Keeping up with young pros

Good progress from Yin Songtao. Born 2002, 4p in 2019.

Also Pan TIngyu. He was 4p in 2019 as well, but born in 2001.

Wu Yiming (2p) is mentioned in the tesuji section of the April Edition of the European Go Journal, with a game from round 15 of the Chinese Women’s A League.

At 14 years old Wu Yiming is considered one of China’s go prodigies.

She wins that game with the tesuji against Yu Zhiying 6p.

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Wu Yiming was promoted to 3p in January. So was Hu Zihao which baffles me because I can’t find much more than the three wins that Go4Go has in their database. Anyone know their promotion rules?

Still, quite young for 3p so good for them!

Perhaps asking the obvious. But is go4go known to be complete?

No but I checked more complete sources too.

Sina and KifuDepot usually have a few games that Go4Go misses but Sina mutilates the SGF format. They like to put semicolons and extra parenthesis in random spots.

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Thanks.

I guess someone who knows Chinese can check Chinese Go Association’s website for the promotion rules. I’m curious about it too.

I know Chinese, but I don’t know when I’ll have the energy to do so. The formatting of the Chinese Weiqi Association website is absolutely atrocious and trying to find any useful information from it is an exercise in how fast you can get a migraine

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Actually there’s some Gibo/games listed here.

http://sinago.com/gibo/new_gibo.asp?cur_page=3

I think this 吴依铭 is supposed to be Wu Yiming cross referencing with go4go.

I know aesalon already mentioned sinago but to be fair could’ve been a bit more helpful.

Is the question about how Hu Zihao got promoted?

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No, it’s immensely incomplete.

By the way, I thought the Sensei’s page for Wu Yiming was better, but right now all we have is

Professional; 2p in 2020.

which I hit on my “human crawl” of Go4Go last month.

Better than nothing, though.

Wang Shiyi (b. 2000) was promoted to 6p this year.

Looks like people are very interested in Fukuoka Kotaro.

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Good progress from He Yang (b. 2000). He was promoted to 5p this year and qualified pretty recently, in 2016.

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Discovery Cup final stage today. Since no said anything about it beforehand, I slept through it.

Looks like Sumire lost 2 and won 1.

https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/75047/0/0?analysisflag=0

https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/75058/0/0?analysisflag=0

https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/live/room/75073/0/0?analysisflag=1

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The results of the Discovery Cup.

In short the winner is Miura Taro. That’s the guy Oscar played, by the way. He became pro in 2020, I think. And he’s already 97th on Japanese mamumamu list.

I just came up with a brilliant idea. Download all monthly ratings from mamumamu list and plot various graphs. For example, how quickly players rose in ratings/ranks from their first appearance in official matches.

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What’s mamumamu?

Unofficial Japanese rating list 日本棋士国内ランキング

I think it should be better because goratings uses only games with kifu from go4go, while I have the impression that this one includes the results even of the games with only the result available. So it’s a super secret rating list for true aficionados.

And of course


All praise Glicko

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Wang Xinghao beat Tu Xiaoyu in the Globis Cup U20.

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If you want to keep up with young pros, this cup is might be of interest ワイズアカデミー. I thought it’s like Wise Academy, but apparently it stands for Y’s Academy. Miracles of transliteration. They have a website but it’s a bit cumbersome, so Nihon Kiin site is better 第3回 ワイズアカデミー杯 | 棋戦 | 囲碁の日本棋院

They have five pros and five amateurs. Note that in the pro vs ama games amateur gets 2 handicap stones and black wins if jigo. Pros are apparently quite new, all of this year. Jo Bunen even has only one game in the Nihon Kiin summary table.

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Speaking of that game with the tesuji

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