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Bacchus Cup Chunweon Title (Korean Tengen)
format, prize money, 1996 winner   80: 6

 
Bacchus Cup Chunweon Title Match
1996 (1st): Yi Ch’ang-ho defeats Cho Hun-hyeon (+ Game 1)   79: 17-18
1997 (2nd): Yi Ch’ang-ho wins   81: 5-6
1999 (4th): Yi Ch’ang-ho wins   88: 12
2000 (5th): Yi Se-tol wins   91: 13
2001 (6th): Pak Yeong-hun plays in and wins (+ results)   93: 10;  94: 12
2002 (7th): Song T’ae-kon wins (+ results)   97: 56
2003 (8th): Ch’oe Ch’eol-han wins (+ results)   100: 10
2004 (9th): Ch’oe Ch’eol-han wins (+ results)   103: 10
2005 (10th): Ko Keun-t’ae wins (+ results)   106: 7
2007 (12th): Weon Seong-chin wins (+ results)   114: 8-9
2008-09 (13th): Kang Tong-yun wins (+ results)   117: 11;  118: 9
2009 (14th): Pak Cheong-hwan wins (+ results)   121: 10
2010-11 (15th): Ch’oe Ch’eol-han wins (+ results)   124: 11;  125: 11-12;  128: 64
2011 (16th): Ch’oe Ch’eol-han wins (+ results)   127: 9

 
Bacchus Cup Chunweon Tournament
2004 (9th): Mok Chin-seok vs. Kim Yeong-sam   117: 64

 
Backgammon
Takemiya Masaki wins tournament (2005)   106: 6

 
Bad moves  see under Shape and technique as well as Mistakes

 
Bad shape/style  see under Shape and technique

 
Baduk  see Go

 
Baduk  (magazine)
poll (1999) on 20th century top ten players   88: 12-13

 
Baduk Masters (Korean title)  see Masters Tournament

 
Baduk TV Cup (Korean title)  see Osram Korea Cup ...

 
Bai Baoxiang
WAGC 2011, wins   126: 4

 
Bailing Cup World Igo Open 2012 (1st)
format and highlights   128: 3-4;  129: 2
results of Round 1   128: 4
results of Rounds 2 & 3, quarter- and semifinals   129: 3

 
Bando Hikosaboro V (actor)
in Shinkoki  (triptych, cover note)   124: 1

 
Banker career
Ishikura Noboru turned from, to go professional   49: 37*, 38

 
“Bard of Computer Go, The” (Jonathan Wood)
(on Allan Scarff)   46: 9-13*

 
Barty, Jim vs. Wiltschek, Helmut
WAGC 1983 (play-off for 7th place)   32: 42-44

 
Bases
attacking, of two-space extensions   33: 42-44, 35
securing, on second line (examples)   59: 48, 51-52, 53-54

 
Basic fighting techniques  see under Tesuji problems

 
Basic joseki  see under Joseki

 
Baumann, Hans-Peter vs. Gosteli, Patrice
Swiss Championship 1979-80 (Game 3)   17: 38-40, 57

 
Bawang Title Match (Monarch)
see also successor title Lebaishi Cup
1995 (1st): Cao Dayuan defeats Yu Bin   73: 6
1997 (3rd): Wang Lei defeats Ma Xiaochun (+ Game 6)   80: 48-49

 
Bawang Tournament
1995 (1st): format and winners   73: 5-6
1997 (3rd): Wang Lei wins   79: 19
1997 (3rd): Zhang vs. Wang   79: 19-21

 
BC Card Cup (King of the New Stars or Sinin Wang)
format, prize money, 1997 winner   80: 6

 
BC Card Cup (King of the New Stars) Title Match
1997 (7th): Yi Ch’ang-ho defeats Cho Hun-hyun (Game 4)   80: 30-33
2002 (12th): Yi Se-tol wins (+ results)   95: 13
2004 (14th): An Cho-yeong wins (+ results)   101: 10
2005 (15th): Pak Yeong-hun wins (+ results)   104: 11
2007 (17th): Weon Seong-chin wins (+ results)   111: 9
2008 (18th): Kim Ki-yong wins (+ results)   115: 9

