report
First, Mr. Ichiro Yoshikuni, Chairman of the Japan Pair Go Association, delivered a speech.
Opening ceremony greeting
Mr. Ichiro Yoshikuni, Chairman of the Japan Pair Go Association(up)
Mr. Seigen Go 9-dan, Chief referee(right)
Mr. Yoshikuni: "Pair Go is popular in Europe.
In the championship in Europe, besides there being a one on one game, there are pair games as well.
This might be based on the culture that people in Europe enjoy things as a couple - a man and a woman, and as married couples.
Let's enjoy pair Go hereafter as well. I'm eager to see Go spread out through pair Go activities."
Next, chief referee 9-dan Mr. Seigen Go gave a speech.
Mr. Go: "Pair Go has already established itself as an international game. I am sure that this game will promote international goodwill. Everyone, please enjoy pair Go in the future as well."
The guests who attend the opening ceremony
In addition, Mr. Hiroshi Hamada, a chairman of this championship and sponsor company representative as a chairman of Ricoh Corporation and Mr. Hisao Taki, a committee member of this championship and the executive officer of the Japan Pair Go Association, were introduced. After these introductions, Mr.Go declared the opening of this year's championship.
There were 32 people, 16 pairs, were decided by a lottery at the meeting on October 7, at Hotel Metropolitan EDMONTO, Iidabashi, Tokyo.
(left)
Izumi KOBAYASHI Women's Honinbo/Keigo YAMASHITA Kisei
(right)
Akiko IZAWA 3-dan/Koichi KOBAYASHI 9-dan		 (left)
Kaori CHINEN Women's Kisei/Naoki HANE Tengen
(right)
Mika YOSHIDA 8-dan/Yoshio ISHIDA 9-dan
(left)
Tomoko OGAWA 6-dan/Masao KATO 9-dan
(right)
Kumiko YASHIRO 5-dan/Shikun RYU 9-dan		 (left)
Yumiko OKADA Strongest Women Player/U CHO Honinbo/Oza
(right)
Yoko INORI 5-dan/Chikun HONINBO the 25th
(left)
Yukari UMEZAWA 5-dan/Rissei O Judan
(right)
Narumi OSAWA Women's Kakusei/Satoshi YUKI 9-dan		 (left)
Terumi KOYAMA 5-dan/Yasuhiro NAKANO 8-dan
(right)
Kikuyo AOKI 8-dan/Hideo OTAKE Meiyo Gosei
(left)
Kazuko KONISHI 7-dan/Meien O 9-dan
(right)
Akiko TSUKUDA 4-dan/Kaiho RIN Meiyo Tengen		 (left)
Kazuko SUGIUCHI 8-dan/Norimoto YODA Meijin/Gosei
(right)
Tomoko KATO 5-dan/Sonjin CHO 9-dan
As you already know, Ms. Inori and Chikun Honinbo the 25th pair was the winner last year and two years ago.
As the rule of this championship, winner pairs can attend the next championship as the same pair, however, if the pair win a second time, the pair has to be dismissed and take the lottery of pair matching.
Therefore, Ms. Inori and Chikun Honinbo the 25th had to join the lottery. Well, surprisingly, they became a pair again.
It will be interesting if the pair would be the winner this year as well.
Yoko INORI 5-dan/Chikun HONINBO the 25th vs Yumiko OKADA Strongest Women Player/U CHO Honinbo/Oza
The rule of competition in the NHK way is that all games are played on even (tagaisen) and the komi, that is our focal points, is 6.5 moku. From the first move, a move can take thinking time of up to 30 seconds and on top of this, there are ten reserves of one minute thinking time.
The hall scenery in a game
In the first competition, a combination of players is based on a lottery. In the second, a winning pair competes against a winning pair, a losing pair competes against a losing pair. The four winning pairs of two consecutive games will play in a quarterfinal. The pairs who lose both the first and second rounds will be disqualified for the tournament.
The rest of the eight pairs that have a record of one win and one loss will play based on 9X9 line board. The winning four pairs will go ahead to a quarterfinal with two consecutive winners on December 13.
Kazuko KONISHI 7-dan/Meien O 9-dan vs Akiko TSUKUDA 4-dan/Kaiho RIN Meiyo Tengen
Kikuyo AOKI 8-dan/Hideo OTAKE Meiyo Gosei vs Terumi KOYAMA 5-dan/Yasuhiro NAKANO 8-dan
Tomoko KATO 5-dan/Sonjin CHO 9-dan vs Kazuko SUGIUCHI 8-dan/Norimoto YODA Meijin/Gosei
Mika YOSHIDA 8-dan/Yoshio ISHIDA 9-dan vs
Kaori CHINEN Women's Kisei/Naoki HANE Tengen
Izumi KOBAYASHI Women's Honinbo/Keigo YAMASHITA Kisei vs
Akiko IZAWA 3-dan/Koichi KOBAYASHI 9-dan
Narumi OSAWA Women's Kakusei/Satoshi YUKI 9-dan vs Yukari UMEZAWA 5-dan/Rissei O Judan
outline players topics report games index