3rd Daiwa Cup, 2007

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# 3rd Daiwa Cup

Daiwa Cup = Daiwa-Shoken Cup = Daiwa Securities Cup Net Igo Open

## Preliminaries

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
2007-08-07 | Takano Hideki | Yamashiro Hiroshi | W+R | 126 | sgf
2007-08-07 | Miyazawa Goro | O Rissei | W+T | 144 | sgf
2007-08-07 | Hikosaka Naoto | Kanazawa Hideo | W+R | 162 | sgf
2007-08-07 | Anzai Nobuaki | Iguchi Toyohide | B+R | 187 | sgf
2007-08-07 | Nakane Naoyuki | Ryu Shikun | W+R | 230 | sgf
2007-08-14 | Rin Shien | Oba Junya | B+1.5 | 275 | sgf
2007-08-14 | Kurotaki Masanori | Kobayashi Koichi | B+0.5 | 281 | sgf
2007-08-14 | Imamura Yoshiaki | Sakai Maki | B+3.5 | 287 | sgf
2007-08-14 | Ko Iso | Mochizuki Kenichi | B+3.5 | 306 | sgf
2007-08-21 | Mitsunaga Junzo | Mimura Tomoyasu | W+R | 126 | sgf
2007-08-21 | Komatsu Hideki | Kubo Hideo | B+R | 169 | sgf
2007-08-21 | So Yokoku | Tajima Shingo | B+R | 175 | sgf
2007-08-21 | Arimura Hiroshi | Nakano Hironari | W+2.5 | 268 | sgf
2007-08-21 | Ohashi Hirofumi | Yamada Kimio | W+0.5 | 274 | sgf
2007-08-21 | Han Zenki | Nakaonoda Tomomi | W+6.5 | 286 | sgf
2007-08-28 | Kanda Ei | Mizokami Tomochika | W+R | 136 | sgf
2007-08-28 | Sakai Takeshi | Kataoka Satoshi | B+R | 143 | sgf
2007-08-28 | Matsumoto Takehisa | Lee Ishu | B+R | 179 | sgf
2007-08-28 | Rin Kanketsu | Takemiya Masaki | B+0.5 | 248 | sgf
2007-08-28 | Cho Riyu | Kato Atsushi | B+8.5 | 268 | sgf

The preliminaries were played on 2007-08-07,14,21,28 between twenty groups of 3 players and two groups of 2 players, 64 players in all. Each group of 2 or 3 players played a knockout tournament (of 1 or 2 games). Above, we gave 20 of the 22 games in the last round of each. The two missing last rounds are

date | winner | loser
--- | --- | ---
2007-08-14 | Michael Redmond | Shiung Feng
2007-08-14 | Nakamura Shinya | Yamada Shinji

## Tournament

The 22 winners from the preliminaries and the 7 participants other than Cho U in the 2nd Daiwa Tournament (namely Yoda Norimoto (Honinbo), Takao Shinji (Meijin), O Meien (Daiwa Cup), Kono Rin (Tengen), Cho Chikun (Judan), Iyama Yuta, Kim Sujun) play a knockout tournament. The three players that reached the second round of the 2nd Daiwa Tournament get a bye.

3rd Daiwa Cup Tournament
Kono Rin | Kono Rin (B+R) | Ryu Shikun (B+R) | Iyama Yuta (B+5.5) | Iyama Yuta (B+R) | Takao Shinji (W+R)
Cho Riyu
Rin Shien | Ryu Shikun (W+R)
Ryu Shikun
Kanazawa Hideo | Kanazawa Hideo (B+T) | Iyama Yuta (B+R)
So Yokoku
Kurotaki Masanori | Iyama Yuta (B+R)
Iyama Yuta
O Rissei | O Rissei (W+5.5) | Rin Kanketsu (B+5.5) | Rin Kanketsu (W+R)
Imamura Yoshiaki
Yamashiro Hiroshi | Rin Kanketsu (B+2.5)
Rin Kanketsu
Yamada Kimio | Yamada Kimio (W+R) | Yamada Kimio (B+R)
Anzai Nobuaki
O Meien
Cho Chikun | Cho Chikun (W+R) | Cho Chikun (B+R) | Takao Shinji (B+8.5) | Iyama Yuta (B+R)
Nakano Hironari
Mimura Tomoyasu | Mizokami Tomochika (W+R)
Mizokami Tomochika
Nakamura Shinya | Nakamura Shinya (B+4.5) | Takao Shinji (W+R)
Matsumoto Takehisa
Takao Shinji
Kim Sujun | Kim Sujun (B+R) | Kim Sujun (W+R) | Komatsu Hideki (B+1.5)
Nakaonoda Tomomi
Ko Iso | Ko Iso (W+13.5)
Michael Redmond
Komatsu Hideki | Komatsu Hideki (W+T) | Komatsu Hideki (W+2.5)
Sakai Takeshi
Yoda Norimoto

## Final

This year the final was just the last game of the single knockout tournament.

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
2007-12-22 | Iyama Yuta | Takao Shinji | W+R | 252 | sgf

Takao Shinji won with 1-0.