Kubo joins the lead
As expected, Kubo won his postponed game in the B2 Junisen class against Hatakeyama and now joins Tsukada in the lead with an 8-1 score. In the final round, Tsukada needs a win against Tamaru and Kubo needs to beat Nishikawa to get to B1. Except for promotion pressure, this should not be too hard for both players and Abe and Suzuki probably need to wait another year.
Major upset in Oi league
In the Red Group of the Oi league, a major upset as Yamasaki beat
Tanigawa in the first round. Still, Yamasaki will not be boasting too much about this win, as he was completely outplayed by Tanigawa. However, when Tanigawa wanted to place the coup de grace with a nice gold sacrifice, Yamasaki could not believe his eyes. This gold sacrifice was a terrible blunder that lost immediately. Tanigawa is of course still not out of the promotion race, but this is a major setback.
Moriuchi to Zen Nihon Pro final
Moriuchi reached the final of the Zen Nihon Pro tournament with a
win over Sato Yasumitsu. Even though the mutual score going into the game was pretty even with 16-13 in Moriuchi's favour, Sato has had some big problems against him lately as the result of their last ten games is an astonishing 9-1 for Moriuchi. Moriuchi added another victory to that, as he won a difficult Yokofudori game. Moriuchi will meet Tanigawa for the second time to play for the Zen Nihon Pro title. In 1988 he lost 2-1 as a 4-dan (then the match was a best of three games). Let's see if he can do better this time.
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