2nd Daiwa Cup, 2006/2007

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# 2nd Daiwa Cup

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

## Preliminaries

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
2006-12-11 | Anzai Nobuaki | Mizokami Tomochika | B+R | 179 | sgf
2006-12-19 | Komatsu Hideki | O Rissei | B+1.5 | 285 | sgf
2006-12-19 | Ko Iso | Ogata Masaki | B+R | 289 | sgf
2006-12-11 | Yamashiro Hiroshi | Han Zenki | B+3.5 | 218 | sgf
2006-12-12 | Endo Yoshifumi | So Yokoku | W+R | 114 | sgf
2006-12-12 | Nakaonoda Tomomi | Yamada Kimio | W+R | 236 | sgf
2006-12-12 | Kanazawa Hideo | Ryu Shikun | W+R | 252 | sgf
2006-12-15 | Michael Redmond | Kato Atsushi | B+R | 141 | sgf
2006-12-15 | Matsumoto Takehisa | Hane Naoki | B+R | 197 | sgf
2006-12-15 | Yamada Takuji | Mimura Tomoyasu | W+R | 266 | sgf
2006-12-19 | Rin Kaiho | Nakano Hironari | W+0.5 | 269 | sgf

The 11 winners, together with Kim Sujun, Kobayashi Satoru, O Meien, Yoda Norimoto, Iyama Yuta, the participants of the previous Tournament (non title-holders), play in four 4-person leagues.

## League A

# | player | result | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1. | Anzai Nobuaki | 1-2 |  |  | B+0.5 | W+R
2. | Kim Sujun | 2-1 | W+R |  |  |
3. | Yamashiro Hiroshi | 2-1 |  | B+R |  |
4. | Kobayashi Satoru | 1-2 |  | W+R | B+R |

Kim Sujun wins.

## League B

# | player | result | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1. | Komatsu Hideki | 2-1 |  |  |  | W+R
2. | Yamada Kimio | 1-2 | B+R |  | W+R |
3. | Matsumoto Takehisa | 1-2 | W+R |  |  |
4. | O Meien | 2-1 |  | W+6.5 | W+R |

O Meien wins.

## League C

# | player | result | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1. | Yoda Norimoto | 3-0 |  |  | W+13.5 | W+5.5
2. | Ko Iso | 1-2 | B+R |  | B+R |
3. | Nakano Hironari | 2-1 |  |  |  |
4. | Ryu Shikun | 0-3 |  | B+4.5 | B+8.5 |

Yoda Norimoto wins.

## League D

# | player | result | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1. | Iyama Yuta | 3-0 |  |  |  | W+R
2. | Mimura Tomoyasu | 2-1 | B+T |  |  | W+T
3. | So Yokoku | 0-3 | B+R | B+R |  |
4. | Michael Redmond | 1-2 |  |  | W+R |

Iyama Yuta wins.

## Tournament

Four title holders and four winners of the four leagues play a knockout tournament. The final is a best-of-three.

Title holders: Takao Shinji (Honinbo), Kono Rin (Tengen), Cho U (Meijin), Cho Chikun (Judan).

2nd Daiwa Cup Tournament
O Meien | O Meien (W+R) | O Meien (B+3.5)
Kono Rin
Cho U | Cho U (W+1.5)
Iyama Yuta
Yoda Norimoto | Yoda Norimoto (W+R) | Yoda Norimoto (B+R)
Cho Chikun
Takao Shinji | Takao Shinji (B+4.5)
Kim Sujun

## Final

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
2007-03-24 | Yoda Norimoto | O Meien | W+3.5 | 310 | sgf
2007-03-31 | O Meien | Yoda Norimoto | B+9.5 | 265 | sgf

O Meien won with 2-0.