Guo Juan's Internet Go School
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or use the search form- Opening Lectures about the opening
- Middle gameLectures about the middle game.
- Pro gamesPro and grand master's games with detailed comments.
- Free LecturesIn this category, all the lectures are free of charge. Enjoy!
- French Lectures Lectures in the French language.
- JosekiLectures about joseki.
- Step courseA step by step course, for players ranging in strength from 30 kyu to 1 dan. 15 lectures in all.
- Other typesThis category contains interesting lectures that do not fall into the any of the other categories.
- Game reviewsIn order to make progress, it is very important to know how to correct your own mistakes. We will have lectures in 5 different levels: 30k-20k, 20k-10k, 10k-1k, 1d-3d, 3d-5d. 2 lectures for each level.
- Basic shapesBasic shapes are very important in the game of Go. They are fundamental, and are similar to the foundation of a house
- End Game If we don't kill big groups to finish the game, then the End game becomes really important. Even when we are behind, we still have chance to win the game by playing a good end game.
- Punishing opponent's mistakesHow to punish our opponent's mistakes is a question we hear often from our students and many other players. In this category, we will help you learn how to punish overplays and mistakes.
- Basic course All the subejects in this basic course will help you to build your 'house' on solid rocks, instead of on soft sand. Each subject we will have three lectures
Lectures about the opening
- Opening Training
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Basic training is very important for our improvement . In this step by step Opening Training programme, there are three levels: A, B and C. From 30k to 5 dan.
All the problems in level B and C are made from pro games.
Step by step, you will train like a pro.
Level A: 30k - 1k
Level B: 10k - 2d
Level C: 1k - 5d
Teachers:
Ding Bo 5p
Hu XiaoLing 2p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5d
- Opening Training A 120 opening exercises with detailed commentary.
Level: 30k - 1k
Teachers:
Hu XiaoLing 2p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 47min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month
Created on May 5, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training A 220 opening exercises with detailed commentary.
Level: 30k - 1k
Teachers:
Hu XiaoLing 2p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 39 min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month
Created on May 7, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training A 320 opening exercises with detailed explanation.
Level: 30k - 1k
Teachers:
Hu XiaoLing 2p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 34 min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on May 14, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training A 420 opening exercises with detailed explanation.
Level: 30k - 1k
Teachers:
Hu XiaoLing 2p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 40 min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on May 14, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training A 5Opening exercises Level A
Level: 30k - 1k
Set 5 (20 exercises)
Teachers:
Hu XiaoLing 2p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 35min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month.
Created on May 18, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training B 1Opening Training Level B
Set 1 (20 exercises)
All the problems are made from Pro games
Level: 10k - 2d
Teachers:
Ding Bo 5p
Hu XiaoLing 2p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 36min
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month. Created on May 19, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training B 2Opening Training Level B
Set 1 (20 exercises)
All the problems are made from Pro games
Level: 10k - 2d
Teachers:
Ding Bo 5p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 34min
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on May 21, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training B 3
Opening Training Level B
Set 3 (20 exercises)
All the problems are made from Pro games
Level: 10k - 2d
Teachers:
Ding Bo 5p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 39min
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on May 26, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training B 4Opening Training Level B
Set 4 (20 exercises)
Level: 10k - 2d
Teachers:
Ding Bo 5p
Guo Juan 5p
Duation: 36 min
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on June 2, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training B 5Opening Training Level B
Set 5 (20 exercises)
Level: 10k - 2d
Teachers:
Ding Bo 5p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 42 min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on June 11, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training C 1Opening Training Level C
Set 1 (20 exercises)
Level: 1k - 5d
Teachers:
Ding Bo 5p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 35min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month
Created on June 16, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training C 2 Opening Training Level C
Set 2 (20 exercises)
Level: 1k - 5d
Teachers:
Ding Bo 5p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 32min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on June 22, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training C 3
Opening Training Level C
Set 3 (20 exercises)
Level: 1k - 5d
Teachers:
Ding Bo 5p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 40min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on July 7, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training C 4Opening Training Level C
Set 4 (20 exercises)
All white to play
Level: 1k - 5d
Teachers:
Ding Bo 5p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 36min.
Pay 1 Euro, watch 1 month Created on July 20, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Opening Training C 5
Opening Training Level C
Set 5 (20 exercises)
Level: 1k - 5d
Teachers:
Ding Bo 5p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 34min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on August 3, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p.
