game records

The corrected and rearranged game record collection has been made available here by xed_over. Thanks! The originally posted collection can still be found there.

Game records were input by the players, sometimes the winner, sometimes the loser, after being chased by the organizers so that they did not forget.

final results

The results :

U12

Na Hyun (KR) won to Lou Yun Xiao (CN)
Kousuke Takeuchi (JP) won to Calvin Sun (US)

U18

Peng Li Yao (CN) won to Kang Yutaek (KR)
Rei Terama (JP) won to Curtis Tang (US)

the semifinals

The hotel broadband has become narrowband, tending to 0. So it's getting difficult to post. Anyway. The Americans have resigned early this morning. Peng this time looked concentrated and aggressive, and Curtis did not last one hour. It was like he was saying "hey boy, you won't be so lucky this time". Anyway, he has done a great tournament, and can be happy to say he has beaten a pro in an even competition game. Calvin tried a bit harder, but Na was merciless. Both Japanese fell in semifinals too, so the finals are the same as last year, a double China-Korea match. Last year it was a 1-1 for each country, let's see today.

U12 semifinals :

Calvin Sun（US) - Na Hyun (KR) : 0 - 1
Lou Yun Xiao - Kousuke Takeuchi (JP) : 1 - 0

U18 semifinals :

Peng Li Yao (CN) - Curtis Tang (US) : 1 - 0
Kang Yutaek - Rei Terayama (JP) : 1 - 0

final qualifyer standings

U12

Pl. Name  Str   1    2    3    4    5   Pt  SODOS SOS  SOSOS
 1 kr     5d   6+   5+   2+   3+   4+  5     14   14     64
 2 cn     5d   8+   3+   1-   5+   6+  4      7   12     67
 3 jp     6d   4+   2-   5+   1-   7+  3      6   15     60
 4 us     4d   3-   8+   6+   7+   1-  3      3   11     64
 5 tw     5d   7+   1-   3-   2-   8+  2      1   13     63
 6 pl     1k   1-   7+   4-   8+   2-  2      1   13     59
 7 ru     3k   5-   6-   8+   4-   3-  1      0   10     64
 8 sg     1k   2-   4-   7-   6-   5-  0      0   12     59

U18

Pl. Name Str   1    2    3    4    5   Pt  SODOS SOS  SOSOS
 1 cn    7d   5+   4-   8+   6+   2+  4     11   15     65
 2 kr    5d   9+   8+   7+   3+   1-  4     10   14     69
 3 jp    7d  11+   7+   4+   2-   6+  4      9   13     68
 4 us    5d  12+   1+   3-   8+   7+  4      8   12     71
 5 ca    5d   1-  12+   6-  11+  10+  3      3    9     61
 6 sg    5d   8-   9+   5+   1-   3-  2      5   15     62
 7 tw    6d  10+   3-   2-   9+   4-  2      4   16     57
 8 ru    4d   6+   2-   1-   4-  11+  2      3   15     67
 9 hu    4d   2-   6-  10+   7-  12+  2      2   10     65
10 th    4d   7-  11+   9-  12+   5-  2      1    8     58
11 cz    3d   3-  10-  12+   5-   8-  1      0   11     57
12 ua    3d   4-   5-  11-  10-   9-  0      0   12     50

round 5 : final 4 is ready

No surprises. China, Korea, Japan and USA qualified in both categories. I finally got to know what the Ing system tie breakers are : SODOS, SOS, SOSODOS, SOSOS. It is to be noted that Curtis would have qualified even if he had lost to China, and even if the first tie breaker was SOS. In U18, China won to Korea by ... 1 point

U12 (junior)

kr - us : 1-0
pl - cn : 0-1
ru - jp : 0-1
tw - sg : 1-0

U18 (senior)

cn - kr : 1-0
jp - sg : 1-0
us - tw : 1-0
ca - th : 1-0
ua - hu : 0-1
cz - ru : 0-1

The players appreciate the support and cheering from the commenters. It was not difficult to find out who is Fido.

round 4

Round 4 is over. It has featured several derbies, at least from the political / historical point of view. Both categories have had a Korea vs Japan and a USA vs Russia. The misteries of the poker deck are way beyond human understanding. Anyway, both derbies have been won by Korea and the USA. This is almost completely defining the double final 4.

Korea, USA and China can be said to be qualified in both categories. If the junior Japanese player wins the 5th and last round he should make it too, since he has a high SOS (lost to China / Korea). But perhaps Mateusz from Poland can qualify since this morning he has defeated Singapore. He'd need to win, and get some unlikely losses by CN and KR to improve his SOS. In U18 things are a bit tougher. Pairings (which are fixed, do not depend on results) have not been published yet, but with 3 wins there are Japan, China and USA, and with 2 wins there are Canada, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore (last 2 with a low SOS). Unless strange results happen, it will be difficult for the current top 4 not to pass. Curtis from USA is the one with the lowest SOS.

U12 (junior)

jp - kr : 0-1
cn - tw : 1-0
us - ru : 1-0
sg - pl : 0-1

U18 (senior)

jp - kr : 0 - 1
sg - cn : 0 - 1
ru - us : 0 - 1
hu - tw : 0 - 1
cz - ca : 0 - 1
ua - th : 0 - 1

I am using Christoph Gerlach's MacMahon software to provide the standings (running under linux, with the 'wine' emulator), but it may be that the ties are not decided by SOS and SOSOS. The tournament system is defined by Ing rules and has subsidiary columns named SJH, BJH, SFH and BFH.

Oh, btw, today we got to know that the Chinese senior player is not 2 dan amateur, as written in the brochure, but 2 dan professional, and a member of the Chinese national team. Indeed, his style and attitude playing and commenting is not that of a mere amateur 2 dan.

PS : I won't make any more mistakes with the results. I've discovered that Gerlach's software includes a pairing export feature that I had not noticed. I am editing the exporting files with the vim editor.

PS #2 : Sorry that the standings are overlapping the posts frame making it difficult to read clearly. If some blogger.com user can give me hints on how to arrange it, I will appreciate it. Also on how to view the blog traffic.

round 3

Somehow bad news for Curtis fans. He could not win against Terayama (JP), who is unbeaten in U18, as well as Kang (KR). This year the japanese team seems to be performing much better than last year. Anyhow, Curtis should not have problems to reach the finals.

In U18 we could also see another victory of a western player against an Eastern Asian. This time by Rita (HU). The game had a funny ending, since the white bowl had 6 less stones, and when filling the board, both players had finished their set of stones. However, a quick refill of the bowls could easily determine the winner.

And in U12 there was the first victory of a western, by Alexander Matushkin (RU). In U12 Na Hyun, last year finalist is the only unbeaten player, having beaten Lou (CN). Again it seemed the Chinese player had a hard time concentrating, but it is somehow understandable due to his young age.


U12 (junior)

kr - cn : 1 - 0
pl - us : 0 - 1
ru - sg : 1 - 0
tw - jp : 0 - 1

U18 (senior)

cn - ru : 1 - 0
ca - sg : 0 - 1
ua - cz : 0 - 1
us - jp : 0 - 1
tw - kr : 0 - 1
th - hu : 0 - 1

Check round #3 standings on the left. They were mistaken in round 2, where japan did not lose.