Lee ChunGyu 5Dan is known to be weak in the end game. Park JungSang 9Dan said about Lee 5Dan that he can be very strong against high rank players. But he can lose easily against low rank players as he is weak in the end game.
But Lee ChunGyu 5Dan meets only players who are strong in the end game. Lee 5Dan met An JoYoung 9Dan who is really strong in the end game and also Park YoungHun 9Dan in the round 16.
However Lee ChunGyu 5Dan won last game by having a lot of territories from the beginning. Lee 5Dan also had same strategy with last time to take as many territories as possible from the beginning and finish the game.
He might over focus on territory? Park YoungHun 9Dan got influence easily from the beginning. But the problem was that the territory was also very closed. Park YoungHun 9Dan likes this kind of style these days as he is very confidence to follow up with the influence in the end game.
Park YoungHun 9Dan did not try overplays, instead he led the game smoothly. In the end, Park YoungHun 9Dan won by 5.5 points with black. Park YoungHun 9Dan looks to have very good condition these days and he won 5 games and lost only 1 game in 2013. Park 9Dan will meet with Kim SeongJae 5Dan in the next round.
So far, Park YoungHun, Kim SeongJae, Lee SeDol, Kim JeongHun, Lee DongHun and Choi ChelHan are in the round 8. Only two seats are left for others.
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