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Yi Ch'ang-ho
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Yi Ch'ang-ho won the 5th LG Cup by beating Yi Se-tol 3-2 in the final game. HolIgor: Yi Ch'ang-ho is currently number one player in the world according to hearsay and my personal rating. So, why cannot I be his fan? Let us see why does he win his 75% of games against the top opponents. I have created a folder called StoneBuddha where I put sgf file of his games and then look through them. It is widely believed that Yi has a superior endgame technique and that he starts to play endgame moves faster in the middle game than his opponents. But a dozen games or so that I looked through show some other interesting aspects. It seems that he likes to play tenuki even more than the other guy. Of course, this is based on very good reading of the position, but the impression is that he plays contrary to the proverb. He plays big moves rather than urgent moves. Well, it turns out that he had read it out and found that the "urgent" move was not so urgent. It seems also that he is fond of approach ko. Quite often rather large groups are at stake because he prefered a big move to a safe move earlier. This is a copy of the living page "Yi Ch'ang-ho" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |