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New edition of Chunlan Cup started today. In first round we could see 8 interesting games between player from whole world with following paring:

• Cristian Pop 7D vs Won Sungjin 9p B+R
• Mok Jinseok 9p vs Zhou Junxun 9p W+5,5
• Yoda Norimoto 9p vs Ding Wei 9p B+R
• Takao Shinji 9p vs Zhang Li 4p W+R
  
• Kono Rin 9p vs Wang Yao 6p B+R
• Wang Xi 9p vs Chen Shiyuan 7p W+R
• Chen Yaoye 9p vs Kobayashi Satoru 9p W+R
• Imamura Toshiya 9p vs Cha Minsoo 4p B+R

In third game between Yoda Norimoto 9p(W) from Japan and Ding Wei 9p from China we could see new approach to old joseki. In past white 12 was consider to bad instead of this normally white play one line lower. After black 13 white can play at 22 because of double hane, but white 14 is interesting approach.

In the game Ding Wei build big moyo and Yoda Norimoto invade in it using weakness around black 13 but Ding Wei attack Yoda invader very skillful building another big moyo in upper side and easily won the game. Yoda Norimoto resign after 191 moves.

In fourth game Takao Shinji 9p from Japan play very even game against Zhang Li 4p, and thanks to big komi (7,5 points) he forced Zhang Li to resign after 180 moves. Takao Shinji was only player from Japan who advance to second round. Now we can said that after some big successful matchs in national scene started finding his place on international scene.

In 5th game Japan Tengen Kono Rin 9p met Wang Yao 6p. In this game Wang Yao find great tesuji(black 185) in early yose and unexpectedly kill big white dragon. After 203 moves Kono Rin resign.

In game between Chen Yaoye 9p from China and Kobayashi Satoru 9p from Japan we could see another big kill. Again Japanese veteran overlook great tesuji and loss big group. It was very pity because even if player like Kobayashi Satoru win preliminary stages they lost in 1 or 2 round. It will be more interesting to see one more time some veterans like Cho Hunhyun, Cho Chikun or Seo Bongsoo in final of international tournament.

Last Japanese player Imamura Toshiya 9p lost to Cha Minsoo 4p. Cha Minsoo origin is Korea and in past he was consider to be one of the strongest Korean amateur player. Now he live and America and time to time he represents America in international tournaments. In today game he play very solid and after very risky invasion of Imamura Toshiya he very skillful kill proponents group. Cha

In Last game we could see Wang Xi 9p from China and Chen Shiyuan 7p from Taiwan. This is game was typical for this day. Wang Xi kill big dragon and won the game by resignation.

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