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Razvan Gliga (24 ianuarie 2001) :
Buna ziua,
o stire de pe situl Nihon Ki-in:
Westerners at the
Nihon Ki-in
Western members
of the Nihon Ki-in scored 2-1 last week. Picking up
wins were Michael Redmond 9-dan, who defeated Akiyama Jiro 7-dan (W)
by half a point in the preliminary round of the 26th Kisei tournament,
and Catalin Taranu 4-dan, who beat Inagaki Yo 3-dan (B) by 2.5 points
in the first preliminary round of the 27th Meijin tournament. On the
debit side was Hans Pietsch 4-dan,
who lost by 1.5 points to O Innin 4-dan (B).
Dan Jerghiuta (10 iulie 2001) :
Former
WAGC champion turns pro
In the past, winning
the World Amateur Go Championship was often a prelude to turning professional
for Chinese players. Recently, Koreans have begun to imitate them. Now,
for the first time, a Japanese player has followed in their footsteps.
He is Sakai Hideyuki, who won the 22nd WAGC in 2000. Sakai had sat out
the Japanese WAGC qualifying tournament for this year's WAGC, as he
was going to be too busy as an intern. However, after he secured his
license as a physician in spring this year, he found that he was unable
to put his go aspirations behind him. "I didn't want to end my
go life without really testing myself,' he said. Ironically, the fact
that he is of professional strength (he has beaten a professional 9-dan
in an even game) meant that amateur tournaments were not a challenge
for him, so he decided to turn professional. He applied to the Kansai
Ki-in for professional status and this was granted. This month he will
play a trial game, on the basis of which his rank will be decided. That
sounds as if he is not going to have to start out as a 1-dan, which
will help him a little in making up for lost time. Sakai turned 28 this
year; one of his childhood friends and rivals was Yuki Satoshi, who
is already 9-dan. He will probably make his debut in September, and
we will keep readers informed of his progress.
Westerners
at the Nihon Ki-in
Below are the results
of Western professionals in the second half of June.
Hans Pietsch 4-dan (W) defeated Kirimoto Kazuo by 9 points in the Oteai
(20 June).
Catalin Taranu 5-dan (W) defeated Inagaki Yo 3-dan om the first preliminary
round of the Okan title (27 June).
Michael Redmond 9-dan (W) lost to Kamimura Haruo 9-dan in a preliminary
round of the Gosei title (28 June).
Promotions
The following players
have earned promotions in the Oteai (all dated to 29 June):
To 9-dan: Oya Koichi
To 5-dan: Matsumoto Takehisa, Kurotaki Masaki
To 3-dan: Rin Kanketsu, Shudo Shun
Dan Jerghiuta (13 iulie 2001) :
O
Meien evens Honinbo match
For
the third time in the 56th Honinbo title match, the defending champion,
O Meien, has caught up with the challenger, Cho U, and evened the score.
That is to say, Black has now won six games in a row.
The sixth game was played in the City of Hanamaki
in Iwate
Prefecture on 10 & 11 July. Playing black, O forced Cho to resign
after 237 moves, thus evening the score at 3-3. The game ended at 7:07
pm on the second day; of their time allowances of eight hours each,
O had two minutes left and Cho 29.
O seemed to take the lead on the first day when he
built excellent centre thickness in the initial fighting. Cho's efforts
to catch up on the second day made the game close, but he never usurped
the lead. O actually was far enough ahead to survive a small slip-up
in the endgame.
The deciding game will be played at the Naeba Prince
Hotel, Yuzawa, Niigata Prefecture on 18 & 19 July.
This is the first time for seven years that the Honinbo
title match has gone to a seventh game. If black manages to win the
last game, it will probably (we have to check this) be the first time
ever that the same colour has won every game in a best-of-seven, In
this year's Judan best-of-five, white won the first four games but lost
the last. At the time, we predicted this, but this time we are sure
that the player who draws black in the nigiri for the final Honinbo
game will be happy. So far, both Cho and O have been very consistent
in keeping hold of the initiative granted to Black by having the first
move. In fact, the games have mainly been comfortable wins for Black,
so it will be very hard to buck this trend in the final game.
Rin
becomes Meijin challenger
The
phoenix-like Rin Kaiho is making another Meijin challenge ? at the age
of 59. In his last game in the 26th Meijin league, Rin, playing white,
managed to defeat Komatsu Hideki 9-dan by the narrowest margin, just
half a point, and so ended the league with a 6-2 score. On the same
day, 12 July, Cho Chikun, the only other player still with a chance
to catch up with Rin, lost to Cho Sonjin 9-dan. Playing white, Sonjin
beat Chikun by 6.5 points. As this was Chikun's third loss, Rin became
the only player with just two losses, so the other unplayed games in
the league became irrelevant.
As a result of last week's games, Komatsu dropped
to 2-5 and so faces certain demotion. The two Chos are both on 4-3 and
so should keep their places regardless of what happens in the final
round.
Rin dominated the old Meijin title, sponsored by the
Yomiuri Newspaper, winning it seven times. When he first won it, defeating
Sakata Eio in 1965, he set a still unbroken record as the youngest tournament
Meijin, at 23. He also won the new Meijin title, sponsored by the Asahi
Newspaper, once. He last challenged for the Meijin title seven years
ago.
Since Rin's victory was decided so early, he will
have around two
months to prepare for the title match with Yoda Norimoto. The date of
the
first game has not yet been decided, but it is usually played towards
the
middle of September.
