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Oteai
Oteai is not a big title tournament like the others on the Japanese go scene. It is the tournament in which Japanese professionals earn their ranking. This explains why some players who are very successful in the title matches can still have lower than 9 dan rankings. It means they are either less successful in the Oteai or not playing since very long in it. Some recent examples are Ryu Shikun? and Yamashita Keigo, who beat 9 dan opponents for top 7 titles in recent years, all the while relatively modest 7 and 6 dan ranks. The challenger for the 2001 Honinbo, Cho U?, is currently 6 dan. --Stefan This is a copy of the living page "Oteai" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |