Daiwa Shoken Cup

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Daiwa Shoken Cup is sponsored by the [ext] Daiwa Securities Group Inc. (大和証券グループ本社, Daiwa Shōken Gurūpu Honsha), one of the three largest brokerages in Japan.

The tournament consists of four concurrent round robin tournaments of four players each for a total of sixteen players.

1st 2006 Takao Shinji Cho U 2-0
2nd 2007 O Meien Yoda Norimoto 2-0
3rd 2007 Takao Shinji Iyama Yuta 1-0
4th 2008 Kono Rin Kobayashi Koichi 1-0
5th 2009 Kono Rin Iyama Yuta 1-0
6th 2010 Iyama Yuta Cho U 1-0

Blake: There has to be more information on this tournament. Is it a lightning tournament? It seems to have some sort of invitation mechanism, so that major title-holders are seeded into the final tournament and don't play in the league. According to one of the news sites, Takao (Meijin), Cho Chikun (10d), Kono Rin (Tengen), and Cho U (Gosei) were in the final tournament but didn't play in the leagues.

O was the only non-seeded player to pass the first round. He beat Kono Rin (W+R), Cho U (B+3.5), and Yoda (W+3.5, B+9.5).

valerio: It seems to be a Internet Tournament (10' for player + byo-yomi).

Hyperpapeterie: Iyama Yuta's page lists him as winning the Daiwa Grand Champion Cup in 2008, but Takao Shinji also won a Daiwa Cup in 2008 (listed at [ext] http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/news.html). What's the relation of those two?

valerio: Daiwa Grand Champion is a "super" tournament, including Title holders, winners of previous Daiwa editions, first two women from 1st Female Daiwa and winner of Amateur Daiwa. The 2nd edition starts on 2009-01-10 (view [ext] http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/match/2009/01/110_4.html)

valerio: round robin was used only for preliminaries of first two editions.


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