Toyota-Denso Cup
The International Go Federation Toyota & Denso Cup - World Go Oza is the newest of the world go championships.
It is intended to be held every two years. Tournament history and results may be found at http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/tc.html. Tournament rules are also available
here. The winner's prize is ¥30,000,000 plus a luxury car.
The event is a 32-player knockout tournament, leading up to a best of three final match (from 2005 onward).
Previous winners and defeated finalists:
1st 2003 Yi Ch'ang-ho (d. Chang Hao) 2nd 2005 Yi Se-tol (d. Chang Hao 2-1) 3rd 2006 Yi Se-tol (d. Cho U 2-1) 4th? 2008 To be determined
Qualifying Tournaments, 2008
Japan http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/tc.html
Seeded Players: Cho U 9p, Takao Shinji 9p, Yamashita Keigo 9p
Qualifiers: Hane Naoki 9p, Yamada Kimio 9p, Ogata Masaki 9p, Imamura Toshiya 9p, Hikosaka Naoto 9p, Kono Rin 9p, Kimu Sujun 9p, Yoda Norimoto 9p
China ?
Korea ?
Taiwan http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/tc.html
Winner: Zhou Junxun 9p
Africa http://www.sagoclubs.co.za/saga/sa-open/2008/ (Cape Town, South Africa)
9th February - 10th February
Winner: Victor Chow 7d
North America http://www.oza2008.com/ (Baltimore/Los Angeles, USA)
19th January - 20th January
Winners: Jie Li 7d, Jiang Mingjiu 7p
South America http://www.geocities.com/iberogo07/ (Quito, Ecuador)
12th October - 14th October (07)
Winner: Fernando Aguilar 7d
Europe http://www.suomigo.net/wiki/EuropeanGoOza2008 (EGC, Netherlands)
30th January - 3rd February
Winners: Cristian Pop 7d, Ilya Shikshin 7d, Alexandre Dinerchtein 3p
Oceania http://www.australiango.asn.au/Events.php#Toyota-Denso (Brisbane, Australia)
18th January - 20th January
Winner: Joanne Jiajia Missingham? 7d
Asia (excl. China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan) http://www.weiqi.org.sg/oza2008/indexe.asp (Singapore, Singapore)
20th March - 24th March
Winner:
Yang Shi Hai 8p
Qualifying Tournaments, 2006
Africa http://math.sun.ac.za/~go/?page_id=518
(Stellenbosch, South Africa)
North America http://www.usgo.org/oza/oza2006/
South America TorneoIberoamericano
Europe Final (Amstelveen, Netherlands)
Oceania http://www.uq.net.au/~zzjhardy/toyotacup.html
(Brisbane, Australia)
Asia http://weiqi.org.sg/oza2006/indexe.asp (Singapore)