IGS archive: The first game of Yamashita Keigo (bakon) on IGS

That time 4d was the highest starting rank. Yamashita got 5d* easily and sometimes he was 6d*, which is similar to 9d in 2009.
He had very good score with IGS top players, including 3-0 with Catalin Taranu (fifi), 2-1 with Yamashiro (agasa), 1-1 with Kobayashi Koichi (SOFT).
In this game - one of his first games on IGS, you may easily see that "bakon" is Yamashita, because of his playing style. There are not many pros in the world, who play for influence and use these walls for fighting - not for creating moyos.

IGS statistic:
bakon, 9-dan
937 wins -537 losses
Last access: May, 2005