In this game, like previous games, the NHK way consists of a move that has a thinking time of up to 30 seconds and in addition, there are 10 reserves of one minute thinking times. Komi is 6.5moku. . If there is a mistake in the procedure, the penalty is 3 moku a move.

Moreover, this championship was broadcast live via the internet on Go salon Pandanet available to more than 100 countries including Japan.

In addition, Ricoh Ltd. who sponsored the championship provided paper copies of all the games to the people in the audience. All the paper was Ricoh recycled paper printed by the Richo Imagio Neo copier.

Kikuyo AOKI 8-dan/Hideo OTAKE Meiyo Gosei	Yumiko OKADA Strongest Women Player U CHO Honinbo/Oza
Kumiko YASHIRO 5-dan/Shikun RYU 9-dan	Akiko TSUKUDA 4-dan/Kaiho RIN Meiyo Tengen

Narumi OSAWA Women's Kakusei/Satoshi YUKI 9-dan Yoko INORI 5-dan/Chikun HONINBO the 25th

Izumi KOBAYASHI Women's Honinbo Keigo YAMASHITA Kisei		Tomoko KATO 5-dan/Sonjin CHO 9-dan

Well, the games were nearly over, and all the games were a hotly contested matches. Unlike the last time, there was no game that ended with a single mistake.

Kumiko YASHIRO 5-dan/Shikun RYU 9-dan vs Akiko TSUKUDA 4-dan/Kaiho RIN Meiyo Tengen

The results of the quarterfinals were as follows.

WINNER LOSER (Black) VS (White) (Black) VS (White) (White) VS (Black) (White) VS (Black)

The first match of the quarterfinals that ended was the game between Ms.Yashiro and Mr. Ryu and Ms. Tukuda and Mr. Rin.

A game is finished and it smiles Kumiko YASHIRO 5-dan/Shikun RYU 9-dan

Mr.Ryu: "Also, this time, I couldn't follow Ms.Yashiro's decisive decision making. She makes moves that I would usually be afraid of. However, all I had to do was follow her lead."

It looks back upon a game Akiko TSUKUDA 4-dan/Kaiho RIN Meiyo Tengen