From: davies@twics.co.jp
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: August Go News
Date: 1 Sep 92 22:54:02 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan

===================   AUGUST GO NEWS FROM JAPAN   ======================
     August 1: The final game of the Fujitsu Cup matched Otake Hideo, 
who had dominated the opposition in his first four games, against O 
Rissei, who had consistently been playing catch-up. True to form, Otake 
took an early lead and O caught up, but the timing was wrong: O overtook 
Otake before the 50th move, and although he held onto the lead for the 
next 90 moves, eventually he overplayed and Otake won by half a point. 
Otake now has his first world championship. Liu Xiaoguang beat Ma 
Xiaochun to finish third.
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     Five days later Otake scored another triumph by winning his last 
game in the Meijin League, against Komatsu Hideki. Cho Chikun also beat 
Yoda Norimoto, so Otake won the league by a two-game margin, Cho 
finishing second and Yoda third. Rin Kaiho won his final game against 
Iwata Tatsuaki to keep his place in the league for the 30th consecutive 
year. The title match between Otake and Kobayashi Koichi starts 
September 9-10 at the Hotel Okura in Amsterdam.
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     On August 16 Otake triumphed yet again, this time in the final of 
the Ryusei (Dragon-Star) cable television tournament. The game was shown 
live by Japan's 51 cable television stations. The defeated opponent was 
Cho Chikun, last year's Ryusei champion.
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     While Otake was winning the Fujitsu cup, Takemiya Masaki was 
playing Korean Suh Bongsoo in Seoul in the remaining quarter-final game 
of the Ing Cup. By using all three of his overtime periods (purchased at 
a cost of six points under the Ing Time-Purchasing System) Takemiya 
managed to overcome a bad start and snatch the lead. Unfortunately he 
then blundered the game away, so Suh advances into the semi-finals where 
he will encounter Cho Chikun.
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     Later in the month, Takemiya took revenge for this defeat on 
Korea's top player Cho Hunhyun. The game was the final of the Asian TV 
Go Championship. Takemiya has a complete monopoly on this championship: 
it has been held four times and he has won it every time.
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    The fourth game of the Gosei match was played on August 26 at the 
Kanazawa Grand Hotel, site of the 1991 World Amateur Go Championship. 
Kobayashi Koichi beat Kobayashi Satoru by resignation to take the series 
3-1. Having won five years in a row, Kobayashi Koichi will continue to 
be listed as Honorary Gosei even after he loses the title, not that 
there are any signs of that happening soon.
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     The Amateur Honinbo tournament was won this year by Nakazono Seizo. 
In the three-day 65-player knockout event he scored six straight wins, 
beating world amateur Kikuchi Yasuro in round two and five-time amateur 
Honinbo Harada Minoru in the deciding game. Nakazono has now won the 
Amateur Honinbo four times.
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     The first player to gain promotion to 9-dan under the modern Oteai 
system, Fujisawa Hosai, died on August 2 at the age of 73. He was famed 
for playing imitative go, which led to unusual large-scale openings. 
During his career he won the Oza and Judan titles, the Nihon Kiin 
Championship (twice), and three lightning-go championships, and was the 
only player who ever managed to win a best-of-ten match from Go Seigen.
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     (July update) A week before the Fujitsu Cup ended, the fourth 
Tongyang Securities Cup World Baduk Championship began in Seoul, Korea. 
The prize money has been doubled to 100,000,000 won, making this cup 
worth slightly more than Fujitsu's. Korean players, including Cho 
Chikun, clobbered the foreign opposition 9-3 in the first two rounds to 
capture five of the best-eight spots. Some of the strongest Japanese 
players (e.g. Kobayashi and Otake) were not participating, but it was 
still surprising to see the entire Japanese side eliminated except for 
Cho Chikun and Rin Kaiho, neither of whom is playing for Japan.
--------------------- Round 1 -----------------------------------------
Suh Bongsoo (Korea)    beat  Komatsu Hideki (Japan)
Yoda Norimoto (Japan)  beat  Lim Sumkum (Korea)
Chen Linxin (China)    beat  Perng Kinghwa (Taipei)
Kim Sucang (Korea)     beat  Jimmy Cha (USA)
O Kyucheol (Korea)     beat  Moriyama Naoki (Japan)
Kang Hun (Korea)       beat  Vladimir Danek (Europe)
Kim Chuljung (Korea)   beat  Lin Shengshien (Taipei)
Yoo Changhyeok (Korea) beat  Che Zewu (China)
--------------------- Round 2 -----------------------------------------
Rin Kaiho (Taipei)     beat  Suh Bongsoo (Korea)
Nie Weiping (China)    beat  Yoda Norimoto (Japan)
Cho Chikun (Korea)     beat  Chen Linxin (China)
Kim Sucang (Korea)     beat  Takemiya Masaki (Japan)
Cho Hunhyun (Korea)    beat  O Kyucheol (Korea)
Ma Xiaochun (China)    beat  Kang Hun (Korea)
Lee Changho (Korea)    beat  Kim Chuljung (Korea)
Yoo Changhyeok (Korea) beat  Kato Masao (Japan)
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