sky77 9d, he wants to be the best! Can kgs stars stop him?
Recently a new strong player appeared on KGS, sky77. He played 7 games and reached 9d? level winning all his games. In his info it's said: "I'm 7 dan amateur in korea I want to play go with most strong players". As long as I know 7 dan is the best amateur level in Korea and is awarded after winning national tournament. I remember another 7 dan player from Korea, Mr. Lee Ki Bong. He is famous among KGS players, we posted several games on Gosensations and also Alex posted interview with him in one of goama issues. He was active a year ago on KGS and was solid 8d, sometimes he even got to 9d level.
One thing that bugs me in his info is that he came to KGS to play against "most strong players". Couldn't he find stronger players on korean Go servers such as Tygem or Oro where lots of pros play every day. In comparison with them KGS is much weaker server, so maybe he has ulterior reasons, we will see in near future. Flashback 7d (aka Bum) is Jan Simara 5d Egf well known player on KGS. In his last games he showed good results defeating in even games crowis 9d (Hwang in-seong) and breakfast 3p. But his first game against sky77 (which was even) lasted only 70 moves! Second game was played on 2 stones handicap. It was more exciting than previous one, a lot of fighting in every part of the board. Sky77 showed great reading skills, it was almost blitz game only 30 sec for move. They used Canadian time 1 move in 30 sec, this is fist time I have come across using Canadian time as regular byo-yomi. Well, anyways, sky77 9d? looks pretty strong, I'm looking forward to see him playing against strongest KGS players such as MilanMilan, Bigbadwolf and others...
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2010-09-28
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