Guess i should write something about the weiqi Christmas Cup.

In the beginning we plan to have a few teams, poly teams, jc team, sec team, uni team and youth connection team.

In the end none of them team was form cause not enough ppl in some teams so james decided to rojak everyone up and random the players into 4 teams.

I got into alvin group with yuqi, guan zhong from sp, ben from raffles, wenbin from np. Out of 3 rounds i won 3 rounds not because i super strong but i somehow din encounter strong players like jc etc...

After everything there is buffet again (swa favourite hobby) plus a christmas exchange. Well, jc got my beloved choc donut from action city, muhahahahaha

This event also reflects how badly weiqi is being spread in the youth generation. Getting ppl to form up teams is already a problem.

Ok, today went to bishan swa to do some training. It really require great discipline to seat there to replay pro games, do questions cause u will get tempted to use the com. I failed alot of times (train the most 1 to 2 hours)and i am determine to train today(at least 5hours) so i used a method today. I load a movie on the net which require super long buffering time and mean time i go do my training. I tell myself that i train hard now then later i can treat myself to a nice movie:) (i am so easy to bluff). Well, it somehow work for me, hahaha. After the whole thing i feel really tired but i like the feeling of my brain fill with info.

Watched saw 5... hmmm... gross as usual but ending not nice. the twist at the end is so expected. BOOO....

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Spend my christmas with my poly friends in orchard on food food n food, haha.

Christmas eve was spend in ghost camp, well a very unique experience.....

Before i enter army i thought the 2 years will be a waste of time. But the vocation n unit i am posted to now allow me to spend time on go. I should really make full use of these time. But is so hard cause every morning when i start reading i will tend to fall asleep.... ok... i will try putting medical oil in my eyes. muhahahaha

Everything is there for a reason.

Looking forward to this sat christmas cup. Hope the pros are joining in the fun:)

U guys just pray hard u dun get my present during the exchange, is TERRIBLE!

Since i am quite free in camp i decided to check on something which i am quite interested in....



THE CASH PRIZE OF Japan PROFESSIONAL GO TITLE MATCH.



All the exchange rate is done in yahoo currency converter



Japan (7 main titles)



棋圣战 (KISEI) 42000000 yen = S$ 677,140



名人战 (MEIJIN) 37000000 yen = S$ 596,528



本因坊战 (HONINBO) 32000000 yen = S$ 515,916



十段战 (JUDAN) 15000000 yen = S$ 241,835



天元战 (TENGEN) 14000000 yen = S$ 225,713



王座战 (OZA) 10200000 yen = S$ 162,683



碁聖战 (GOSEI) 7770000 yen = S$ 125,270




WAHHHHHHHHHH..... imagine Cho U (张栩）who is now holding the title of gosei, oza, tengen and meijin.... omg.... he is so damm rich now.....

I realise that i FORGET TO TAKE THE BUFFET PICTURES!!!!!!

I must be a hungry ghost yesterday....

So the results are as..

Group A
1st chuanling (who completed the biggest coverup of SWA, muhahahahah, just joking lar)
2nd minyi
3rd A lady from sp

The rest i forget the names... will find out....

Group B i only know shuwei got first.

So after the buffet yesterday, james, alvin, book, titus and me went to watch IP man (pronounce as ip mun). IS SO DAMMMM NICE!!!! I dunno y eight days or i weekly gave only 2 stars. Is a must watch show!!!!

Yup, today is the once a year national LADIES weiqi competition. Banner not done by me so dun blame me for the error, haha..

Thanks to xing wei (left) and the construction uncle wearing a cap (zhi xiong) on the left for hanging up our banner.

These are the group A (open category) ppl...as usual, is not much ppl. Yurika our potential champion did not join, alice our all time favourite female player surprisingly did not join, xueyi did not join and kay did not join.

Group B(sec 1 n 2) has lesser ppl. This is sad cause it really tell us how bad we have been promoting this game in sec sch.

hahaha....shuwei look like a frog here... wonder is that one of her stradegy to distract her opponent?

minyi vs huanqi... both looking at the tian yuan area trying to surround huge MOYO....

wah!!!!! both player trying to achieve the TAO, ying yang logo.....

The showdown between the 2 strong female players... Minyi vs karen...

minyi falling asleep........................

karen looking so robotic..... must be one of the trick her psychology degree has been teachingg her....

Ok...tmr got 3 more round plus buffet!!!!!! more food pic tmr..

Today was a outing day with my parents. Went vivo and walk around the whole day....

tired day...

ok.. tmr have to go back camp

I suddenly remember something tat disturbed me alot during yesterday jurong green competition. There is this guy who seat beside me who keep chewing his finger nail throughout the whole game. And the thing is he use the same hand which he just bite to hold the seeds. Basic hygine my friend.........

Today is jurong green weiqi fast game and is my first time joining cause i have been helping out as organizer in the previous 2 years.

