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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 9:41 AM

Father or his son;
(Kisei-sen)
Hane Yasumasa(father) and his son, Hane Naoki, will fight at 4th group final of 26th Kisei 3rd preliminary.

Yasumasa got 38th Oza title, Okan(4-times) and the member of Kisei tournament(6),Meijin league(3) and Honinbo league(2).

His son Naoki already entered in Meijin and Honinbo league, so if he wins, then he gets the seat of all Major League,


All 2-loses or more;
(Meijin league)
5th round has finished. And the resalt are;
Cho Chikun 2-2 O Meien 3-2
O Rissei 2-2 Hane Naoki 2-3
Ryu Shikun 2-3 Kato Masao 2-2
Rin Kaiho 3-2 Cho Sonjin 2-2
Komatsu Hideki2-2


Fresh fighting is soon;
(Honinbo title matches)
New Honinbo O Meien and youngest challenger Cho U will fight middle of May.


All even;
(Judan title matches)
Kobayashi Koichi Judan and the challenger O Rissei will fight the final round on next week.

In detail, pls visit

http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/momoyama/

Go Scene and Go News

-tada-

Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 5:09 AM

Hi!

Go news from Japan;

Rin Kaiho(age 58) gained the lead at Meijin league by 4-2. Next is Cho Chikun(3-2).
Rin has been admired with keeping the seat for 36 years(Meijin 8-times, Challenger 7-times).

The first confrontation between father and his son was played at 4th group final of 26th Kisei-sen 3rd preliminary on 03 May.
Hane Naoki got the major 3-seats(Kisei-sen, Meijin-sen and Honinbo-sen league).

In detail progress, visit;
http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/momoyama/
Click Go Scene, Go News

-tada-

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Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 9:03 AM

Refreshing wind has risen.

Japanese Go News;
Female tournaments have started.
Honinbo, Meijin, Kakusei, Strongest...

Korean Go News;
Tournament tables were updated.
BC Card Cup, KBS Cup, Fresh Best 10, Female Meijin,
Baduk TV(New stars)...

Visit
http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/momoyama/
Go Scene and Go News

-tada-

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Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 11:36 PM

Hello...
It gets interesting....
Changho lost 2 games, but he got back to Sedol and now 2:2

He knew this was coming...^^ remember Changho mentioned Sedol as his possible archenemy(?) about 5 years ago.

The follwoing site has a live broadcast on internet in English,

http://www.cyberkiwon.com/english/index.html

You also can check out the previous games....hit the left button at the bottom.
I am afraid it is in Korean....
If anybody asks, I can translate it

Game1

http://www.wegobaduk.com/news/news_view.asp?seq=401&
gubun=0

Game2

http://www.wegobaduk.com/news/news_view.asp?seq=407&
gubun=0

Game3

http://www.wegobaduk.com/news/news_view.asp?seq=571&
gubun=0

Game4

http://www.wegobaduk.com/news/news_view.asp?seq=593&
gubun=0

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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 9:42 AM

O Meien (black) defeats Cho U (7p) by half a point in the second game of the Honinbo title match to tie the score 1-1. In spite of gaining some points in the endgame Cho could not best O. The game can be found at the mainichi news webpage:

http://www.mainichi.co.jp/life/hobby/igo01/02/index.html

Pieter

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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:00 AM

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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 10:29 AM

Playing black challenger Cho U (21) had two hours left when he beat Honinbo O Meien (39) by the comfortable margin of 2.5 points.

Cho is now leading the best of seven match by 2-1. According to the game commentary by Takemiya "Cosmic Go" Masaki, O Meien was too eager to go after some weak looking black stones in the opening.
Instead of immediately pressing down on the unsettled black stones a more indirect approach would have been better.

Taking Cho's fast play and youth into account he seems to have the better cards although the Honinbo match is, of course, far from over.
Cho's mentor, Rin Kaiho, must be very proud indeed to see his Taiwan born pupil having the chance of becoming the youngest Honinbo ever.
Ishida Yoshio is currently holding that record. Ishida was 22 years old when he took over the Honinbo title from * guess who *.... Rin Kaiho!

Pieter

PS Congratulations Catalin!!!

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Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 6:14 AM

Cho U won the 5th game of the Mainichi Newspaper sponsored 56th Honinbo title by a convincing 1.5 points.
Very tight moves followed by an unbelievable flexibility proved the way to best title holder O meien who, to be sure, played a very good game, too.

http://www.mainichi.co.jp/life/hobby/igo01/05/index.html

Pieter

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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 8:54 AM

Korea Wangwi league;

After Cho Hunhyun(9 dan) vs. Seo Bongsoo(9 dan), Lee Sedol won by W+R against Cho Hunhyun at 35th Wangwi league on 02 July.

As a result, 5-2; Cho Hunhyun, An Yoonkil and Lee Sedol

By the lottery, An vs. Lee will play the 1st round of challenger play-off on 04 July.

Visit; http://www.kyoto.zaq.ne.jp/momoyama/

Go Scene & Go News

Goodnight,
-tada-

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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 9:43 PM

Cho U (black) and O Meien (title holder) are going at it in the final game of the Honinbo title match.
The game is played over 2 days (18-19) and regular live updates can be found at:

http://www.mainichi.co.jp/life/hobby/igo01/07/index.html

Cho U played his favorite opening with black, resembling Shusaku's, but not quite. Cho has the chance of becoming the youngest Honinbo ever.

From the first game on all pro commentators did without failing mention that instead of the old "go for walks and hang around" between playing periods O but especially Cho play a lot of Ping-Pong.
Another hot topic was that the players preferred toast and scrambled eggs instead of rice, fish and miso soup for break fast. (which is, of course, totally boring information but Takemiya made it more interesting by adding that during games between the "super" Honinbo Takagawa and Sakata both players often declined any food in the morning, being too wound up (or stressed out) to enjoy breakfast.)

Pieter

Urmarea

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Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 5:09 AM

O Meien keeps the Honinbo title for another year.

Challenger Cho U (black) seemed to have the better cards in a game-deciding ko-fight but the ko threats he played threatening to catch another white group lost so many points that the value of the original ko was reduced enormously and O Meien could afford to just let go, giving him a certain lead. Cho U resigned 18:59 Japanese time ending the youngest Honinbo ever dream.

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Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 6:30 AM

There seems to be no obvious forum for go news beyond who-won headlines now that the MSO site has gone to sleep, so I'll mention that there is a new richest-ever tournament in Korea, the KT Cup (Korea Telecoms). It has displaced the LG Refined Oils Cup (which is different from the international LG Cup) as top prize - 15 million won instead of 10 million. It is a 64-player knockout leading to a 3-game final.

This seems to confirm that the Korean go world has more than recovered from the financial wobbles of a few years ago.

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