 
BC Card Cup (World Baduk Championship)
2009 (1st): format and results of Rounds 1 to 3   118: 4-5
2009 (1st): results of quarter- & semifinals   119: 2
2010 (2nd): highlights and results of Rounds 1 & 2   121: 3-4
2010 (2nd): results of Round 3, quarter- & semifinals   122: 2-3
2011 (3rd): format and full results   125: 3-4
2012 (4th): highlights and full results   128: 3

 
BC Card Cup (World Baduk Championship) Final
2009 (1st): Gu Li wins (+ results)   119: 2
2009 (1st): Game 4   119: 26-27
2010 (2nd): Yi Se-tol wins (+ results)   122: 2, 3
2011 (3rd): Yi Se-tol wins (+ results)   125: 3, 4
2012 (4th): Pak Hong-seok wins (+ results)   128: 3

 
Beginners
go courses on iPhone for   122: 53
Yi Se-tol on starting to play go   123: 56

 
Beijing go clubs
see also former Peking Go Club
location (1984) of   36: 18

 
Beijing Sports Gymnasium
public match (1984), Ma Xiaochun defeats Kiyonari Tetsuya in   36: 18

 
Belgrade Open Championship
1980 note   22: 3

 
Belly attachment
problem   49: 34, 39

 
Benson, Terry
U.S. Championship 1981 (report)   25: 5

 
Bent four in the corner
comparison of Chinese and Japanese rules   45: 59, 60
comparison of Ing and Japanese rules   5: 37-38
discussion of Japanese rule (example)   45: 61-62

 
Berlekamp, Elwyn and Kim Yonghoan
“Where Is the ‘$1,000 Ko’?”   71: 65-80

 
Berlin Tournament
1979 announcement + note   14: 3;  19: 5

 
Best-of-seven record
Cho Chikun most successful player   79: 40
Kobayashi Koichi extends   67: 49
Rin Kaiho extends   51: 67

 
Best-of-seven title matches
see also individual title matches, Big-three titles (Japan) , Two-day games
Cho U and Iyama Yuta on   125: 32

 
Best players  see Top players

 
Best results  see Top results

 
Best winning percentage  see under Winning percentage

 
BGA  see British Go Association

 
Big points
see also Te-domari
“Urgent Points and Big Opening Points” (Kobayashi Satoru)   95: 41-44

 
Big-seven titles (Japan)
see also Kisei , Meijin , Honinbo , Judan , Tengen , Oza , Gosei
contract fees   48: 40
honorary title-holders (as of 1993)   70: 7
honorary title-holders (as of 2008)   116: 7, 8
youngest title-holders   120: 4

 
Big-three titles (Japan)
see also Kisei , Meijin , Honinbo as well as Triple crown
Games 6 & 7 statistics   106: 35
most titles won (as of 2006)   106: 4
opening up for non-Japanese   124: 36
prize money (as of 2004)   103: 30
rivalry Cho–Rin   57: 13
youngest title-holders   98: 6

 
Big Three vs. promising three women team match (Korea)
2011 report   126: 54

 
Biographies
see also Autobiographies
capsule  see biographical details under individual players
“Go Seigen, The Fabulous Master of Go: ”. Parts 1 & 2 (Fairbairn)   35: 12-22*;
     36: 6-16*
“Iwasaki Kenzo” (Fairbairn)   32: 60-64
“The Rui Naiwei Story, The World Her Stage: ” (Akiyama Kenji)   90: 10-27*

 
Blair, John vs. Rio Alvarez, Juan Del
WAGC 1983 (play-off for 13th place)   33: 46-47

 
Blindfold go
“Pro v. Pro Blindfold Go”   49: 7

 
Blocking move
see also Attach-and-block
thick defensive move (example)   69: 54-55

 
Blom, Jaap K.
“Go in Europe in the 17th Century”   27: 50-56*;  book
“Go in the West in the 18th Century”   91: 65-68*, 55;  book

 
“Blueprint 361” (Miyamoto Naoki)
[8 parts] (middle-game problems)   1 – 8:  ...

