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31 August

Iyama was third place in World Go Championship-The Fujitsu Cup

  The 24th World Go Championship-The Fujitsu Cup was held in The Nihon Ki-in in Osaka from 10 August till 14 August 2011.
  It was postponed from April to above schedule due to the earthquake disaster.
  The winner of the tournament is a Korean youngster, Park Jeong-Hwan who wins against Qiu Jun from China who was third at the previous Fujitsu Cup tournament.
  Iyama shows us his potential to become a world champion in near future.

The 24rd World Go Championship  (sponsor:Fujitsu/The Yomiuri Newspaper)
Player Round1 Round2 Q-Final S-Final Final
Ogata Masaki ( Japan ) PARK
8/10
PARK
8/11
PARK
8/12
PARK
8/13
PARK
8/14
PARK Jeong-Hwan ( Korea )
CHEN Shi-Yuan ( C・TAIPEI ) CHEN
8/10
Cho U ( Japan )
PIAO Wen-Yao ( China ) PIAO
8/10
PIAO
8/11
HO Heo-Young ( Korea )
Hane Naoki ( Japan ) Hane
8/10
Seto Taiki ( Japan )
TOU Jia-Xi ( China ) TOU
8/10
Sakai
8/11
Iyama
8/12
CHANG Hao ( China )
LEE Young-Goo ( Korea ) Sakai
8/10
Sakai Hideyuki ( Japan )
CHOI Chul-Han ( Korea ) CHOI
8/10
Iyama
8/11
Zhi-Yuan LIU ( NORTH AMERICA )
GU Li ( China ) Iyama
8/10
Iyama Yuta ( Japan )
O Meien ( Japan ) QIU
8/10
QIU
8/11
QIU
8/12
QIU
8/13
QIU Jun ( China )
Cho Chikun ( Japan ) Cho
8/10
Yamashita Keigo ( Japan )
Fujii Syuya ( Japan ) Fujii
8/10
LEE
8/11
Yamada Kimio ( Japan )
LEE Sae-Dol (Korea ) LEE
8/10
Takao Shinji ( Japan )
KANG Yoo-Taek ( Korea ) XIE
8/10
XIE
8/11
JIANG
8/12
XIE He ( China )
KONG Jie ( China ) KONG
8/10
Yuki Satoshi ( Japan )
Fernando AGUILAR ( LATIN AMERICA ) JIANG
8/10
JIANG
8/11
JIANG Wei-Jie ( China )
Artem KACHANOVSKY ( EUROPE ) KIM
8/10
KIM Ji-Seok ( Korea )

Third-place play-off    ◆Aug 14, 2011
Winner Result Loser
Iyama Yuta (Japan) White won by resign JIANG Wei-Jie (China)

Gosei title: Who won the final game, Sakai or Hane?

  With the score level at 2-all, the fifth game was held at The Kansai Kiin on 29 August.
  Hane won the final game against Sakai and Hane gets his first Gosei title.

Full results:   Game 1 (23 June). Sakai (W) by resignation.
Game 2 (10 July). Sakai (B) by 1.5 points
Game 3 (29 July). Hane (B) by 3.5 points
Game 4 (18 August). Hane (W) by 6.5 points.
Game 5 (29 August). Hane(W) by resignation.

Iyama becomes the challenger of Tengen

  In the play-off to decide the challenger for the 37th Tengen title, Iyama Meijin defeated O Meien 9dan and made his first challenge for a title. The play-off between the two to decide the challenger to Yuki Satoshi Tengen was held at the Nihon Ki-in on 25 August; taking white, Iyama forced a resignation. The first game will be held on 24 October 2011.

Player 1st 2nd Q-Final S-Final Final
Ogata Masaki Ogata
12/9
Murakawa
1/13
Yamada
3/10
Yamashita
3/31
O Meien
6/23
Iyama
8/25
Nakamura Shinya
Murakawa Daisuke
Kono Rin Yamada
12/9
Yamada Takuji
Rin Kanketsu Yamashita
1/27
Yamashita
2/24
Yamashita Keigo
Yamashiro Hiroshi Yamashiro
1/27
Hane Naoki
Yoda Norimoto Yoda
12/16
Cho U
5/5
O M
5/19
Kataoka Satoshi
Cho U Cho U
12/16
Sekiyama Toshimichi
Matsuoka Hideki O M
12/9
O M
3/10
O Meien
Sakai Hideyuki Kono T
2/3
Kono Takashi
Mimura Tomoyasu Mimura
1/20
Mimura
4/7
Iyama
5/5
Iyama
6/30
Shuto Shun
Furuya Yutaka Furuya
2/17
Matsumoto Takehisa
Yata Naoki Iyama
1/6
Iyama
2/28
Iyama Yuta
Nakano Yasuhiro Nakano
1/20
Cho Riyu
Takahara Shuji Miyazawa
1/13
Kim
3/24
Kim
6/9
Miyazawa Goro
Kim Sujun Kim
1/13
Kuwamoto Shinpei
Hikosaka Naoto Komatsu
2/24
Komatsu
4/21
Komatsu Hideki
Goto Shungo Goto
3/31
Ohashi Naruya Oba
12/23
Oba Junya



Europe Go Congress in Bordeaux

  The Nihon Kiin sent Masaki Takemiya 9p, Michael Redmond 9p, Chizu Kobayashi 5p, Hsieh Yi Min 5p and Narumi Osawa5p to The 55th Europe Go Congress 2011 which was held in Bordeaux, France. They all stayed in Bordeaux from 27th July till 2 August 2011 in Bordeaux to hold Master Course and big simultaneous games for charity for victims of Tohoku-Pacific Ocean earthquake.
  For more detailed report, you can get some articles and photos in 12th September issue of Shukango (Weekly Go Newspaper) and October issue 2011 of Go world (monthly Go magazine).
  If you have iPhone or iPad, you can also get digital version of above publications.

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