1st Daiwa Cup

Daiwa Cup = Daiwa-Shoken Cup = Daiwa Securities Cup Net Igo Open

The Daiwa Cup is sponsored by Daiwa Securities Group. The time allowance is five minutes per player, followed by a byo-yomi of 30 seconds per move.

The format of the tournament varies. This first time a round robin with 4 leagues and 4 players in each league, followed by a somewhat irregular tournament. The final is here a best-of-three.

League A

#	player	result	1	2	3
1.	Anzai Nobuaki	1-2			B+R
2.	Iyama Yuta	3-0	W+R		W+10.5
3.	Hane Naoki	2-1
4.	Ogata Masaki	0-3	B+R	B+R	B+6.5

Iyama Yuta wins.

League B

#	player	result	1	2	3	4
1.	Kobayashi Satoru	2-1				B+R
2.	So Yokoku	1-2	B+R			B+R
3.	Ryu Shikun	1-2	B+R	B+R
4.	Nakano Hironari	2-1			B+R

Kobayashi Satoru wins.

League C

#	player	result	1	2	3	4
1.	O Meien	3-0
2.	Mimura Tomoyasu	1-2	B+R		B+R
3.	Yamashiro Hiroshi	2-1	B+R			W+R
4.	Michael Redmond	0-3	B+2.5	B+6.5

O Meien wins.

League D

#	player	result	1	2	3
1.	Yamada Kimio	1-2			W+R
2.	O Rissei	1-2	W+R
3.	Yamada Takuji	1-2		W+R
4.	Kim Sujun	3-0	W+R	W+R	W+R

Kim Sujun wins.

Tournament

Five title holders and four winners of the four leagues play a knockout tournament. The final is a best-of-three.

Title holders: Takao Shinji (Honinbo), Kono Rin (Tengen), Cho U (Meijin), Cho Chikun (Judan), Yoda Norimoto (ex-Gosei).

1st Daiwa Cup Tournament
Iyama Yuta		Takao Shinji W+5.5 2006-10-07	Takao Shinji B+0.5 2006-10-15
Takao Shinji		Takao Shinji W+5.5 2006-10-07
Kono Rin		Kono Rin B+R 2006-10-07
Yoda Norimoto	Yoda Norimoto W+3.5 2006-10-01
Kobayashi Satoru	Yoda Norimoto W+3.5 2006-10-01
O Meien		Cho U W+R 2006-10-14	Cho U B+1.5 2006-10-15
Cho U		Cho U W+R 2006-10-14
Kim Sujun		Cho Chikun W+R 2006-10-07
Cho Chikun		Cho Chikun W+R 2006-10-07

Final

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2006-10-21	Cho U	Takao Shinji	W+11.5	226	sgf
2006-10-28	Takao Shinji	Cho U	B+R	183	sgf

Takao Shinji won 2-0.