2 or 3 byo-yomi periods back to his clock. That’s pretty cool, changing byo-yomi periods in a live game.
Today Alexandr Muromcev played against Sui Qinghan 5d and lost.
Because of the problems with yike the tournament was moved to OGS but I woke up too late to announce 
Yesterday Sui Qinghan won once more against Vasilij Jakovlev-Chernyshev. What a strong 11 year old.
Lots of people watched, around concurrent 150 viewers. We had Xhu, we had Ilya Shikshin watching.
The game went similarly to the previous one. Russian player got an advantage early on but as more fighting occurred Sui was getting back and eventually got the lead. This underlines the way go is taught in the West. We pay more attention to strategic concepts and in the East the focus is more on reading.
Today Guan Xin 6d played Igor Burnaevskij 6d. The Chinese player won. It was a really close game with some impressive endgame tricks.
Today Guan Xin 6d (white) played Timur Sankin 6d. Timur is an experienced player, the second oldest player of the match but a bit rusty. I got the impression he’s busy with life to actively improve his go. His fuseki and endgame are good and he uses a lot of time often playing most of the game in byo-yomi.
So in this game we expected favorable fuseki for Timur playing black. But Russia was unlucky today and fuseki was terrible for black. So much so that around move 50 it started to smell like game over, black had no points. If white took some big points, black would have no areas to catch up. But somehow white made several slow moves while black was raking big points. And it was pretty amazing to see Russia coming back into the game, with real chances to win. But alas, rustiness got Timur, he didn’t fight very well, with especially bad move B5, connect. And Chinese side won again.
Tomorrow we should see Vjacheslav Kajmin 6d (19 yo) play.
