Tag: Akira Watanabe
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94th Kisei Tournament
The 94th Kisei tournament is in progress. Semifinal games of Akira Watanabe vs Daichi Sasaki and Takuya Nagase vs Yuki Sasaki were played on 20th April. Both games were double wing attack opening. Daichi Sasaki defeated Akira Watanabe. Daichi Sasaki got the pace in the middle of the game and he secured the advantage until…
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64th Oi Tournament
The round-robin round of 64th Oi Tournament is in progress. The tournament firstly starts from preliminary round to decide players who join the next round-robin round, where 12 players are separated into two groups (red and white). The winner from the each group will play the final match to decide the challenger to the previous…
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48th period Kio Battle commenced
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASR25750KR25UCVL01B.html The challenger Sota Fujii (20) won against Akira Watanabe (38), the current Kio title holder, in the first round of the 48th Kio Battle 5th Match (sponsored by Kyodo News) held in Nagano City on the 5th-Feb 2023. Fujii holds the five crowns of Oi, Eio, Osho, Kisei, and Ryuo. And Watanabe holds two…
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Genealogy of genius
Only six years has past since Sota Fujii debut, but he and Akira Watanabe have already played 14 games, which is abnormally high frequency. It is because they played three title matches. Fujii’s first title was Kisei, and the opponent was Watanabe. In the major title match, the previous year’s champion (title holder) and challenger…