11th Fujitsu Cup

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# 11th Fujitsu Cup

Main tournament
Third place playoff
Japanese Preliminary
European Preliminary
North American Preliminary

## Participants

The 24 participants of the main tournament are:

- Top 3 from last year: Kobayashi Koichi, O Rissei, Ma Xiaochun
- 7 from Japan: Cho Chikun, Cho Riyu, Hikosaka Naoto, Ishida Yoshio, Kiyonari Tetsuya, Ryu Shikun, Yamashiro Hiroshi
- 5 from China: Chang Hao, Ding Wei, Shao Weigang, Yu Bin, Zhou Heyang
- 5 from South Korea: Lee Changho, Cho Hunhyun, Choi Myeonghun, Yoo Changhyuk, Seo Bongsoo
- 1 from Taiwan: Zhou Junxun
- 1 from Europe: Catalin Taranu
- 1 from North America: Michael Redmond
- 1 from South America: Fernando Aguilar

## Main tournament

Main tournament
Lee Changho | Lee Changho W+R 1998-04-11 | Lee Changho B+4.5 1998-04-13 | Lee Changho B+R 1998-06-05 | Lee Changho W+5.5 1998-07-04 | Lee Changho W+1.5 1998-08-01
Catalin Taranu
Ishida Yoshio
Yu Bin | Yu Bin W+R 1998-04-11 | Yu Bin B+0.5 1998-04-13
Cho Riyu
Cho Chikun
Hikosaka Naoto | Hikosaka Naoto W+0.5 1998-04-11 | Hikosaka Naoto B+R 1998-04-13 | Hikosaka Naoto B+3.5 1998-06-05
Choi Myeonghun
Ding Wei
Cho Hunhyun | Cho Hunhyun B+R 1998-04-11 | Cho Hunhyun W+R 1998-04-13
Zhou Junxun
Yamashiro Hiroshi
Yoo Changhyuk | Yoo Changhyuk B+R 1998-04-11 | Yoo Changhyuk B+R 1998-04-13 | Yoo Changhyuk W+1.5 1998-06-05 | Chang Hao B+4.5 1998-07-04
Fernando Aguilar
Zhou Heyang
Ryu Shikun | Ryu Shikun W+0.5 1998-04-11 | Ma Xiaochun B+3.5 1998-04-13
Shao Weigang
Ma Xiaochun
Chang Hao | Chang Hao B+R 1998-04-11 | Chang Hao B+5.5 1998-04-13 | Chang Hao W+R 1998-06-05
Kiyonari Tetsuya
Kobayashi Koichi
Michael Redmond | Michael Redmond W+0.5 1998-04-11 | O Rissei W+11.5 1998-04-13
Seo Bongsoo
O Rissei

## Third place playoff

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1998-08-01 | Hikosaka Naoto | Yoo Changhyuk | W+1.5 | 279 | sgf

## Japanese Preliminary

Seeded: (Kobayashi Koichi, O Rissei and) Cho Chikun (Kisei, Meijin, Honinbo).
We give only a few games.

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1997-11-10 | Yata Naoki | Ogata Masaki | W+R | 258 | sgf
1997-12-18 | Yoda Norimoto | Yuki Satoshi | W+5.5 | 241 | sgf
1998-02-02 | Kiyonari Tetsuya | Kobayashi Satoru | B+R | 233 | sgf

## European Preliminary

5th EGF Fujitsu Finals
Catalin Taranu | Catalin Taranu W+R 1997-12-13 | Catalin Taranu W+R 1997-12-13 | Catalin Taranu B+5.5 1997-12-14 | Catalin Taranu B+R 1997-12-14
Farid Ben Malek
Viktor Bogdanov | Sorin Gherman B+R 1997-12-13
Sorin Gherman
Alexej Lazarev | Leszek Soldan W+21.5 1997-12-13 | Guo Juan W+R 1997-12-13
Leszek Soldan
Radek Nechanicky | Guo Juan B+25.5 1997-12-13
Guo Juan
Rob van Zeijst | Rob van Zeijst W+R 1997-12-13 | Dmitrii Yatsenko B+2.5 1997-12-13 | Cristian Pop W+1.5 1997-12-14
Ruslan Saifullin
Dmitrii Yatsenko | Dmitrii Yatsenko B+R 1997-12-13
Vladimir Danek
Cristian Pop | Cristian Pop B+8.5 1997-12-13 | Cristian Pop B+2.5 1997-12-13
Matthew Macfadyen
Emil Nijhuis | Emil Nijhuis W+R 1997-12-13
Hans Pietsch

## North American Preliminary

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1997-12-08 | Jimmy Cha | Michael Redmond | W+R | 140 | sgf