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Go back 14th issue 1. Sad news from Korea. The letter of Igor Grishin (from the "Baduk Sege" magazine) 2. Quiz "The world of Chinese Go", results and answers 3. The most exciting game of the week (link) Sad news from Korea Cho Namcheol, 9-dan ( http://senseis.xmp.net/?ChoNamCheol ) passed away on July,2 at the age of 83. He was the founder of Korean Baduk Association. Here is the letter, which was written by Igor Grishin, the president of Go Federation (Russia). This letter will be published in the next issue of the Korean "Baduk Sege" magazine Cho Namcheol-senseinim is famous in Russia, because of A.Dinerchtein, who told us a lot about the history of development of Korean Baduk. Also he translated us some parts from Cho Namcheol's book "Se pan nun mul". From this book we learned about the creation of Hankuk Kiwon(Korean Baduk Assosiation), about first tournaments, matches, which were held with the kind support of Lee Synman, former Korean president, about the first Baduk books in Korean language and many other things. We are using this experience for Baduk development in our country. The situation in Russia is similar with Korean one 30-40 years ago. Nowadays we are opening new Baduk clubs, making Baduk books (the print run from 100-200 copies in the past to 5000 copies). We are opening new tournaments and sending our masters for learning Baduk to Asian countries. We are sure, that if each European country have the same Baduk organizers as Cho Namcheol-senseinim, the game of Baduk can easily become more popular than chess or other board games and we can easily get millions of new members. We would like to thank Cho Namcheol-senseinim for his useful experience, which was gathered together in his Baduk book "Se pan nun mul", for his kind support of our master A.Dinerchtein. We would like to thank him for beautiful games of his colleagues and students (we are enjoining them a lot) and for creating the Korean Style of Baduk. We hope, that we can issue his book "Se pan nun mul" in Russian in future. From the person of Go Federation and all Baduk fans in Russia we express deep condolences by all native and close one of the deceased. Few days ago we were sitting in one of our Baduk clubs in the center of Moscow together with Master Lim Choonsung (World Kym Do Association Vice President, 8th Black Belt in Kym Do). We were talking about the role of Cho Namcheol-senseinim in modern baduk. Suddenly we heard the sound of bells from one of Russian churches not far from our club. Mr. Lim told us: "The sky is welcoming Master Cho!" The bells were ringing during 15 minutes and we were sitting in silence. Good bye Master Cho! Good bye and always stay in our hearts! Igor Grishin, the president of Go Federation (Russia) Moscow, July 8, 2006 Some photos from Cho NamcheolÒs funeral: http://www.youchanghyuk.com/news/viewpage.asp?pagec=&seq=7436&gubun=all http://www.baduk.or.kr/news/homenews_view.asp?gul_no=508400&gdiv=1&frpg=MN ************************************************************************************************ The quiz, which was compiled by Mace Lee, was much easier than mine (The World of Korean Baduk). We have 5 participants, who answered all 8 questions correctly. The first one was Peter Chen, powerofgote@gmail.com. He will get a 6 months Go4Go subscription ( commentary section at http://www.go4go.net/v2/modules/alex/ ) The other winners (2-13 places) will get a chance to take part in simultaneous game on KGS with Alexander Dinerchtein (ÓbreakfastÔ) which will take place on Saturday, July, 15 , 2 PM GMT (18.00 Moscow time) in English Game Room 2-5 places: Steve Kroon 8 from 8 Martin 8 from 8 Bharat Advani 8 from 8 Chris Welsh 8 from 8 6-13 places: Mathijs Claassen 7 from 8 Calvin Clark 7 from 8 Pertti 7 from 8 Blake Hyde 7 from 8 Lucretiu Calota 7 from 8 Vaso 7 from 8 Pavel Husakouski 7 from 8 Yo mismo 7 from 8 Dear winners, if you wish to take part in simultaneous, please send us your KGS ID and handicap you prefer to qp@omen.ru Answers: c,a,c,e,b,b,d,b (1) Who is the No.1 Chinese player according to the most recent official Chinese ranking list? (a) Chang Hao (b) Ma Xiaochun (c) Gu Li (d) Zhou Heyang (e) Chen Yaoye The correct answer is ÑcÒ. Gu Li has been the No. 1 for quite a long time and won most of the domestic titles in China. (2) Among these famous Chinese players who has never won a major international title? (a) Nie Weiping (b) Chang Hao (c) Yu Bin (d) Luo Xihe (e) Ma Xiaochun The correct answer is ÑaÒ. Although Nie is considered a hero after single-handedly defeat Japan in the first few terms