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Oza quarterfinal
line-up
Tanigawa became the last player to
qualify for the quarter finals of the Oza challenger tournament.
His win over Arimori may not have been a big surprise, but it was
interesting to see that Tanigawa played some very accurate defence
to get the victory. The quarterfinal line-up is one of the strongest
I have ever seen: Goda-Fujii, Kato-Sato Yasumitsu, Nakahara-Tanigawa
and Moriuchi-Maruyama. Who will challenge Habu?
Oi leagues
In the red group of the Oi league,
things have cleared up a little. Goda beat Minami to join Tanigawa
in the lead with 3 wins from 4 games. They will play in the final
round to decide the winner of this group.
In
the other group there are still a lot of scenario's possible, but
Yashiki won an important game against Inoue to get to 3-1, the same
score that Morishita has. However, they will not play in the final
round, which means that Fukaura and Namekata at 2-2 still have a
chance to enter a play-off with Morishita and Yashiki. My guess
is that both Morishita and Yashiki will win, as they play Inoue
and Suzuki, who have already been relegated.
Ryu-O tournament
Two more players qualified for the
challenger knock-out of the Ryu-O tournament. Yonenaga had a surprisingly
easy win against Namekata in the semi-finals of group two. It was
quite a violent game where Yonenaga seemed to feel better at home
than his young opponent. In the end a nice horse sacrifice sealed
it.
In
group 5 Yamamoto qualified for the knock-out tournament for the
first time with a convincing win over Naganuma.
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