Team Tournament for Chips

We asked Yoo Jae-seong's school, if 3 kids could come to play with the actual top 3 players in BIBA. (Ondra, Fredrik and Ali).
Usually the kids from Yoo Jae-seong's school are coming every Thursday, but we thought it would be a useful training for the weekend.
On Saturday, there will be a lighting tournament in Daejon. Ondra, Fred and Ali are going. Time setting will be only byoyomi (30 seconds 2 times).
So today they play similar time setting, 5 minutes main time and byoyomi 30 seconds 2 times.
The first round BIBA won with perfect score, 3-0, however in the second round they lost all their games. Therefore the final round is going to decide whether the kids get chips or not. The BIBA students promised to the kids, they will buy them chips if they win the team tournament. (motivation for the young kids to play more seriously :)

The current result is...

Let's see how it will end........

Final Result

Hanbayon Tournament

Last Sunday there was another Hanbayon Tournament.
Everyone did pretty well.

Here is the result:

Mano managed to go back to the strongest group again. :)
Although Gabriel did very well in the first group, he failed to go up to the strongest group. That means he is not gonna stay. :(
Jiehui lost on time once, otherwise he did very well. :)
Anyway everyone made pretty nice result. Congrats.

3rd Team Tournament against Yoo Jae-sung's Academy

It seems BIBA is getting used to these kids' style. The children visited us again and this time BIBA had better result. :) We won 10 games and lost 9. (two children played an extra game)

One of the students is yonguseng, the rest are from Hanbayon.

1st Team Tournament against Kwon Gap-yong's Academy

Last Friday we visited the school where Lee Sedol, Choi Cheol-han and other top players were studying. It is one of the biggest school in Korea. We are planning to visit them at least once a month.

BIBA students played 3 games. In the first round they played even games, in the second round 1 stone and in third round they played with the strongest students from the academy, so they got 2 stones handicap.

Dusan saved BIBA, he managed to win 3 games :), Ali won 2 games but the other 10 students won only 4 games out of 26 games.

So total score was 9 wins 27 loss :(

Score tables from each round:

Result of first round. Opponents are not yongusengs yet. Every game was played even.

Result of second round. Every game was played by 1 stone handicap. Some of the opponents are already younguseng. For example Ondra's opponent is from 6th group. Others from 9th or 10th.... and two from the 1st group are female youngusengs.

Result of third round. Every game was played by 2 stones handicap. All youngusengs are boys. The children from 1st and 2nd group are already played in professional tournaments and beat pro players as well. They are very close to become pro players (there was a small mistake in pairing so Jiehui got lucky and played with a younguseng from 2nd group).

BIBA vs Kwon Gap-yong Academy

Ondra vs Kang Ji-hoon (1st group younguseng-2 stones handicap, Ondra said the game was over after 50 moves)

Group picture

We will go back in next month. Hopefully with a better result that time. :)

2nd Team Tournament against Yoo Jae-sung's Academy

The first team tournament between Korean kids from Yoo Jae-sung's academy was played on 3rd of November, unfortunately the result was not good for BIBA (1-11). A weak later BIBA challenged the kids again.

Some pictures:

BIBA vs Yoo Jae-sung's academy, First round

Second round, BIBA students took their revange :)

After the first round, Blackie talked to the guys, that they should show some power otherwise the kids probably wont feel like coming back again. :)
Also Blackie wanted to suggest to play with 1 stone handicap, but it seems this was too much, so they asked for a last chance to play even game, and finally they showed how to win. :)

Group review after the games.

So during first round they did 3 wins 6 loss, but on the second round BIBA managed to win 6 and loss 3 only.

(on the last two boards during first round the difference were too big, so BIBA students get 2 stones handicap, otherwise all game were played even)

After dinner, there was a lecture about Nirensei for 2 hours.

Very busy days 4 - Samsung Cup

After Hanbayon, we all gathered at BIBA and went directly to the Samsung Training Institute at Daejon to watch the Semi-final games; Won Sung-jin vs ChonYaoye, and Na Hyun vs Gu Li. Best of 3 can go to the final.

We were 15 people, Blackie, me (Dia) and 13 students, so we needed a mini bus and Blackie's car.

We made special training schedule during these four days, going to show through pictures.

List of the students.

BIBA - from the left, standing - Vladimiro, Yury, Dusan, Issa, Ron, Dia, Ali, Blackie, Fredrik, Alessandro - sitting - Corlan, Him, Gabriel, Ondra - and Benjamin -

Players, Leagues and Schedule

Detailed schedule.

League games

Studying together, giving interview to K-Baduk TV and playing with top amateur players. On the picture, possible to see Corlan playing with one of the top senior amateur players. Park Chi-moon 7d. He is a journalist and he also writes the Samsung Cup book every year.

Guessing move game. Ondra invented a game, everyone starts with 10 points and we can bet on the next move. Minimum bet is 10 points. If you guess well, you get 20, if you miss it, you lose your 10 points. Gabriel, Benjamin, Ondra, Him, Dusan were playing, but Ondra got to play with another strong 7d player, so I replaced him for few rounds. We were playing on Nahyun vs Gu Li game and Fredrik told me that later Gu Li suggested my move to Nahyun. :) But that doesn't count, I still lost my 10 points bet, cause I didn't guess Nahyun's move. :)

We were studying together with Hwang Yi-jhong (he is the team leader of the Chinese players, also one of the top player in China, he has been already in the best 4 in Samsung Cup. He is very kind and nice to the foreigners, explained many variations to BIBA students.

Very busy days 3 - Hanbayon Tournament

The team tournament was finished on Friday, and on Saturday everyone arrived to Sanbon. (During the tournament, the players of the team tournament stayed in Seoul) After we arranged the accommodation for 13 people, we played small team tournament at BIBA and gave more interviews for K-Baduk TV.

There were 4 teams with 4 players.

Blackie is playing on the first board for Team A and Dusan is playing on the first board for Team B. Two stones game, Blackie won.

Right after this busy Saturday, there was a big tournament on Sunday (30th of October), which is called Hanbayon. I have already mentioned this tournament, it is played on every last Sunday in every month, and of course this Sunday was the day. :) It is for elementery school students (there is no age limit for foreigners), before they become yonguseng (insei), so the teachers, parents can know how their their studies going on. (We can also see our BIBA students's improvements:)

Everyone played except Dusan and Fredrik, they got a bit sick, so they decided to play from next league.
There are 11 groups (strongest group and from 1th to 10th group) , around 20 kids per group. Swiss system. The kids has to start from the 10th group, when they first enter to hanbayon, but we can tell about the rank of BIBA students, so they can start from higher groups. our estimation was more or less correct. Ondra played in the strongest group. Benjamin and Him tried the 1st group. Gabriel made a nice result in the 2nd group. Ali got 3 wins while Corlan got 2 wins in the 2nd group. Both; Vladimiro and Yury should have played in the 5th group, but somehow Vladimiro ended up in the 4th group and Yury in the 6th. So Vladimiro had hard time, while Yury could make many wins. Sorry. :) Alessandro did very well in the 8th group, if he would have stayed longer he would go up to 7th group, and Issa managed to stay in the 9th group. Hopefully next time he goes up. :)

So if someone makes a good performance, he can go up one group, if someone makes bad result, then will drop down.
I almost forgot, Gabriel managed to go up to 1st group and luckily his plane is on the 30th of November, so he has chance to play next league. He promised if he can go up to strongest group, he will stay to play in the next league as well. :) Good Luck Gabriel ^^

Result of the Hanbayon Tournament