Women's Saikyo Finals

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# Women's Saikyo Finals

The Women's Saikyo tournament (Female Saikyo, Women's Strongest Player, Tokyo Seimitsu Cup) has been held 10 times, first in 1999, last in 2008.

Komi was 5.5 in the first four editions, and 6.5 in the last six. In the last edition each player had 1 hour time, plus 60 seconds/move. Maybe this was 1 hour plus 30 seconds/move earlier.

The tournaments were knockout tournaments, starting with 32 players (but 16 in the last year). In the last year, the final was a best-of-three match, earlier just a single game. Here we give the finals. More details for each year are given via the link in the first column.

# | year | winner | opponent | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | 1999 | Shinkai Hiroko | Yashiro Kumiko | 1
2 | 2000 | Kato Tomoko | Aoki Kikuyo | 1
3 | 2001 | Aoki Kikuyo | Yoshida Mika | 1
4 | 2002 | Okada Yumiko | Umezawa Yukari | 1
5 | 2003 | Suzuki Ayumi | Nakazawa Ayako | 1
6 | 2004 | Shinkai Hiroko | Okada Yumiko | 1
7 | 2005 | Kobayashi Izumi | Konishi Kazuko | 1
8 | 2006 | Xie Yimin | Konishi Kazuko | 1
9 | 2007 | Suzuki Ayumi | Aoki Kikuyo | 1
10 | 2008 | Kato Keiko | Xie Yimin | 1 2

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1999-11-12 | Shinkai Hiroko | Yashiro Kumiko | B+4.5 | 271 | sgf
2000-12-05 | Aoki Kikuyo | Kato Tomoko | W+1.5 | 293 | sgf
2001-12-03 | Aoki Kikuyo | Yoshida Mika | B+R | 175 | sgf
2002-12-16 | Umezawa Yukari | Okada Yumiko | W+8.5 | 255 | sgf
2003-12-22 | Suzuki Ayumi | Nakazawa Ayako | B+11.5 | 305 | sgf
2004-12-07 | Okada Yumiko | Shinkai Hiroko | W+12.5 | 275 | sgf
2005-12-08 | Konishi Kazuko | Kobayashi Izumi | W+3.5 | 287 | sgf
2006-12-25 | Konishi Kazuko | Xie Yimin | W+R | 256 | sgf
2007-11-26 | Aoki Kikuyo | Suzuki Ayumi | W+1.5 | 257 | sgf
2008-08-11 | Xie Yimin | Kato Keiko | W+R | 234 | sgf
2008-08-25 | Kato Keiko | Xie Yimin | B+R | 175 | sgf