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MLily: Ryan Li 1p Vs. Chen Yaoye 9p in Second Round; AGA Broadcasts

The AGA Broadcast team will provide coverage of two games from Round 2 of the 3rd Lily Cup tomorrow, June 20th, starting at 10:30 p.m. PDT (UTC-7), with commentary by Jennie Shen 2p. Our very own Ryan Li 1p, winning yesterday against Cheng Honghao 2p, now faces world champ Chen Yaoye 9p.   

Elsewhere in the tournament, Wang Haoyang 6p scored an upset win against Shin Jinseo, the rising Korean phenom, which wins him the chance to play DeepZenGo in round 2. Join us at http://www.youtube.com/c/usgoweb/live or http://twitch.tv/usgoweb !

The MLily cup is the first traditional tournament in which AI players are seeded just as their human counterparts, and it may also be the last, with Tygem China News reporting that no future Chinese tournaments will allow AI entrants.       Here is Ryan Li's monster 363(!) move 1st round win over Cheng Honghao 2p: [sgf sgfUrl="http://www.usgo.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017_06_19_RyanLi_ChengHonghao_MLily.sgf" href="http://www.usgo.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017_06_19_RyanLi_ChengHonghao_MLily.sgf" class="alignright"] [/sgf]