Junisen B1 class
The second round of the B1 Junisen class was played and the results showed that it is going to be a race between Goda, Inoue, Fujii and Miura. Maybe Nakahara can also play a role, but he has dropped back after a loss against Miura. Goda easily disposed of Kiriyama and Inoue just seemed to understand the R8e Yokofudori a little better than Nakamura. Fujii, however, had to work quite hard to get the win against Takahashi. Their first game ended in sennichite and in the replay Fujii had to do some very accurate calculation in the endgame to keep Takahashi under control. The fifth player with two wins after two rounds is Fukuzaki, who beat Kobayashi. Fukuzaki, a former Oza title holder, has not had many good Junisen seasons lately, but he is
good enough to be a spoiler like Aono was last year.
Ryu-O challenger finals
The line up for the challenger tournament of the Ryu-O tournament has been decided. The final remaining spot was taken by Tanigawa, who beat Moriuchi in the final of the second chance round of the top qualification group. So Moriuchi is not in the finals, but there are still a lot of good players left. The match-ups are as follows: Nakahara will play the winner of the game between Miura and Aono, Sato Yasumitsu will play Yonenaga, Yashiki plays
Tanigawa (can Yashiki get revenge for his loss in the Oi challenger final?), Habu will play the winner of the game between Hatakeyama Nariyuki and the winner of the game between Yamamoto and Tamura (are you still with me?).
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