dubois@lll-crg.UUCP (Paul Dubois) (09/05/85)
In article <385@persci.UUCP> hwc@persci.UUCP (Hon Chan) writes: >I heard there were several matches between the Chinese and Koren professional >go players held in California back in Match or April. Did anyone know the >results ? Nieh 9-Dan of China played the Korean champion Cho (not the same as the Korean player Cho Chi Kun who is a champion in Japan but not in Korea !) at the S.F. Go Club. The match was covered widely in the local press. Nieh won a close game as I recall. I know they also played in L.A. but don't know the result for sure. Another interesting international series now going on is a series between two teams of professionals, one from Japan and the other from China. The teams are ranked in order and the match started with the "bottom board" members of each team competing. The winner plays the next higher member of the opposing team while the loser is knocked out. The team that eliminates the other first is the winner. The Chinese team is anchored by Nieh while the Japanese team is captained by Fujisawa Shuko. The match caused a sensation this spring when the Chinese #2 man beat five of the Japanese in a row until finally halted by Kobayashi. I know the characters for the Chinese man's name but not the pronouciation; it is extremely difficult to talk about Asian Go players in ASCII, ne ? The series is covered in IGO CLUB, which is available by subscription from the Nihon Kiin. It costs 12000 Yen a year now. Write to them at 7-2 Go Ban Cho, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan. They have an overseas Dept. that can read your letter in English and will accept your personal check in dollars on an American bank. I just divide the exchange rate and round up generously. Issues arrive by sea mail a month or so after publication. The other magazine they have is Kido, which is somewhat more intellectual and difficult in Go level (for Dan holders). If you don't read Japanese you can still get quite a lot out of the games -- the notations for who won, etc. just take a little practice to learn. IGO club seems to have a supplement or two every month...these are little books like next move problems that you can read in the bus, etc.