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| In the crowd of Manname 3dan and Satoru Kobayashi 9dan pair against Konishi 8dan and Yuki 9dan pair, there were Kobayashi 9dan’s daughter and her husband, Reibun Ko 4dan and a cute grandchild. At the beginning, the Mannami and Kobayashi pair was leading but half way, it reversed. They were contending kou rapidly and Redmond 9dan said, `Oh, dear. It is a difficult Go!’ |
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| At the game of Tomoko Kato 5dan and Kimio Yamada 8dan pair against Yashiro Women’s Honinbo and Yoda Gosei pair, an accident occurred. Yashiro and Yoda pair didn’t realize that their turn was wrong. When Kato and Yamada pair received 3 stones as the penalty, they stopped attacking and changed their strategy to let the opponent free. |
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Redmond 9dan said, `It seems Yashiro and Yoda pair will win.’
Tsukuda 4dan said, `I’ve just received information! There was a wrong turn and 3 stones of penalty!’
Redmond 9dan said, `What? Then, well, it’s delicate.’ |
Also, the game, Terumi Koyama Women’s Meijin and Rissei O 9dan pair against Suzuki 3dan and Cho Meijin Oza pair, had a series of reversals.
Their game turned 3 times. As Otake Honorary Gosei expected, the games were tough and at the commentary hall, screaming was heard.
Then, the pairs who won and proceed to the semi final are… |
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| 4 pairs, Izumi Kobayashi and Yamashita pair, Kato and Yamada pair, Konishi and Yuki pair and Suzuki and U Cho pair. |
In the waiting room, after the game…
Satoru Kobayashi 9dan regretfully looked back at the game and said, `It was quite good until half way.’ Yoda Gosei said to Yashiro Women’s Honinbo, `I thought I was wining, while I was playing. I forgot completely about the penalty of 3 stones.’ And Yashiro Women’s Honinbo said absent mindedly, `I was going to play 2 games, today.’ O 9dan said, `I was supposed to win the tournament (laugh).’ When Koyama Women’s Meijin heard that she regretted and said, `Oh, it was my fault.’ Then, O 9dan said on behalf of Koyama Women’s Meijin, `In fact, the recorder made a mistake, how to count seconds. And that made her surprised and she played without thinking. Didn’t you? From then, our rhythm was wrong.’ Koyama Women’s Meijin looked as if she couldn’t hear O 9dan who was trying to cheer her up and said, `Oh, I would have a dream about it.’
`I feel regretful! I lost.’ said Cho 10dan loudly with a lot of energy. ` When I was going to resign (when many stones were killed), a miracle occurred. Keigo gave us a present that I couldn’t believe. Then, when we were nearly wining, we made a mistake.’ Promptly, Umezawa 5dan said, `That’s right. After all…! Oh, no. I’m sorry!’
Since those losers were lively, the winners were quiet. But Suzuki and U Cho pair had done a review meeting properly and went to sit at the semi final table with full of confidence.
Kato and Yamada pair said, `Let’s hope to have the opponent’s wrong turn.’ They planned a strange strategy and went into the tournament hall. |
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