Halfway through the 2009 WAGC

(May 28, 2009 at 8:54 pm by aguido in World Championships)

…and the Australian representative is in equal seventeenth place out of sixty-six players. David He 7d of New South Wales lost to Jia Cheng Tan 6d of Singapore in the third (morning) round on day two of the thirtieth World Amateur Go Championships, and defeated Matt Cocke 5d of the United Kingdom in the fourth round this afternoon. Meanwhile, Longyang Li 4d of New Zealand lost to Santiago Andres Tabares 3d of Argentina in the third round and defeated Cristiano Garbarini 1d of Italy in the fifth round, to end up in forty-fourth place on the leader board.

Meanwhile, the IGF director from Oceania, Neville Smythe, has popped up among the audience at Shizuoka and engaged in na side game with Shiratori Sumiko 5p. Five handicap stones and 255 moves later, it was white’s game by six points. Review by Michael Redmond 9p and the SGF game record in conveniently viewable form at the Ranka blog entry.