Kisei
leagues
One game in each
league was played on 12 July. In the A league, Miyazawa Goro 9-dan continued
his winning ways of the first league, defeating Mimura Tomoyasu 9-dan
by resignation (Miyazawa had white) to take the league lead with a 2-0
score. Mimura drops to 1-1.
In the B league, Ishida Yoshio, who, like Miyazawa
last year, just missed out on a league victory, also went to 2-0. Also
playing white, he eked out a more narrow victory, defeating Ishida Atsushi
8-dan by just half a point. The latter is now 0-2, so his focus will
no longer be on winning the league but on keeping his league place.
Mihai
Lita (19
iulie 2001) :
Eduard Hirjoghe (10 septembrie 2001)
:
Defending champion
wins first Meijin game
The first game of the 26th Meijin title match was held at the Hotel
Lotte in Seoul on 4 and 5 September. The challenger is the 59-year-old
Rin Kaiho, who won his first Meijin title before the defending title
holder, Yoda Norimoto (aged 35), was born. Rin lost the nigiri, but
played an excellent game with white. Towards the end of the middle game,
he had the lead, but because of this declined to make an aggressive
cut that would have almost certainly clinched the game. Under the pressure
of byo-yomi, he then made two crucial mistakes in the endgame and so
permitted Yoda to stage an upset.
After 273 moves, the latter won by 2.5 points.
By the end of the game, both players were down to the last minute of
byo-yomi (the final ten minutes of the eight-hour time allowance is
allotted to byo-yomi).
The second game will be played in Iwamizawa City, Hokkaido, on 19 and
20 September.
(;SZ[19]FF[3]
PW[Rin Kaiho]
WR[9d]
PB[Yoda Norimoto]
BR[9d]
EV[26th Meijin Final]
RO[Game 1]
DT[2001-09-05]
PC[Hotel Lotte, Seoul]
KM[5.5]
RE[B+2.5]
US[GoGoD95]
;B[qd];W[dp];B[pp];W[dd];B[oc];W[qj];B[cn];W[fq];B[bp];W[cm];B[dm];W
[cl]
;B[dl];W[bn];B[co];W[cj];B[dk];W[ci];B[cq];W[dq];B[bo];W[iq];B[qh];W
[qm]
;B[qo];W[fc];B[jd];W[pc];B[pd];W[ph];B[pg];W[pi];B[og];W[nq];B[np];W
[mp]
;B[no];W[pr];B[pk];W[qg];B[qk];W[qf];B[rk];W[ni];B[rh];W[ri];B[re];W
[rg]
;B[nk];W[mg];B[ip];W[hq];B[oq];W[or];B[mq];W[nr];B[lq];W[qq];B[jp];W
[rp]
;B[cf];W[cd];B[ef];W[dg];B[df];W[fh];B[fg];W[gh];B[eh];W[ei];B[dh];W
[ch]
;B[be];W[bd];B[gd];W[gc];B[hd];W[oe];B[pf];W[me];B[od];W[kj];B[lk];W
[gg]
;B[gf];W[jl];B[lj];W[ki];B[li];W[kh];B[mh];W[ng];B[nh];W[pe];B[oh];W
[qe]
;B[nf];W[ne];B[mf];W[ke];B[lf];W[nc];B[nb];W[mb];B[mc];W[nd];B[ob];W
[kd]
;B[jg];W[lb];B[ii];W[ig];B[fi];W[cg];B[eg];W[ej];B[ih];W[gj];B[hg];W
[hl]
;B[ik];W[il];B[kk];W[jn];B[lo];W[rn];B[en];W[fj];B[hc];W[cr];B[br];W
[dr]
;B[bm];W[bl];B[an];W[hb];B[ib];W[gb];B[kc];W[lc];B[jq];W[jc];B[ic];W
[hk]
;B[jk];W[kf];B[kg];W[ie];B[fd];W[ed];B[ad];W[ac];B[ae];W[bb];B[ro];W
[so]
;B[qn];W[rm];B[pm];W[lm];B[mm];W[jb];B[ja];W[kb];B[oi];W[hf];B[hh];W
[gi]
;B[he];W[if];B[bg];W[bh];B[ag];W[ln];B[mn];W[mr];B[ck];W[bk];B[gp];W
[hp]
;B[go];W[gq];B[ir];W[do];B[dn];W[kr];B[jr];W[kq];B[lp];W[lr];B[ho];W
[hr]
;B[ep];W[kp];B[eo];W[fr];B[eq];W[er];B[ko];W[jo];B[io];W[cs];B[id];W
[bs]
;B[qp];W[rq];B[pj];W[qi];B[bj];W[aj];B[al];W[bi];B[ia];W[ha];B[rd];W
[ar]
;B[bq];W[pq];B[op];W[fe];B[ee];W[ka];B[ff];W[fm];B[fl];W[gm];B[in];W
[kn]
;B[mo];W[kl];B[ec];W[eb];B[le];W[ld];B[im];W[ll];B[ml];W[ql];B[pl];W
[na]
;B[oa];W[ma];B[ce];W[of];B[lg];W[sf];B[se];W[ah];B[hs];W[gs];B[ks];W
[ak]
;B[am];W[ls];B[hj];W[hi];B[ij];W[fk];B[el];W[fp];B[fo];W[gl];B[jm];W
[aq]
;B[ap];W[as];B[rf];W[sg];B[is];W[sh];B[rl];W[sn];B[js]
)
Eduard Hirjoghe (25 iunie 2002) :
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