 
Blunders  see Mistakes

 
Board regions  see Center , Corner , Side

 
Boards
see also Divination boards , Nara board
“The Driftwood Board” (Fairbairn)   30: 52-53
imperial ceremony using a go board   127: 11*
“In Pursuit of Elegance: A Survey of the Best in Go Equipment”. Part 1 (Fairbairn)
     61: 43-52*;  book 1 ;  book 2

 
Bognar, Tibor
Quebec Open 1979 (report)   15: 4

 
Bohae Cup (Women’s World Professional Championship)
see also successor title Hung Chang Cup
1994-95 (1st): Rui Naiwei wins (+ results)   72: 6-7*, 8
1994-95 (1st): Rui vs. Feng (final, Game 3)   72: 8
1998 (4th): Rui Naiwei wins   82: 3

 
Bohai Cup  see Bohae Cup

 
Book reviews
“Count Pecorini’s The Game of Wei-chi”  (rev. by Shotwell)   50: 78-80
Dictionary of Basic Fuseki (rev. by Power)   102: 11
An Easy Introduction to Go  (rev. by Davies)   18: 61
Five-In-A-Row (Renju)  (rev. by Thayer)   25: 59
Invincible: The Games of Shusaku”  (rev. by Odom)   27: 36-38

 
Books
see The 21st Century Dictionary of Basic Joseki ,
     The Go Player’s Almanac 2001 ,
     Go Super Book 1 ,
     Igo Deta Enjoy Magazin ’96 ,
     The Official British Go Association Song Book ,
     Tesuji Encyclopedia ,
     The World of Go
as well as Classic texts , Problem books

 
Bosai Cup Jinfoshan International Weiqi Tournament 2011 (1st)
Iyama Yuta wins (+ results)   126: 2-3*, 34
Iyama Yuta vs. Gu Li   126: 38-44*
Yi Se-tol vs. Iyama Yuta   126: 34-37*

 
Boshi  see Capping move

 
Bowls
“In Pursuit of Elegance: A Survey of the Best in Go Equipment”. Part 3 (Fairbairn)
     62: 67-68*;  book 1 ;  book 2

 
Bozulich, Richard
editorial notes   73: 6;  74: 6;  82: 6;  96: 2;  102: 42
“Farewell from Go World”   129: 11
The Go Player’s Almanac 2001 (corrections and supplements)   93: 5, 11;  96: 4;
     100: 10
“Go World turns 100” (editorial)   100: 2
letter from the publisher   5: 2

 
Brakes/Hobson’s program vs. Reiss’s program
Acornsoft Computer Go Tournament 1984 (Round 1)   35: 9

 
Breaths (Ing rules)
“Determining Life or Death by Breath Patterns” (Ing Chang-ki)   73: 7-9
types of   71: 17-18

 
Breitkopf, Johann G. I. (18th-century printer)
publishes book with passage on go   91: 66-67*

 
Britain-Japan Telex Match
1978 report   10: 4

 
Britain-USSR Telephone Match
1978 report   7: 5, 55

 
British Championship
see also Candidates , Challengers’ Tournament
1977 report   5: 45
1977: Prescott vs. Diamond (Game 4)   5: 45-48
1978 report   11: 5*
1979 results   16: 57
1979: Stacey vs. Macfadyen (Game 4)   16: 57-60
1980: Macfadyen vs. Stacey (Game 4)   23: 58-60
1984 note   38: 5
1986 report   46: 6

 
British Go Association
elects new president (1979)   14: 4

 
British Go Congress
1979 announcement   10: 3

 
British Junior Championship  see British Youth Championship

 
British Schools Team Championship
1980 report   19: 4*
1981 report   24: 6*
1985 report   41: 5

 
British tournaments
see also British Ch’ship , Go Congress , Schools Team Ch’ship , Youth Ch’ship
as well as London Open
1984 reports (Granville)   35: 7
1985 reports   41: 4
1986 reports   43: 5;  44: 4-5

 
British Youth Championship
1984 report   38: 4
1985 report   41: 5

 
Budapest (European Go Congress 1986)
announcement   41: 4
Ronald Schlemper wins European Championship (+ top results)   45: 4-5

 
Budapest Tournament
1980 note   20: 5-6

 
Buddhist philosophy  see Enlightenment

 
Buildings
Nihon Ki-in building in Ichigaya and earthquake 2011   125: 5

 
Butterfly formation
tewari analysis   59: 63

 
Byo-yomi
“Time is the Enemy” (essay by Akiyama Kenji)   13: 39*, 61

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