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31 May


31 May

15-year-old Boy Won a Title!

  The 4th Okage cup was held from 15th and 16th May 2013 in Mie prefecture.
  In the final of the 4th Okage cup, Ichiriki Ryo 3-dan pro (B) defeats Anzai Nobuaki 6-dan pro by resignation after 225 moves. He won his first Okage cup title. Anzai could not achieve the third consecutive Okage cup title.
  Ichiriki became a pro in 2011 when he was thirteen years old.

Honinbo Title Match Begins: Iyama v.s. Takao

  The first game of the 68th Honinbo title match (best-of-seven series) was played in Shimane prefecture on 16 and 17 May 2013. (Shimane is a well known place where Honinbo Dosaku was born.) Iyama (W) beat Takao Shinji 9-dan pro by 4.5 points after 266 moves. Iyama made a good start to defend Honinbo.

Schedule of the Honinbo title match
  Date Place
Game1 16 and 17 May Ota-shi Shimane prefecture
Game2 28 and 29 May Kitakyushu-shi Fukuoka prefecture
Game3 5 and 6 June Kushiro-shi Hokaido
Game4 17 and 18 June Shiraishi-shi Miyagi prefecture
Game5 24 and 25 June Fukida-shi Osaka-Fu
Game6 10 and 11 July Toba-shi Mie prefecture
Game7 17 and 18 July Hatano-shi Kanagawa prefecture

Japan Go National Team

  Please be informed that the Nihon Ki-in has set up a ‘National Team’ to unify a team and to let the players make better performance at international pro matches.
 

Please be advised the members of the team as follows:
Head Coach : Yamashiro Hiroshi 9-dan pro (vice-president of the Nihon Ki-in)
Coaches : Cho U 9-dan pro, Takao Shinji 9-dan pro, Cho Birei 8-dan pro
Team Members :  
 <Mens >
Iyama Yuta Yamashita Keigo Yuki Satoshi Cho U
Hane Naoki Takao Shinji O Meien Ryu Shikun
Kono Rin Mizokami Tomochika Seto Taki Murakawa Daisuke
Uchida Shuhei Anzai Nobuaki Shida Tatsuya Fujita Akihiko
Kanazawa Makoto Suzuki Shinji Terayama Rei Ichiriki Ryo
 <Women >
Hsieh Yi Min Aoki Kikuyo Yoshida Mika Kato Keiko
Suzuki Ayumi Mukai Chiaki Chinen Kaori Osawa Narumi
Okuda Aya Ishii Akane    
* Note : Those who are under twenty-year-old pros may also be qualified to the members of the national team to get trained.

New Insei

  Jonas Welticke, a 17-year-old German high school student, started insei at the Nihon Ki-in Tokyo from 11th May 2013.
  Having won 10 out of 11 matches in the first week, he made a good start to get promoted to the D class.

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