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CHO U EVENS UP TENGEN TITLE MATCH: Cho U 9P (right) won the second game against challenger Yamashita Keigo 9P in the best-of-five-games defense of his Tengen title on November 19th to make the score 1-1. Cho, who holds "only" four titles now, after losing the Meijin to Iyama Yuta 9P, won this title last year for the first time, taking it from Kono Rin 9P who held it for three years. Kono took it from Yamashita in 2005, and Yamashita was unable to regain it despite being the challenger the next two years. Yamashita had held the title for only one year. The third game in the title match is scheduled for December 3rd. Cho is also currently engaged in defending his Oza title against challenger Yamada Kimio 9P. Cho won the first game of that match and the second of the best-of-five-games event will be on November 24th.

KOREA WINS PAIR GO CHAMPIONSHIPS; U.S. PLACES 14TH: Korea won the 20th International Amateur Pair Go Championships, held November 14-15 in Tokyo. Thirty two pairs from 22 countries and territories competed. Japanese pairs took 2nd, 3rd and 5th, with a Chinese pair winning 4th place. From the West, only the Russian team managed to crack the top ten – and that just barely – with Elvina Karlsberg 4d and Evgeny Matveev 5d from Russia in 10th. The U.S. team of Yinlin Wang and Yuan Zhou placed 14th, with Canada in 15th. Other top-20 teams from Europe included Germany at 17th place, with the Czech Republic at 18th and the United Kingdom at 19th. Click here for full results.