of China-Japan SuperGo tournament, he has never won a major international title, he has been runner-ups for three times. (3) Who stopped Nie Weiping's winning streak in the famous China-Japan SuperGo series back in 1980Òs? (a) Yoda Norimoto (b) Kobayashi Satoru (c) Hane Yasumasa (d) Yamashiro Hiroshi (e) Kato Masao The correct answer is ÑcÒ. Hane Yasumasa, the father of Hane Naoki, broke NieÒs 11-game winning streak during the 4th China-Japan SuperGo. Nie proved a human being not a God, as he made a quite simple mistake to lose that game. The other players, especially Yoda and Yamashiro, did pretty well in this tournament too. (4) In legend, the game of Weiqi (Go) is said to be invented by an ancient Chinese emperor, who used it toÅÅ (a) entertain (b) study war strategies (c) bet with his generals (d) measure lands (e) enlighten his son The correct answer is ÑeÒ. The emperor, whose name is ÑShunÒ, was said to have a son who was not quite intelligent so the emperor tried to teach his using Go. Another famous legendary story is that ÑShunÒ passed his kingdom to ÑYuÒ (another very respectable emperor) instead of his son. (5) Chinese tournaments often share the same names as Japanese tournaments but are traditionally spelled in a different way when translated into English. Which of the following Chinese tournament does not have a Japanese counterpart? (a) Qisheng (b) Qiwang (c) Xinrenwang (d) Mingren (e) Tianyuan The correct answer is ÑbÒ. The other tournaments all have a counterpart in Japan. Qisheng=Kisei; Xinrenwang=Shinjin O; Mingren=Meijin; Tianyuan=Tengen. (6) Chinese rule is slightly different from the widely used Japanese rule and its variants. Which of the following is NOT part of Chinese rule? (a) Eyes in seki count as territory. (b) Group-suicidal moves are allowed to create ko threats. (c) Group with ÑBent four in the cornerÒ is not considered unconditionally dead. (d) Players with sufficient ko threats may be able to leave a half-point ko and grab dame (neutral) points first to win a losing game. (e) Judges may decide that a game with 3-ko or 4-ko to be a draw or a replay game can be ordered. The correct answer is ÑbÒ. Suicidal moves are only allowed in Ing rule. The creator of Ing rule argued that being able to suicide can introduce more variations into the game when there is a ko fight. (7) Why ancient Chinese players seldom invaded 3-3 in their games? (a) Ancient Chinese Go games are fight-oriented and players do not care about corner territory. (b) Invading 3-3 and its related josekis are not well studied until modern times. (c) Ancient Chinese rule requires 4 stones to be placed in a cross-hoshi way before the game starts, which makes it technically difficult to invade 3-3. (d) Ancient Chinese rule charges a group tax by deducting 2 points from each living group. Player invading 3-3 is more likely to have multiple small groups and thus is taxed heavily. (e) Invading 3-3 is forbidden in the ancient Chinese rule. The correct answer is ÑdÒ. The ancient Chinese rule does have a group tax so it is better to build large moyo than having many smaller groups. (8) The Chinese professional system was introduced back in 1982. The Rating of the first batch of Chinese pro players did not start from shodan. They were instead assigned a temporary rank. From which rank did the famous player Yu Bin start with? (a) 2-dan (b) 3-dan (c) 4-dan (d) 5-dan (e) 6-dan The correct answer is ÑbÒ. A temporary initial rank may appear to be adhoc but it proved to be quite reasonable. In fact, the Chinese rank promotion tournament is probably the toughest among major Go countries. No more than two dozens players were promoted to 9-dan in the past two decades. This is in sharp comparison to the Japanese system, which produced more than 100 9-dans, many of which are seldom heard by the Go fans. ********************************************************************************* The most exciting game of the week: http://www.go4go.net/v2/modules/collection/sgfview.php?id=11854 8th Chinese City League A, round 8 2006-07-01: Gu Li 9p (Black) vs. Xie He 6p (White) B+R Large capturing race, won by Gu Li. ********************************************************************************* Enjoy the newsletter! The IGN "Goama" editor's team You are welcome to republish any text material from the IGN ÓGoamaÔ without commercial purposes: please note the source and put the link to http://gogame.info/. To obtain republishing rights for commented game records, please contact: A.Dinerchtein, editor-in-chief, e-mail: qp@omen.ru Go back |
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