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NORTH AMERICAN ING MASTERS: FINAL ROUND COMMENTARY BY YASUMASA HANE 9P (& FRIENDS)

Congress to a crowd of several hundred attendees,while hundreds more watched on KGS: on one screen was the actual game and a cloned game with Hane's commentary, on the other was a live video feed showing the players. Hane began the game commentary and eventually it was taken over by Maeda and Shigeko; all three -- with the able assistance of translators Yoshi Sawada and Shoji Honsono -- kept everyone entertained and engaged. At the three-hour mark the two players were still battling it out but the crowd, the commentators and the translators were transfixed, and the detailed commentary continued right through the end of the 4-hour, 3-point marathon game, which didn't finish until after 11 p.m. - report/photo by Chris Garlock
[sgf sgfUrl="http://www.usgo.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2010.08.06-NAIM_Rd5Bd1_ELui-HYang_Hane-commentary.sgf" theme="full" href="http://www.usgo.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2010.08.06-NAIM_Rd5Bd1_ELui-HYang_Hane-commentary.sgf" class="alignleft"][/sgf]2010 North American Ing Masters Tournament Round 5, Board 1 (Final) Friday, August 6, 2010 Played at UCCS, Colorado Springs, CO Broadcast live on the KGS Go Server W: Eric Lui 7D B: Huiren Yang 1P Commentary by Yasumasa Hane 9P, Maeda Ryo 6P & Shigeko Hane 1P Translation by Yoshi Sawada & Shoji Hosono Recorded by Solomon Smilack, transcribed by Todd Blatt. KGS support by Akane Negishi and Matt Heymering EJ coordination by Chris Garlock and Steve Colburn