Not only did Ichiriki win the finals, he won it 3-0! I love it that a Japanese top player was finally able to win the most prestigious international go title (for the first time actually), after decades of Japanese pros having a reputation of not really being a match anymore for Korean and Chinese pros. I enjoyed watching this review Michael Chen 1p AGA made about all the games in the match: That video is more than 2 hours long, but it’s not boring at all …
Just going through it now and it#s really good analysis, thanks for sharing.
However, it seemed that he was sometimes discussing some variants from the AI that he assumed the viewers could see, but they’re no on the recording (in the chat, someone says “diagrams not showing” so I assume his stream couldn’t see it either).
I think he’s mostly aware that the diagrams aren’t showing, but maybe forgets sometimes. I guess he’s not had quite as much practice at doing this sort of thing as has Michael Redmond, who also did youtube video reviews of the games. It was interesting to see where they chose to focus on different things.
