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2nd Toyota & Denso Cup

Main tournament
Japanese Preliminary
European Preliminary
North American Preliminary
South American Preliminary
Africa, Asia and Oceania

Participants

The 32 participants of the main tournament are:

10 from Japan: Cho U, Hikosaka Naoto, Kobayashi Koichi, Mizokami Tomochika, Sakai Hideyuki, So Yokoku, Takao Shinji, Yamashita Keigo, Yoda Norimoto, Yuki Satoshi
8 from China: Chang Hao, Gu Li, Kong Jie, Peng Quan, Wang Lei, Wang Xi, Yu Bin, Zhou Heyang
6 from Korea: Cho Hunhyun, Choi Cheolhan, Lee Changho, Lee Sedol, Song Taekon, Yoo Changhyuk
1 from Taiwan: Zhou Junxun
3 from Europe: Alexander Dinerchtein (Russia), Andrey Kulkov (Russia), Frank Janssen (The Netherlands)
2 from North America: Feng Yun, Jiang Mingjiu
1 from South America: Fernando Aguilar (Argentina)
1 from the rest of the world: Yang Jinhua (Singapore)

Main tournament

Main tournament
Kong Jie	Kong Jie W+R 2004-08-21	Kong Jie B+R 2004-08-23	Kong Jie W+0.5 2004-08-25	Lee Sedol W+R 2004-08-27	Lee Sedol W+R 2005-01-05 (W+R) 2005-01-07 W+R 2005-01-08
Andrey Kulkov	Kong Jie W+R 2004-08-21
Yoo Changhyuk	Yoo Changhyuk B+3.5 2004-08-21
Peng Quan	Yoo Changhyuk B+3.5 2004-08-21
Lee Changho	Lee Changho B+2.5 2004-08-21	Lee Changho B+R 2004-08-23
Yang Jinhua	Lee Changho B+2.5 2004-08-21
Yamashita Keigo	Gu Li W+R 2004-08-21
Gu Li	Gu Li W+R 2004-08-21
Lee Sedol	Lee Sedol B+R 2004-08-21	Lee Sedol B+2.5 2004-08-23	Lee Sedol B+R 2004-08-25
Zhou Junxun	Lee Sedol B+R 2004-08-21
Yu Bin	Yu Bin W+R 2004-08-21
Kobayashi Koichi	Yu Bin W+R 2004-08-21
Mizokami Tomochika	Zhou Heyang W+R 2004-08-21	Zhou Heyang W+0.5 2004-08-23
Zhou Heyang	Zhou Heyang W+R 2004-08-21
Cho U	Cho U B+R 2004-08-21
Wang Xi	Cho U B+R 2004-08-21
Takao Shinji	Song Taekon W+R 2004-08-21	Song Taekon B+2.5 2004-08-23	Chang Hao W+R 2004-08-25	Chang Hao B+R 2004-08-27
Song Taekon	Song Taekon W+R 2004-08-21
Yoda Norimoto	Yoda Norimoto W+R 2004-08-21
Jiang Mingjiu	Yoda Norimoto W+R 2004-08-21
Chang Hao	Chang Hao B+R 2004-08-21	Chang Hao W+R 2004-08-23
Feng Yun	Chang Hao B+R 2004-08-21
So Yokoku	So Yokoku W+R 2004-08-21
Frank Janssen	So Yokoku W+R 2004-08-21
Wang Lei (b)	Wang Lei (b) B+R 2004-08-21	Yuki Satoshi W+R 2004-08-23	Choi Cheolhan B+2.5 2004-08-25
Fernando Aguilar	Wang Lei (b) B+R 2004-08-21
Cho Hunhyun	Yuki Satoshi W+R 2004-08-21
Yuki Satoshi	Yuki Satoshi W+R 2004-08-21
Hikosaka Naoto	Choi Cheolhan W+2.5 2004-08-21	Choi Cheolhan B+R 2004-08-23
Choi Cheolhan	Choi Cheolhan W+2.5 2004-08-21
Sakai Hideyuki	Sakai Hideyuki W+R 2004-08-21
Alexander Dinerchtein	Sakai Hideyuki W+R 2004-08-21

Final

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2005-01-05	Chang Hao	Lee Sedol	W+R	206	sgf
2005-01-07	Lee Sedol	Chang Hao	W+R	250	sgf
2005-01-08	Chang Hao	Lee Sedol	W+R	188	sgf

Lee Sedol won 2-1.

