Female Strongest

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The Japanese Female Saikyo tournament. It was discontinued in 2008.

Also known as the Tokyo Seimitsu Cup, or the Female Strongest Player tournament.

The winner of this tournament plays a match against a Westerner each year: the opponent is decided in a playoff between an American and a European representative selected at the US Go Congress and the European Go Congress, respectively.

See also: [ext] http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/japan/w_saikyo.html

Winners and defeated finalists
Ed. Year Winner Runner-up
1st 1999 Shinkai Hiroko Yashiro Kumiko
2nd 2000 Kato Tomoko Aoki Kikuyo
3rd 2001 Aoki Kikuyo Yoshida Mika
4th 2002 Okada Yumiko Umezawa Yukari
5th 2003 Suzuki Ayumi Nakazawa Ayako
6th 2004 Shinkai Hiroko Okada Yumiko
7th 2005 Kobayashi Izumi Konishi Kazuko
8th 2006 Xie Yimin Konishi Kazuko
9th 2007 Suzuki Ayumi Aoki Kikuyo
10th 2008 Kato Keiko Xie Yimin

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