- Opening Training A 120 opening exercises with detailed commentary.
- New Opening Moves
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In this subject we will show you New Opening Moves. The goal of this course is to help you to follow the development of opening/joseki, to see what is happening in the pro world, and to understand their studies.
Level: For all the players who loves or curious about new developments in opening/joseki.
Teachers:
Wang JianKun 7p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p- New Opening Moves_1-ANew Opening Moves
Lecture 1-A
Teachers:
Wang JianKun 7p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
In this first lecture, you will see a very interesting new move (black 8) which played in mini Chinese opening.
Duration: 41min.
Because there are so much information about this new move, we needed to make it in to two lectures: Recent Opening_1-A and Recent Opening_1-B.
Created on July 27, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - New Opening Moves_1-BNew Opening Moves
Lecture 1-b
Teachers:
Wang JianKun 7p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Example pro games:
1) Lee ChangHo 9p - Chang Hao 9p; 2006-03-24; w+3,5
1st-kangwon cup stage 2, game 6
2) Chen YaoYe 5p - Gu Li 7p; 2006-04-03; w+r
3) Zhou JunXun 9p - Chang Hao 9p; 2006-04-10; w+r
4) Park Yuonghoon 9p - Gu Li 9p; 2006-05-15; w + r
5) Takao Shinji 9p - Zhou JunXun 9p; 2006-05-17; b + r
6) Lee ChangHo 9p - Lee SeDol 9p; 2006-06-03; w+4,5
Duration: 46min
Pay 1 Euro, watch 1 month Created on July 29, 2006 by Wang JianKun 7p. - New Opening Moves_2Recent Opening
Lecture 2
Teacher:
Wang JianKun 7p
Editing & English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
White move 2 is the new move we are going to study in this lecture.
Duration: 43 Created on December 2, 2006 by Wang JianKun 7p. - New Opening Moves_3Recent Opening moves
Lecture 3
There are two new moves in this lecture.
Commenting/Editing/English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Example pro games:
Lee SeDol - Luo XiHe, 2007-09-09, W + R
Xie He - Li Zhe, 2007-10-20, B + R
Duration: 32 min. Created on November 29, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - New Opening Moves_4
New Opening Moves
Lecture 4
By Guo Juan 5p
Example pro games:
Gu Li - Lee ChangHo, 2008-07-07, B + RDuration: 37 min.
Created on October 22, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - New Opening Moves_5
Recent Opening moves
Lecture 3
Commenting/Editing/English speaking:
Guo Juan 5pDuration: 32 minutes
Created on July 3, 2010 by Guo Juan 5p. - New Opening Moves_6
Recent Opening moves
Lecture 6
By Guo Juan 5pDuration: 32 minutes
Created on August 4, 2010 by Guo Juan 5p.
- New Opening Moves_1-ANew Opening Moves
- Mini Chinese Opening
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Mini Chinese Opening is one of the most popular openings. Here we have three lectures on this subject.
There are more information about Mini Chinese Opening in 'Common Opening' lectures. Don't miss them.
Teacher:
Wu YuLin 6p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Level: for all of the players who love or are curious about the Mini Chinese opening.
- Mini Chinese Opening Lecture 1Mini Chinese Opening
Lecture 1
Level: for all of the players who love or are curious about the Mini Chinese opening.
There are more information about Mini Chinese Opening in 'Common Opening' lectures.
Teachers:
Wu YuLin 6p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 40min.
Created on August 17, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Mini Chinese Opening Lecture 2Mini Chinese Opening
Lecture 2
Level: for all of the players who love or are curious about the Mini Chinese opening.
Teachers:
Wu YuLin 6p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Example pro games:
1, Lee ChangHo 9p - Chang Hao 9p; 1998-08-25; B + R
2, Liu XiaoGuang 9p - Ma XiaoChun 9p; 1998-10-14; B + R
3, Yoo Changhyuk 9p - Ishida Yoshio 9p; 1999-06-05; B +R
4, Yoo Changhyuk 9p - Zhou HeYang 9p; 1999-09-06; B + R
Duration: 36min.
Pay 2 euro, watch 1 month. Created on August 26, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Mini Chinese Opening Lecture 3Mini Chinese Opening
Lecture 3
Level: for all of the players who love or are curious about the Mini Chinese opening.
