Japanese Professional Pair Go Championship 2021

The Japanese Professional Pair Go Championship was played on the 13th of February of 2022, due to the game being postponed several times. Iyama Yuta 9p teamed up with Nyu Eiko 4p, who is the niece of Niu Xian Xian 5p, who in turn is the wife of Michael Redmond 9p. Ichiriki Ryo 9p played together with Chinen Kaori 6p.

performance graph (AI)

The game went fairly well for Iyama and Nyu, and when Chinen decided not to play ko and covered with move 101 (which was a 20 point mistake), Nyu could have lived with the bottom left corner. But with move 102 Nyu made a terrible mistake (34 point mistake), and the corner was killed. The game became favorable for black, but they couldn’t consolidate their advantage and the game became even, where the mistakes made were about even. After Iyama made a 5 point mistake with move 172, they fell behind, and their opponent didn’t make any big mistakes anymore. and won the game after Iyama and Nyu resigned after move 255.

On a side note, the Pair Go World Cup 2020 will be held as the Pair Go World Cup 2022, from March 17 to 21, 2022. As it also was postponed due to COVID. Where 3 Japanese pairs play against pairs from China, South Korea, and Taiwan.

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