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Go Seigen
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    Keywords: Culture & History, People

Go Seigen (呉清源) (Wu Qingyuan in Chinese), one of the greatest players of the 20th century. Born 19 May 1914.

Author of "A Way of Play for the 21st Century".

His one formal pupil was Rin Kaiho.

Here is Go's record in jubango:

1. 1933-34 - Kitani Minoru

  match abandoned at 3-3

2. 1939-40 - Kitani Minoru

  Go won 6-4

3. 1941-42 - Karigane Junichi

  match abandoned with Go leading 4-1

4. 1942-44 - Fujisawa Kuranosuke at sen, i.e. taking Black

  Fujisawa won 6-4

5. 1946-48 - Hashimoto Utaro

  Go won 6-3 with 1 jigo

6. 1948-49 - Iwamoto Kaoru

  Go won 7-2 with 1 jigo

7. 1949-50

  Go won 8-1 with 1 jigo against a team of players.
  The loss was against Kubouchi Shuchi, the jigo against Sumino Takeshi.

8. 1950-51 - Hashimoto Utaro

  Go won 5-3 with 2 jigo

9. 1951-52 - Fujisawa Kuranosuke

  Go won 7-2 with 1 jigo

10. 1952-53 - Fujisawa Kuranosuke

  match abandoned with Go leading 5-1

11. 1953-54 - Sakata Eio

  match abandoned with Go leading 6-2

12. 1955-56 - Takagawa Kaku

  Go won 8-2

YY: The match between Go Seigen and Honinbo Shusai to celebrate the 60th birthday of Shusai is mentioned in Magic of Go?. However, the column fails to mention the controversy surrounding the match. Each player was allowed for 24 hours of playing time. But, it was Shusai's decision with regards to adjourning the game. Eventually, the game was adjourned 13 times -- critically, at Shusai's turn to play without an exception -- over the period of 3 months! As the players were allowed to go home during the adjournments, many suspect that Shusai adjourned the game at critical moments and studied the current game situation with his pupils. Though he was behind mostly during the game, Shusai made a myoshu at 160 and surged back to eventually win by two points. Later, Maeda Nobuaki, one of Shusai's pupils, hinted that the myoshu was his idea yet denied that he had discussed the move with Shusai. (However, it is well known that Shusai did discuss the game with his pupils during the adjournments.) The game was played without komi. Go Seigen played black.



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