4th Daiwa Cup, 2008

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# 4th Daiwa Cup

Daiwa Cup = Daiwa-Shoken Cup = Daiwa Securities Cup Net Igo Open

## Preliminaries

The preliminaries were played on 2008-05-19,20,26 between twenty groups of 3 players, 60 players in all. Each group of 3 players played a knockout tournament (of 2 games).

## Tournament

The 20 winners from the preliminaries and the eight players Cho Chikun, Rin Kanketsu, Kim Sujun, Iyama Yuta, Ryu Shikun, Takao Shinji, Yamada Kimio, Komatsu Hideki that reached the second round of the 3rd Daiwa Cup Tournament play a knockout tournament. The four players that reached the third round in that tournament get a bye.

4th Daiwa Cup Tournament
Cho Chikun | Cho Chikun B+R 2008-07-12 | Cho Chikun W+15.5 2008-09-13 | Cho U B+2.5 2008-10-04 | Kono Rin W+0.5 2008-11-08 | Kono Rin B+R 2008-12-20
Mimura Tomoyasu
Xie Yimin | Xie Yimin B+R 2008-07-05
Awaji Shuzo
Cho U | Cho U W+0.5 2008-07-05 | Cho U W+5.5 2008-08-30
Kobayashi Satoru
Rin Kanketsu
Hikosaka Naoto | Kono Rin W+R 2008-07-19 | Kono Rin B+R 2008-08-30 | Kono Rin W+3.5 2008-10-11
Kono Rin
Kim Sujun | Kim Sujun W+R 2008-06-21
Nakaonoda Tomomi
Yoda Norimoto | Yoda Norimoto B+0.5 2008-07-19 | Yoda Norimoto B+R 2008-09-13
Tsuruyama Atsushi
Iyama Yuta
O Rissei | O Rissei W+R 2008-07-05 | O Rissei W+R 2008-09-13 | Shuto Shun W+R 2008-11-01 | Kobayashi Koichi W+4.5 2008-11-22
Ogata Masaki
Ryu Shikun | Ogaki Yusaku W+5.5 2008-07-12
Ogaki Yusaku
Shuto Shun | Shuto Shun B+R 2008-07-19 | Shuto Shun B+R 2008-09-20
Nakamura Shinya
Takao Shinji
Kobayashi Koichi | Kobayashi Koichi B+R 2008-06-21 | Kobayashi Koichi W+R 2008-08-30 | Kobayashi Koichi W+4.5 2008-10-25
Cho Sonjin
Yamada Kimio | Ko Iso W+R 2008-07-12
Ko Iso
Nakamura Hidehito | Mizokami Tomochika B+6.5 2008-06-28 | Komatsu Hideki W+R 2008-09-20
Mizokami Tomochika
Komatsu Hideki

## Final

The final was just the last game of the knockout tournament.

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
2008-12-20 | Kono Rin | Kobayashi Koichi | B+R | 95 | sgf

Kono Rin won 1-0.