Kim Jiseok 7p defeated Kong Jie 9p current title holder in quater finals
2010-10-14
Expert: 
Introduction.
In the quarter finals, Kim Jisuk 7p
defeated Kong Jie 9p (current title holder) by resignation and advanced to semi
finals. This was very unexpected and not only to me.
Kong Jie 9p is well known top player from China so I'd like to introduce Kim
Jisuk 7p. He is 21 years old, became 1 dan in 2003. He won his first
title 5th Prices Information Cup champion in 2009 by beating Lee Changho 9p 2:0. His 2009 result was
incredible 86% (48-8). So everyone expects
him a bright future.
The game.
I was watching the game broadcast online on wbaduk and the betting was
tremendously in Kong Jie's favor 84/16 %. I believe the first serious
mistake made by Kong Jie was move B45. Before the move a lot of diagrams were
shown of possible continuation but none of commentators showed the move which
was played in the game. Kim took initiative playing tenuki to make shimari and
enlarge his moyo.
Kong Jie started ko in upper right corner where he already spent one more move
and then after a few exchanges Kim takes another tenuki securing the corner.
Now the situation is bad for black as he's obviously behind. He has to kill
white's group which still doesn't have 2 eyes. But after long pondering Kong
decided to play 2 moves on the side (he's already 2 steps late) thus allowing
white to reinforce in the upper right corner.
Then there were full of fighting by the two players. But Black was already
unfavorable in the game. Kim won the game dodging very nicely and handling Black's
attacks.
And some information on the Samsung Cup:
The 15th Samsung Cup is managed by JoongAng Dialy and KBS, supported by
Samsung. Each player is given 2 hours and 5 times of 1 minute for overtime. The
champion prize money is 200 million Won (approx. 171,673 $), and the total
prize money is 606 million Won (approx. 520,000 $)
Source: www.wbaduk.com