We have
another Chinese professional on KGS!
His username
is "jove", and he is currently
unbeatable! He became "9d?" after defeating "kghin" 8-dan,
and I don't think he will lose the "?" any time soon as it will be
very hard for anyone on KGS to beat him!
Here you can
see jove playing against "Hutoshi4" 8-dan. I think you will be
impressed: when Black resigned, White had captured half of the board, having
killed over 40 Black stones!
Black D7
(move 7) is a new fashion, but here it didn't work out well for B. You can see
that after White B3 (move 32), W got a great result... Black could try C3
instead of E2 (move 29), but it would still be hard for Black to get a good
result (I added the variation in the game file shown by Hutoshi4 after the
game).
For the
record, it was "chenns", KGS 8-dan, who revealed that jove is a
Chinese pro:
chenns [8d]: white is 3P from China
Both jove and
chenns registered on KGS at about the same time, so maybe they are friends?
After doing
some research, I discovered that chenns is Nai San
Chan(!) a very strong amateur from Hong Kong (China) who placed 3th in the
World Amateur Go Championship 2009. He confirmed it! (I will try to post a game
played by chenns soon.)
It is very
exciting to see so many new strong players coming to KGS!