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From:
"MY Choy"
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Sent:
Friday, February 23, 2001 3:17 PM
Subject:
Chinese Weiqi League Muk
Jan-Sok 6D the first ever foreign player has officially signed with
Chongqing Construction
Motorcycles. Although the financial terms are not disclosed, the club
manager has said that Muk's salary is in the range of the other star
players on the team, Liu Jing 8D and Zhou Heyang 8D, which means, according
to some calculation it's about 10,000 yuans(~1,200 US$) per week, plus
bonus on a per win basis.
For example, Liu Jing and Zhou Heyang reportedly earned about 200,000
yuans from the Weiqi League matches last season and for winning the
league championship. It's surprise to know that Muk can speak pretty
good Mandarin and Cantonese. He said he learned it by watching Hong
Kong TV's and movies and by playing on Qing-Feng Weiqi server.
Muk's addition will help fill in a void left by Yu Bin 9D, one of last
year's pivotal contributors for Chongqing's championship drive. Yu Bin
will re-join his hometown team of Zhejiang, which is re-forming for
the B-League next season. Zhejiang was a traditional powerhouse rivaling
the formidable Shanghai team in the annual national team championships,
before the formation of this Weiqi league. But due to internal turmoil
and subsequent withdrawal of corporate financial backing, Zhejiang team
was dissolved before the start of the inaugural Weiqi Leauge seaon.
Andwe're glad to see it come back and let's hope it will make it back
into the A-League in no time. It's unknown whether the great legendary
Ma Xiaochun 9D, currently the coach of China Telecom club in A-League,
will join force with Yu Bin to bring back the old glory days to Zhejiang.
With the hastily drafting of the "Guidelines for Overseas Players",
note it's "overseas" not "foreign", more non-CWQA
players are expected to sign on with clubs for next season. Most notably
is Rui Naiwei 9D, Kim Sing-Jun 7D another Korean player who's processing
the paperworks to join the leauge as we speak, and Zhou Junxun the top
China-trained player from Taiwan.
Rui will sign with Shanghai Mobile Communications. Her salary will be
in the same range with Chang Hao 9D and Shao Weigang 9D.
Zhou Junxun and Kim will join with Yang Shiyang 8D, another export from
the glory old days of Zhejiang era, to form the Hong Kong club to play
in the B-League next season. So looks like the B-League will have at least
2 teams, Zhejiang and Hong Kong, that are powerful enough to even play
in the A-League.
Regards,
MY Choy
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From:
"MY Choy"
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 1:59 PM
Subject:
Influx of Korean Association players into Chinese WQ League
Hi,
Since the precedent of Muk Jan-Sok, there is now a wave of players from
Korean WeiQi Association who are applying to join the Chinese WeiQi
League:
Muk Jan-Sok 6d to Chongqing Construction Motorcycles (A-league)
Rui Naiwei 9d to Shanghai Mobile Telecoms (A-league)
Jiang Zhujiu 9d to Chengdu Sunny Boys (A-league)
Park 2d to Guizhou Satellite TVs (A-league)
Seo Bong-Joo 9d, Kim Wing-Sam 4d to Shenzhen 999 (B-league)
Kim Sing-June 7d to Hong Kong Good Sounds (B-league)
Regards,
-MY Choy
Week 10
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From: "MY Choy"
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 2:48 PM
Subject:
Exciting Chinese Weiqi B-League to start in April
Because of the format
of Chinese Weiqi B-League is all teams gather in one place for 2 weeks
to play 7-8 games, it is suitable for some world-class players with
busy year-round schedules, so they actually preferred the B-League over
the A-League, and they will earn good money for relatively quick (albeit
intensive) work. For example ING cup champion Seo Fong-Joo 9d of Korean
reportedly will earn 300,000 yuans for 2 weeks work. His club, Shenzhen,
this year got a big corporate sponsor Hyatt.
Getting into A-League means a lot of free publicity and exposure for
the corporate sponsors because during the season CCTV will have a weekly
show about the league's matches. CCTV reaches 1 billion audience.
Most exciting of all is Zhejiang will finally put together a "dream
team" this year to try to qualify promotion to A-League. The great
legendary Ma Xiaochun 9d pitched in 500,000 yuans at the last minute
to help the team's operating budget. Now Zhejiang team will feature
Ma Xiaochun 9d and Yu Bin 9d the only 2 ever world champions of China.
4 teams in the B-League this year look very strong to fight for the
2 promotion places:
Zhejiang: Ma Xiaochun 9d, Yu Bin 9d, Chen Linxin 9d, Zhu Songli 5d
Beijing (a second club, not the same club that's already in the A-League):
Liu Xiaoguang 9d, Zhang Xuan 8d, Wang Qun 8d, Fang Jie 7d
Hong Kong New Worlds: Yang Shihai 8d (resides in HK now, currently the
third best Zhejiang-origin player, too bad he's not re-joining his home
team, or it will truely be "dream team"), Yang Hui 8d, Zhou
Junxun 9d (currently the top player from Chinese Taiwan), Kim Sing-June
7d (Korean top-20)
Shenzhen Hyatt Ginseng: Liang Weitang 9d (formerly the top player of
A-League's Guangzhou 999 club), Fang Tianfeng 8d, Seo Fong-Joo 9d (former
ING cup champion, top-10 in Korea), Kim Wing-Sam 5d (Korean top-30)
-MY Choy
Week 13
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 5:04 PM
Liao Xingwen, the
prodigy who visited MSO last year, has justed turned seven. He continues
to improve but slowing down. He is now playing his teacher, Wang Hongju
7-dan, on three stones, but finding it very difficult.
His go mother, Liu Yajie 2-dan, says it is because he is too young to
handle the abstract concepts.
There are several interesting things to discuss about all that most
of all: what higher abstract concepts - didn't know there > were
any! But it would also be good to hear from anyone knowledgeable about
child education to know what sort of abstract blocks a (very bright)
seven-year-old faces and when he might expect to overcome them.
To put Xingwen's achievements in some sort of perspective, there are
many other Chinese prodigies. One is Peng Quan, who at 15 has just made
the quarter finals of the Mingren (see the MSO site), so Xingwen needs
to improve about 4 stones in 8 years to match that.
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