10-18 32nd Meijin title

The Meijin Takao Shinji pulled one back. In an interesting middle and end game Takao finished just before the challenger Cho U, Gosei. The title holder still is facing kadoban but the win will have given him confidence. The match was covered live on IGS-PandaNet. 

 10-17 26th Female Honinbo title

Poor Yashiro Kumiko, she lost her Honinbo title with straight numbers against Xie Yimin, two games with the smallest possible margin. So now Xie is Honinbo and also Strongest Female. With her 18 years of age a true talent to be taken seriously. 

 10-16 The XXVIII Berliner Kranich

The "XXVIII. Berliner Kranich" will be held from the 23rd to 25th of November in Berlin, Germany. It is an international Go tournament and one of the largest and oldest in Germany. There will be seminars, a seller with Go material, original food from Japanese women and many more. Subscribe now! 

 10-11 20th Mingren title

Ding Wei will challenge Gu Li for the 20th Mingren title. Ding beat Kong Jie in the final of the challenger tournament. 

 10-11 12th GS Caltex Cup

An impressive performance by Park YoungHoon in the 12th GS Caltex Cup league. By winning all his games Park became the undisputable challenger of current champion Lee SeDol. In a best-of-five match they will decide the new title holder. 

 10-11 32nd Meijin title

The Meijin Takao Shinji is facing kadoban, ie. one more loss will lose the match. Cho U, Gosei, built up lots of thickness and was able to set up an attack against a white center group, even willing to sacrifice a group himself in the process. Let's see if Takao Meijin can recover from this blow. To be continued next week... The match was covered live on IGS-PandaNet. 

 10-10 12th Samsung Cup

In the 12th Samsung title the seats are taken in the best-of-three semi's. It's two from China against two from Korea for two places in the final. The names: Gu Li vs. Park YoungHoon and Huang Yizhong vs. Lee SeDol. 

 10-07 Cracking Go

Feng-Hsiung Hsu, developer of Deep Blue says: "My gut feeling is that with some optimization a machine that can search a trillion positions per second would be enough to play Go at the very highest level. [...] At Microsoft Research Asia we are seeding university efforts in China with the goal of solving some of the basic problems. Whether these efforts lead to a world-champion Go machine in the next decade remains to be seen. I certainly wouldn't bet against it."
Read the complete article at: IEEE's Spectrum online. 

 10-02 35th Myungin title

After an exciting league including playoff the title match for the 35th Myungin title will be played between Cho HanSung and Lee SeDol. The latter started well by taking the first game of the best-of-five.