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The rest of the pairs, 1 win and 1 loss, will be playing on the 9X9 board game to proceed to the quarter final.
In the waiting room, Yuki 9dan and Yamada 8dan, the Kansai players, seemed confident. In Kansai, every year, the 9X9 board tournament is held, so they are used to it. That’s why they seem to have confidence. |
| Around this small, 9X9 board, there were more than 15 professionals and the study class was started. But it was interesting that the ones who were placing stones with enthusiasm were Yoda Gosei and Hayashi Honorary Tengen who don’t usually play on the 9X9 board. Satoru Kobayashi 9dan who teased, `they have nothing to do with it!’ was joined, too, in the class saying `Oh, really?’ when someone said, `in case of the stones divided in to two areas, when they are alive, there is no chance to win.’ |
| The pair who won the tough game of 9X9 board are Umezawa and Chikun Cho pair, Koyama and Rissei O pair, Konishi and Yuki pair and Kato and Yamada pair. And the 4 pairs who lost are Sakakibara and Takao pair, Osawa and Meien O pair, Chinen and Imamura pair and Aoki and Mimura pair. |
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