On October 9, Japan's 1st Hakata Kabuki Cup Women's Go Open Tournament was awarded in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture. In the final, Rishi Fujisawa defeated Aishami Ueno and won a prize of 7 million yen (about 440,000 yuan), and Ueno won the second prize of 2 million yen (about 130,000 yuan). Like his grandfather, Hideyuki the Early Adopter, who excelled at winning new competitions, Rishi Fujisawa also took the inaugural winners of the Women's Tachibana Cup (formerly known as the Aizu Cup) and the Hakata Kaike Cup. Coincidentally, the sponsors of both women's chess games are medical institutions.
Masumi Kamichi, a sponsor of Hideyuki Fujisawa, presented a trophy to Rishi Fujisawa, and Kyaw Kobayashi, the chairman of the Japanese Chess Academy who studied in the "Hideyuki Legion", was also pleased.
The Hakata Kabuki Cup is Japan's newest women's Go tournament, which can be attended by all professional female chess players, and the sponsor of the tournament is the Saitama Giant Tree Association, a medical corporation. In the name of the cup, "Hakata" is another name for Fukuoka, where the venue is held, and "Kamichi" is the sponsor's surname. The president of the Saitama Giant Tree Society, Masumi Kaike, has been practicing medicine for generations, and has been a ninth generation since the Edo period, and he mainly runs hospitals in the Kyushu area. At the opening ceremony in February, Masumi Kazuki said he was a big fan of Hideyuki Fujisawa and hoped to help the go world flourish.
Group photo at the opening ceremony. In the front row, from the left are Eiko Ushiko, Wanbo Naiho, and Fujisawa Risai, and from right are Xie Yimin, Kuro Kaka, and Ueno Aisami. In the back row, from left are Omori ran, Shigeru Ariaki, Shokan, Chiei Xiang, Saiko Nakazawa, Kumiko Yashiro, Kiko Takashi, Akane Ishii, Inaba Kaori, and Tsujika.
The inaugural Hakata Kabuki Cup consisted of sixteen players, including five seeded chess players (women's champion Aimi Ueno and Satoshi Fujisawa, with prize money rankings high by Xie Yimin, Naho Wanbo, and Eiko Ushi, and ten pre-selected players (six from Tokyo Main Campus, two from Nakanishi Headquarters, and two from Kansai Chess Academy), and one wild card (Kuro kaka). For the Japanese chess community, the issuance of wild cards to non-Japanese chess players is unprecedented, which shows the popularity of Kuro Kaka, who is a lecturer on the Go program of NHK Television in Japan.
The scene of the first round of the tournament at the Japan Chess Academy.
On Valentine's Day on February 14, sixteen players held a lottery ceremony in Tokyo, and the first two rounds were held on the 15th and 16th. Queen Xie Yimin defeated Kiko Yuya in the first round and lost to her friend Xiang Jing Qianying and missed the final four. Hei Jiajia, who holds a wild card, also defeats the second half of the big senran and the female cow Rongzi of the Go player Niu Lili. In the women's finals, Risai Fujisawa won consecutive victories over two juniors, Shigeru Yusa and Tsuji- and Aimi Ueno defeated two seniors, Yashiro Kumiko and Nakazawa.
Kuro Kaka, who competes in Japan for the first time. This is something that many Chinese female predecessors have failed to achieve.
April 14 this year is the eightieth birthday of Masumi Kamiike, and he plans to hold the semi-finals and finals on April 13 and 14 in Fukuoka, which is the happiest moment for a Go lover. Unfortunately, the rapid spread of the new crown pneumonia has suspended all competitions in Japan, and the competition was first postponed to June 8 and 9, and finally decided to be held on October 8 and 9, and all kinds of celebrations could not be realized. However, the Japanese Chess Academy still sent a star lineup of Zhao Zhixun, Xie Yimin, Lin Hanjie, and Hoshiho Shiho, and the whole process was explained through live network broadcast for two days.
Zhao Zhixun is best at posing the changes in the march to the end when explaining.
In the semi-finals, Riki Fujisawa and Aishomi Ueno defeated Eiko Yaeko and Chiei Xiangjing, which is the fifth time that the two have met in the final after the 2019 Women's Chess Holy War, the Women's Tachibana Cup, the Women's Honinbo Battle and the 2020 Women's Honinbo. Fujisawa won two titles in last year's three-game showdown, fujisawa won one, and this year's women's Honinfang battled Fujisawa in the first set on October 1, leading 1-0. In terms of specific scores, the two sides won 6 and lost 6.
Because Ueno Aisami is the current woman, Honinbo, the elder Fujisawa arrives early to wipe the chessboard chess box.
After guessing that the First Fujizawa dish is black, the layout forms a pattern of black taking the potential and taking the land, and the Ueno AiSaki White 54 walks in the five roads to pursue the balance of potential, but it has become a hand that breaks the balance of power. The black chess moves with the overall situation to go thick to loot, and a few details of the white side make the winning rate fall to the freezing point irretrievable. Fujisawa Has always been clear about the overall situation, and after gaining an advantage, it ended steadily, making it impossible for Ueno, who was good at chaotic warfare, to play. To 231 hands, Ueno conceded defeat in the mid-game. In the three or four finals played at the same time, Xiang Jing Qianying narrowly defeated Niu Eiko with black half eyes and won the third place.
So far, in the five major women's competitions currently held in Japan, Ueno Aisami has won two crowns in the women's Honinbo and Fanxing Cups, and Fujisawa Hasato has also won the Tachibana Cup and hakata Kabuki Cup, and the champion of the Women's Chess Jihad in the Kuaigaku Tournament is in suzuki's hands. This year's Japan women's first place cannot be decided until the winner of the last women's Honinfang battle is decided.
Even if it is a chair match, Fujisawa Licai also chooses to kneel.
At the closing ceremony, Kyaw Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Chess Academy, presented an eight-dan certificate to Masumi Kazuki, and announced that from the next edition, the tournament will be renamed "Hakata Kabuki Cup Women's Celebrity Battle" and restore the round-robin format that has been implemented for a long time from 2009 to 2017. Founded in 1988, the Japanese women's celebrity war has gone through several twists and turns, and in 2019, the Sankei Shimbun was unsustainable and no longer sponsored, and finally "continued to live" after a year. Risai Fujisawa was the champion of the 31st Women's Celebrity Tournament, as the only champion of the Hakata Kashiki Cup Women's Open, and then transitioned to a new stage of the Women's Celebrity Tournament waiting for the challengers of the 32nd Tournament, which is a very satisfactory result for all parties.