Teachers:
Wu YuLin 6p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 40min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on September 3, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p.
- Mini Chinese Opening Lecture 1Mini Chinese Opening
- Common Opening
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In this course, we will study the basic ideas underlying common openings, and
examine some variations.This is a step by step course, so it would be the best to start from lecture 1.
Total 12 lectures.
Level: 30k - 5d
Teacher: Duan Rong 7p, Guo Juan 5p
Editing & English speaking: Guo Juan 5p
- Common Opening Lecture 1
From simple ideas to high level variations, we will step by step learn common opening.
Created on October 28, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p.
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & English speaking: Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 52 - Common Opening Lecture 2Common Opening
Lecture 2
Teacher:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 38min. Created on November 4, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Common Opening Lecture 3Common Opening
Lecture 3
Teacher:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 38 min Created on November 11, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Common Opening Lecture 4Common Opening
Lecture 4
We will show you the variations after white plays at A, B, C or D.
Teacher:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 37 min. Created on November 23, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Common Opening Lecture 5Common Opening
Lecture 5
In this lecture, we will show you the variations of black's next move at A, B, C, D, or E.
Teacher:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 45min
Created on December 16, 2006 by Guo Juan 5p. - Common Opening Lecture 6Common Opening
Lecture 6
Black 1 is an interesting move, we will study the variations of white's next move at A or B.
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 42min.
Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month Created on January 9, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Common Opening Lecture 7Common Opening
Lecture 7
Teacher:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & Presenting:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 47min Created on January 23, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Common Opening Lecture 8Common Opening
Lecture 8
We will study the variations after white plays at A, B, C or D.
Teacher:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & Presenting:
Guo Juan 5p
Pro example games:
Qin Jun - Gu Li, 2004-12-23, w +
Luo XiHe - Shao WeiGang, 2005-06-11, b +
Duration: 43 Created on February 1, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Common Opening Lecture 9Common Opening
Lecture 9
This is just one of the many things we are going to study in this lecture.
Teacher:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & Presenting:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 31 min. Created on February 8, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Common Opening Lecture 10Common Opening
Lecture 10
In this lecture, we will mainly study how to avoid Mini Chinese opening, as white. And we will see some pro games as example.
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & Presenting:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 39 min. Created on March 24, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Common Opening Lecture 11Common Opening
Lecture 11
Some advices from us:
1, Stones/groups need base.
2, Play the correct directions.
Special advice for 30k - 10k:
1, Occupy open areas.
Teacher:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & Presenting:
Guo Juan 5p
Example games:
Yoda Norimoto - Park Yeonghun, 8th Nongshim cup, W + 1,5
Chang Hao - Lee ChangHo, 11th Samsung cup, B +
Duration: 45min. Created on April 17, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Common Opening Lecture 12Common Opening
Lecture 12
Some advices from us:
1, Do not play too close to/from thickness.
2, Pay attention to the position of each stone.
Special advice for 30k - 10k:
1, Do not play too close to your opponent's stones.
Teacher:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & Presenting:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 33 min. Created on April 23, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p.
- Common Opening Lecture 1
- Chinese Opening
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Chinese Opening started in 1960's, today it is again becoming very popular. Indeed it is a very powerful opening. We try to cover all the interesting variations in this opening and explain how to deal with the typical mistakes in details. Teachers: Duan Rong 7p Guo Juan 5p.
Total 7 lectures
- Chinese Opening 1Chinese Opening
Lecture 1
Level: every one who is interested in this wonderful opening.
It is not good if white moves next at A, B or C. These moves are too early. In this lecture, we will study how to handle white moves at A, B or C, and white moves at D or E.
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p Created on July 2, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Chinese Opening 2Chinese Opening
Lecture 2
Level: every one who is interested in this wonderful opening.
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 38 min. Created on July 5, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Chinese Opening 3Chinese Opening
Lecture 3
Level: every one who is interested in this wonderful opening.
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Editing & English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Example game:
Lee ChanHo - Gu Li, 2007-02-09, B+1,5
Duration: 37min. Created on July 13, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Chinese Opening 4Chinese Opening
Lecture 4
Level: 30k - 5d
In this lecture we are going to study black move 2 and much more.
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Example games:
Lee ChangHo - Yu Bin, 1998-12-28, B + R
Cho Chikun - Shao WeiGang, 2002-03-19, W + 7,5
Duration: 36 min.