Japanese Preliminary

Seeded were Cho U (Honinbo), Yamashita Keigo (previous Kisei), Yoda Norimoto (Meijin). The remaining seven Japanese players were selected via preliminaries. A few games:

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2004-04-15	Hane Naoki	Sanno Hirotaka	B+R	219	sgf
2004-05	Sakai Hideyuki	Yokota Shigeaki	B+R	163	sgf
2004-06-24	Sakai Hideyuki	Ogata Masaki	B+R	189	sgf
2004-07-22	Yuki Satoshi	Nakamura Shinya	B+R	173	sgf

European Preliminary

The European 2nd Toyota Denso Oza was held at the EGCC in Amsterdam on Feb 6-8, 2002. The top 3 earned a place in the World Oza.

European preliminary 2nd Toyota & Denso Cup
Alexander Dinerchtein		Alexander Dinerchtein W+R 2004-02-08	Alexander Dinerchtein	Alexander Dinerchtein B+R 2004-02-08	Andrey Kulkov W+4.5 2004-02-08
Emil Nijhuis	Emil Nijhuis
Geert Groenen	Emil Nijhuis
Benjamin Teuber	Dmytro Bogatski	Dmytro Bogatski
Dmytro Bogatski	Dmytro Bogatski
Ilya Shikshin	Ilya Shikshin
Felix von Arnim	Ilya Shikshin
Rob van Zeijst		Rob van Zeijst	Frank Janssen W+4.5 2004-02-07
Anton Zatonskikh	Lucretia Calota
Lucretia Calota	Lucretia Calota
Csaba Mero	Michiel Eijkhout	Frank Janssen
Michiel Eijkhout	Michiel Eijkhout
Frank Janssen
Cristian Pop		Vladimir Danek	Ion Florescu	Andrey Kulkov
Alexei Lazarev	Vladimir Danek
Vladimir Danek	Vladimir Danek
Ion Florescu	Ion Florescu	Ion Florescu W+R 2004-02-08
Tibor Pocsai	Ion Florescu
Guo Juan
Dragos Bajenaru		Laurent Heiser	Andrey Kulkov
Laurent Heiser	Laurent Heiser
Pierre Colmez	Laurent Heiser
Andrey Kulkov	Andrey Kulkov	Andrey Kulkov
Radek Nechanicky	Andrey Kulkov
Svetana Shikshina

Frank Janssen beat Ion Florescu in the play-off for the third place.

North American Preliminary

The North American Oza was held in Seattle and New York on Jan 15-18, 2004. Winners were Feng Yun in the East, and Jiang Mingjiu in the West.

Eastern Championship: 1. Feng Yun, 2. Yang Huiren, 3. Zhou Yansong, 4. John J-S Lee, ...

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2004-01	Feng Yun	John J-S Lee	B+R	131	sgf
2004-01-17	Feng Yun	Yang Huiren	B+R	167	sgf
2004-01-18	Li Jie	Jiang Mingjiu	W+T	176	sgf

South American Preliminary

On Sep 15-21, 2003, the 5th Latin American Go Championship was held. This also served as the South American Preliminary for the 2nd Toyota & Denso Cup. It was won by Fernando Aguilar (Argentina).

1. Fernando Aguilar (Argentina), 2. Wang Sen Feng (Brazil), 3. Hisao Uyama (Brazil), 4. Antonio Fernandez (Cuba), ...

A few games:

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2003-09-19	Antonio Fernández	Fernando Aguilar	W+R	158	sgf
2003-09-19	Fernando Aguilar	Juan-Carlos Pachon	B+R	179	sgf
2003-09-20	Fernando Aguilar	Wang Sen Feng	W+R	168	sgf
2003-09-20	Ricardo Quitero	Fernando Aguilar	W+R	58	sgf
2003-09-21	Hisao Uyama	Fernando Aguilar	W+R	186	sgf

Africa, Asia and Oceania

Oceania

On Jan 17-18, 2004, the Oceania Preliminaries were held in Brisbane, Australia. The winner was Yiming Guo (8d).

Playoff

A playoff was played between Yiming Guo (Australia), Victor Guang Chow (South Africa), and Yang Jinhua (Singapore), won by Yang.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2004-08-18	Yiming Guo	Victor Guang Chow	W+R	200	sgf
2004-08-19	Victor Guang Chow	Yang Jinhua	W+7.5	149	sgf