Summary of today's game:

Game 1: shan huanqi
well, i was in bishan yesterday so i know she will be my first opponent for today. Was abit stress on this match not because i scare lost to young girl but i was once her teacher and whenever she see me now she still call me chen lao shi and imagine i lose to her, muhahaha... But at the same time i am really curious how much she improve since philip say she is one of the future female star and she is in the elite weiqi class for kids. Our game was not as intense as i expected, everything was according to my playing style, grab land, no fighting yar world peace... haha. She din really put up a fierce fight compare to my previous encounter with jie hui.

Game 2: Mr Lee from korea
I wasnt expecting him cause i din think he would win jin xin lai(mr lee round 1 opponent) so is kind of surprise for me. This game is easy in the beginning cause alot of his move are huan (slow), hahaha i cant believe that i am saying other ppl's move are slow when i am so famous for my huan moves. Due to all the huan moves make by my opponent i became quite slack and thought is a sure win but when it come to yose, a bunch of my seed got eaten and it became a sure lose match for me. But somehow due to his greediness i manage to capture more bunch of it stones making this my tyco number 1 game. (i have 3 tyco match in this com)

Game 3: xie tang
well..... no comment, muhahahahahahaha Learn alot through the review but i am just too too sensitive to his mocking tone during review. well, is xt we r talking here so i will try to get used to it.

Game 4: dunno name
is a uncle from china who wear spec whom xt say is quite strong. anyway this is 1 game tat make me feel like slapping myself, throwing all the stones at myself, banging my head with the weiqi board (ok, no use cause is soft) and many more.... cause is a winning game and i lose it. When i place my move at one useless gote place i immediately saw a huge flaw in one of my piece but is was too late. At that moment i wish i could point at a direction to distract him so that i can undo my last move but haiz.... felt so angry of myself tat i slam 3 seed on the board to resign (pls dun follow, is very rude n bad). This kind of feeling is so arghhhh....

Game 5: ex sp
he is whampoa cup group b champion. Played bad for this game cause i wasnt able to calm down from my last match. It was a sure lose game for me but miricle happen when he ans one of my yose move without thinking. i was shocked cause is not possible to make this kind of mistake. In the end i tycolly won this match.

Game 6: jin xin lai
a p6 kid.... this game is the most exciting one cause there are big exchange here n there and i was really confident to win when in yose. But then a disgusting move of mine in yose cause a few seed to be eaten. In the end i won by 0.5. Isnt this tyco again?

Even though i win 4 out of 6 i felt very disappointed of my game played (as usual) and the opponent i won are not really strong so nothing to be happy about. i can imagine the type of comment i am going to get when review of game by yls.

Was reading hajin's blog and i found this article written by her on her recent match which is won by 0.5.


I am happy but so exhausted. As you can see in the article, I won a match today. The game lasted over 7 hours and it was really complicated. I have read and read millions of variations and counted territories hundreds of times. Actually I was slightly behind at the endgame but my opponent made a few mistakes in countdown, accordingly I could reverse the game. When I felt certain that I would win by a half point, I was so relieved. This game was quite important to me for some reasons, which are followed;


1. The best 4 players get the next year’s main tournament seed. (Which means I don't have to play at the preliminary round next year!!)

2. I’ve never experienced the best-three final match yet. (For this, I must win one more game though)

3. It was the last main tournament that I wasn’t eliminated yet.

4. I knew that there would be an article on this game and I didn’t want to translate about my defeat.

However apart from all the reasons, I hate losing. haha (who wouldn't?)


haha, point 4 is lame though... haha. Is rare to see pro writing about how he or she feel about their match especially when is a 0.5 win.

So sad, the phone i want (m600i) is no longer in market. I went to sim lim and one of the sales person say this phone is ice age / dinosaur already.... OK...new target... sony ericsson G700 business!!!

I am now in swa and i am kind of shocked cause the whole place is in a mess.

Litters all over the place...

Table very messy.....

Jurong green respond is bad....

People sign up for jurong green cup. Is the only fast game in sg so pls support :)

Whampoa cup is yesterday and i manage to transform to everyone favourite auntie--> Ms Seng for 2 rounds. Well, long story so lazy to explain. And i gotten curse and swear when everyone know i am her, muhahahahaha... Well... she is famous man....

Was reading xing wei's blog and he describe about group A and B...

Quote from xing wei's blog.....

Group B: Kyu level group. The level of players where you can not think so much and still win. You probably won't think so much anyway, people usually finish the games in 30 mins. This group is where people do not really understand shape play but try to do their best. To people in this group, Ganbatte! Do my shape problems!

Group A: Dan level group. The level of players where you think so much but still make a mistake that could cost you the game. Where all the scary players in the Weiqi world in Singapore congregate and start slashing each other on the battlefield. 45 mins is barely enough.

nice description!!!

Well congrats to those singaporean who make it into next year world amateur selection. Pls fight among yourself as hard as possible so that the best can represent sg can make it to top 10.

Ppl in the selection--> zhang xiang, cheng cheng, junzhe and the 4th one is unknown cause is not in top 8.