Created on July 24, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Chinese Opening 5Chinese Opening
Lecture 5
Level: 30k - 5d
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Created on August 5, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Chinese Opening 6Chinese Opening
Lecture 6
Level: For all players who are interested in this wonderful opening.
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p Created on August 16, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p. - Chinese Opening 7Chinese Opening
Lecture 7
Level: For all players who are interested in this wonderful opening.
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
English speaking:
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 39 min. Created on August 20, 2007 by Guo Juan 5p.
- Chinese Opening 1Chinese Opening
- San Lian Xing - San Ren Sei
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One of the most famous opening. For everyone who loves moyo games. Total 7 lectures.
- San Lian Xing / San Ren Sei lecture 1San Lian Xing / San Ren Sei
Lecture 1
Level: any one who loves cosmic style
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 33 min. Created on May 22, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - San Lian Xing / San Ren Sei lecture 2San-Lian-Xin - San-Ren-Sei
Lecture 2
Level: any one who loves cosmic style
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 38 min. Created on May 22, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - San Lian Xing / San Ren Sei lecture 3San-Lian-Xin - San-Ren-Sei
Lecture 3
Level: any one who loves cosmic style
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 37 min Created on May 29, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - San Lian Xing / San Ren Sei lecture 4San-Lian-Xin - San-Ren-Sei
Lecture 4
Level: any one who loves cosmic style
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 34 min. Created on June 5, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - San Lian Xing / San Ren Sei lecture 5San-Lian-Xin - San-Ren-Sei
Lecture 5
Level: any one who loves cosmic style
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 34 min. Created on June 14, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - San Lian Xing / San Ren Sei lecture 6San-Lian-Xin - San-Ren-Sei
Lecture 6
Level: any one who loves cosmic style
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Takemiya Masaki - Otake Hideo, 1990-11-22, B+
Takemiya Masaki - Ryu ShiKun, 2002-09-22, B + 6,5
Duration: 31 min. Created on June 26, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - San Lian Xing / San Ren Sei lecture 7San-Lian-Xin - San-Ren-Sei
Lecture 7
Level: any one who loves cosmic style
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 43 min. Created on July 6, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p.
- San Lian Xing / San Ren Sei lecture 1San Lian Xing / San Ren Sei
- Kobayashi Koichi Style
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A very interesting opening to learn.
Total 13 lectures.
- Kobayashi Koichi Style 1Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 1
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Example game:
Kobayashi Koichi - Ishida Akira, 1981-07-23, B +
Duration: 31 min. Created on August 8, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - Kobayashi Koichi Style 2Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 2
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 34 min. Created on August 8, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - Kobayashi Koichi Style 3Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 3
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 31 min. Created on August 14, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - Kobayashi Koichi Style 4Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 4
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 35 min. Created on August 14, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - Kobayashi Koichi Style 5Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 5
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teachers:
Duan Rong 7p
Guo Juan 5p
Duration: 32 min. Created on August 23, 2008 by Guo Juan 5p. - Kobayashi Koichi Style 6
Kobayashi Koichi Style
Created on August 16, 2009 by Guo Juan 5p.
Lecture 6
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5p - Kobayashi Koichi Style 7
Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 7
Level: any one who loves this openingTeacher: Guo Juan 5p
Time: 29 minutes
Created on August 16, 2009 by Guo Juan 5p. - Kobayashi Koichi Style 8
Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 8
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5pTime: 33 minutes
Created on September 14, 2009 by Guo Juan 5p. - Kobayashi Koichi Style 9
Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 9
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5pDuration: 39 minutes
Created on October 30, 2009 by Guo Juan 5p. - Kobayashi Koichi Style 10
Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 10
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5pDuration: 35 minutes
Created on November 4, 2009 by Guo Juan 5p. - Kobayashi Koichi Style 11
Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 11
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5pDuration: 32 Minutes
Created on November 19, 2009 by Guo Juan 5p. - Kobayashi Koichi Style 12
Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 12
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5pDuration: 35 minutes
Created on November 27, 2009 by Guo Juan 5p. - Kobayashi Koichi Style 13
Kobayashi Koichi Style
Lecture 13
Level: any one who loves this opening
Teacher:
Guo Juan 5pDuration: 29 minutes
This is the last lecture on this subject.
Created on December 20, 2009 by Guo Juan 5p.
- Kobayashi Koichi Style 1Kobayashi Koichi Style
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