3rd Daiwa Cup, 2007

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# 3rd Daiwa Cup

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

## Preliminaries

The preliminaries were played on 2007-08-07, 14, 21, 28 between twenty groups of 3 players and two groups of 2 players, 64 players in all. Each group of 2 or 3 players played a knockout tournament (of 1 or 2 games).

## Tournament

The 22 winners from the preliminaries and the 7 participants other than Cho U in the 2nd Daiwa Tournament (namely Yoda Norimoto (Honinbo), Takao Shinji (Meijin), O Meien (Daiwa Cup), Kono Rin (Tengen), Cho Chikun (Judan), Iyama Yuta, Kim Sujun) play a knockout tournament. The three players that reached the second round of the 2nd Daiwa Tournament get a bye.

3rd Daiwa Cup Tournament
Kono Rin | Kono Rin B+R 2007-09-23 | Ryu Shikun B+R 2007-10-27 | Iyama Yuta B+5.5 2007-11-16 | Iyama Yuta B+R 2007-11-27 | Takao Shinji W+R 2007-12-22
Cho Riyu
Rin Shien | Ryu Shikun W+R 2007-09-16
Ryu Shikun
Kanazawa Hideo | Kanazawa Hideo B+T 2007-09-23 | Iyama Yuta B+R 2007-10-07
So Yokoku
Kurotaki Masanori | Iyama Yuta B+R 2007-09-22
Iyama Yuta
O Rissei | O Rissei W+5.5 2007-09-15 | Rin Kanketsu B+5.5 2007-10-14 | Rin Kanketsu W+R 2007-11-16
Imamura Yoshiaki
Yamashiro Hiroshi | Rin Kanketsu B+2.5 2007-09-16
Rin Kanketsu
Yamada Kimio | Yamada Kimio W+R 2007-09-15 | Yamada Kimio B+R 2007-09-29
Anzai Nobuaki
O Meien
Cho Chikun | Cho Chikun W+R 2007-09-16 | Cho Chikun B+R 2007-10-28 | Takao Shinji B+8.5 2007-11-15 | Takao Shinji W+3.5 2007-11-23
Nakano Hironari
Mimura Tomoyasu | Mizokami Tomochika W+R 2007-09-24
Mizokami Tomochika
Nakamura Shinya | Nakamura Shinya B+4.5 2007-09-22 | Takao Shinji W+R 2007-10-06
Matsumoto Takehisa
Takao Shinji
Kim Sujun | Kim Sujun B+R 2007-09-23 | Kim Sujun W+R 2007-10-20 | Komatsu Hideki B+1.5 2007-10-27
Nakaonoda Tomomi
Ko Iso | Ko Iso W+13.5 2007-09-24
Michael Redmond
Komatsu Hideki | Komatsu Hideki W+T 2007-09-15 | Komatsu Hideki W+2.5 2007-09-30
Sakai Takeshi
Yoda Norimoto

## Final

This year the final was just the last game of the single knockout tournament.

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
2007-12-22 | Iyama Yuta | Takao Shinji | W+R | 252 | sgf

Takao Shinji won 1-0.