MilanMilan tells us "kghin has less than 5% probability of entering Top3" in this year's WAGC!

kghin is having a hard time maintaining his 9d rank on KGS.

He was demoted to 8d again today, after being defeated by MilanMilan in a very exciting match.

You can watch their game here.

Black (MilanMilan) had a big lead in Fuseki (after J16 you can see that his thickness and influence in the center is huge!), but somehow kghin managed to turn the game into a very complicated large-scale fight and created troubles for Black.

Even after White's group was captured at the top left, he still got some chances by threatening to make a huge territory at the bottom. By now this thrilling game was being watched by over 500 observers!

Black took the risk and actually managed to make his group live while killing White's! kghin was forced to resign.

MilanMilan [9d]: after n8, B leads by 30+ later I played terrible, W has much chance in the middle

No one on KGS knows Chi Hin Chan (kghin) better than Peter Liu (MilanMilan). Over the years, the two have played each other more than 100 times, and Peter's winning percentage is close to 80%.

Nevertheless, just before this game, kghin had actually beaten MilanMilan three times in a row.

We decided to ask (casually) Peter what he thinks about kghin's improvement and his chances in this year's WAGC (World Amateur Go Championship), and he kindly agreed to share his opinion.

Peter thinks that although kghin has a "rich experience" and "is good at fighting", he is "still far away from pros" because "his logic and ethics" are still "kind of strange".

When pressed for clarification, Peter said that kghin still plays moves that "should never be played by pros" (amateurish moves, that is, "in a smooth way to say").

According to MilanMilan, some part of kghin's Go knowledge has "mistakes", so he says that is why he prefers Thomas Debarre [who beat kghin in last year's WAGC].

Peter concedes that last year kghin didn't play at his "real level" and that he can do better this year, but adds that "no3 is his limitation":

MilanMilan: He has under 5% possibility to enter top3

He reminds us that players from China and Korea are always in the top 3, and that Japanese players are also very strong; but MilanMilan also stated that he would "prefer to see players from Europe beating players from China and Korea".