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- From: jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.go
- Subject: Re: 1992: The Frist Year of IGS
- Message-ID: <8500@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 01:42:40 GMT
- References: <1993Jan1.080652.3274@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Sender: news@cwi.nl
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- jzy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jim Yu) writes:
-
- An extremely interesting and heart-warming article!
- Thanks Jim, your words are always such a pleasure to read!
-
- I just have an aditional piece of information considering the
- encounters Nagahara-lzy, Ishida-dong and Kobayashi-Otake:
-
- >* Early September, focus shifts to Amsterdam, Holland (the Netherlands).
- > The first game of 1992 Japan's Meijin Sen is to played in Amsterdam.
- > With the help of some IGS'ers in Amsterdam, especailly jansteen, this
- > is to be shown live on IGS. For warmup, on September 5, Nagahara
- > Yoshiaki 6-dan plays a game vs lzy. Then on September 8, Ishida Yoshio
- > 9-dan, who is to be the referee of the Meijin game, plays a game vs
- > dong. Ishida-dong encounter attracts over 100 observers at one time,
- > a sure unofficial record on IGS.
-
- The complete game records (including kibitz) of both games is available
- as a printable PostScript file from:
-
- ftp : sun4nl.nluug.nl
- dir : pub/games/go/games
- file: nagahara.ps.Z (50754 bytes)
- file: ishida.ps.Z (68963 bytes)
-
- >* September 9-10, first game of Meijin Sen 1992 is shown live on IGS.
- > Kobayashi Koichi and Otake Hideo start their best-of-seven matchup in
- > a hotel in Amsterdam. Two IGS'ers, jansteen and AshaiRey, type in the
- > moves for Kobayashi and Otake, respectively, based on the information
- > received from TV terminals. The game is played in 16 hours, while
- > the kibitzing on IGS lasts 18 hours. IGS-produced game file collects
- > 3053 kibitzes, worth over 140KB of memory. :-)
-
- The complete game record (including the 3053 kibitzes!) is available
- as a printable PostScript file (or its LaTeX source) from:
-
- ftp : sun4nl.nluug.nl
- dir : pub/games/go/games
- file: meijin.ps.Z (PostScript file, 184276 bytes)
- file: meijintex.tar.Z (LaTeX source, 117549 bytes)
-
- The document is huge (94 pages) but very interesting to read. It also
- includes an introduction, some statistics and the moves of the two
- previously mentioned games (ishida-dong and nagahara-lzy).
-
- Jan van der Steen
-
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