That’s enough. Either you are trolling this forum by repeatedly sending absurd propositions, or your line of thinking is orthogonal to the vast majority of go players. In any case, trying to continue this discussion is a waste of time.
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Correct. I stated a fact: Playing go in a computer is superior to using a physical board.
No discussion is possible when someone says his opinions are facts.
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You are demonstrating your ignorance of the case.
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For someone wish to see the original Chinese version (mostly the same, but with a bit different in tones and wordings, and without the final quotes from Meng Tailing)
I would like to hire that mediator and put him on some international cases.
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Well, that was quite a big fuss about something quite unimportant .
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I mean, there’s pretty major prize money on the line for these tournaments, not to mention how important posturing is for China rn in SE Asia
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There are no official world go championship but some tournaments like this one are considered like a substitute to it.
Your opinion is surely not shared by go enthusiasts who care about a victory due to not respecting the rules instead of a victory by the result of the game.
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I don’t say that there was nothing to care about but that it blew way out of proportion imho. I love go. Otherwise, I would not spent as much time and money on it as I do. However, what I hate about this is that the solution is very pragmatic and that we wouldn’t need to go through all the personal drama and nationalistic tension. Sure, missing the prize money is sad for Ke Jie but this is more of an economic problem that is not addressed by the discourse at all. In my viewpoint, we ralied up a lot of people against each other making the Go world a bit less welcoming, did not adressed the more basic questions and in the end only discussed about some technical detail. For me, this feels like we burned bridges over the question if we should use camel case or underscores in the code.
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For me, go is a universal language that should unite all countries and all generations. Sadly, many people don’t agree with that and consider go as a tool to enhance a country’s supremacy.
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That summarized my position maybe better than I did.
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Well at least it seems to end well for what I can read from the federations, they will rework the rules in some better spirit.
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Let’s just wait for the Nongshin Cup and see how the Korean referees perform in a Chinese city sponsored by a Korean Corporation that has a big market share in China. I got a sense this was just pushed down for the moment with political will quite high up. But the Nongshin Cup is a competition between national teams, so let’s just hope the peace on the surface can hold. The ones that probably have the most pressure would be SJS and PJH.
I watched it live
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China will not send players to join this year’s LG Cup
The Chinese Weiqi Association will not organize a team to participate in this year’s LG Cup World Go Championship.
A relevant person-in-charge of the Chinese Weiqi Association stated on the 23rd that the association will not organize a team to participate in the new edition of the LG Cup World Go Championship, which is expected to open in May. However, this will not affect Chinese players’ participation in other world Go competitions hosted by South Korea.
In the decisive game of the best-of-three final of the 29th LG Cup World Go Championship held in January, Chinese player Ke Jie was penalized by the Korean side for the second time, following the second game, for not placing the captured stones in the lid of the Go bowl. The timing of the referee’s interruption of the game was also controversial. Ke Jie did not accept the ruling and chose to forfeit the game, and the Korean side declared Korean player Byun Sangil the winner. Subsequently, the Chinese Weiqi Association issued a statement, stating that the timing of the referee’s interruption was inappropriate, affecting the normal course of the game, and that the player was unduly interfered with by the referee, making it impossible to continue the game. The statement said: “After appealing to the event organizer, the Korea Baduk Association, and the request for a rematch was unsuccessful, the Chinese Weiqi Association does not accept the result of the third game of this LG Cup.”
This relevant person-in-charge of the Chinese Weiqi Association stated on the 23rd that after the controversial ruling incident in the LG Cup, the association had continued communication with the organizer of the LG Cup. The Chinese side’s position in the statement has remained unchanged, while the event organizer has consistently failed to make a public positive response to the statement and core demands of the Chinese Weiqi Association. After careful consideration, the Chinese Weiqi Association decided not to organize a team to participate in this year’s LG Cup. However, this decision will not affect Chinese players’ participation in other world Weiqi competitions hosted by South Korea this year and in the future.
The person in charge stated that although the impact of the LG Cup controversy has not completely dissipated, he believes it will not disrupt the overall situation of Sino-Korean Go exchanges and the normal holding of world Go competitions. In early February this year, the Korea Baduk Association explicitly abolished the rule of disqualification for two consecutive violations and canceled controversial provisions such as penalties for violations in international competitions hosted by Korea, such as the Nongshim Cup World Go Team Championship and the World’s Strongest Player Championship. The Chinese Weiqi Association expressed its affirmation and welcome to the attitude of the Korea Baduk Association and normally sent players to participate. Since then, world Go competitions such as the Nanyang Cup and the Beihai Xinyi Cup have also been successfully held. The current situation of world professional Go competitions, which have developed since 1988, has not been easy to achieve. Currently, only China, South Korea, and Japan have relatively complete and sound professional systems in the world of Go, and the participation of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese players is crucial to the attractiveness and stability of world professional Go events. The Chinese Weiqi Association hopes to further strengthen communication with relevant parties in the future and better promote the development of the world Go cause in the direction of cooperation and mutual benefit.
The relevant person-in-charge pointed out that the judging controversy of the LG Cup not only exposed the potential risks and troubles caused by the inconsistency of international competition rules but also highlighted the unclear and incomplete problem of the dispute resolution mechanism for international Go events. Due to various reasons, the authority and coordination ability of the International Go Federation as the world Go management organization still need to be improved. The Chinese Weiqi Association hopes to take this controversy as an opportunity to continue to conduct beneficial explorations on the international governance of the Go project with the International Go Federation, the Korea Baduk Association, the Japan Go Association, and other relevant parties to avoid the recurrence of similar disputes.
@discobot quote
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