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World Go League Invitational Off & Running

The World Go League Invitational (New Go Server Launches With 10 Top Pros in $100,000 Invitational 12/15/2012 EJ) is underway. Sponsored by new go server go9dan.com, the contest seeks to determine the strongest go player in the world in a battle between the top five Korean pros and the top five Chinese pros. The World Pro Go League, the first quarterly league, commenced the last week of January and will end in March or April. Click here to see the the latest results and playing schedule and here for game records. To read comments see go9dan.com's Facebook page.
Here are the results in the first five games; the first player is white and the winner is in bold: 1. Lee Sedol-Chen Yaoye;
2. Shi Yue-Lee Changho;
3. Park Junghwan-Xie He (note from go9dan.com: the "future authority of Korean Go” Park Junghwan won by time against one of the super-powers of China Xie He at move 84. We confirmed with Xie that it was not a technical problem. "The opening joseki feels good for white. After W's move at 60, the game looks difficult for black." said Lee Sedol);
4. Kong Jie-Park Younghoon;
5. Fan Tingyu-Kim Jisuk.