These three games will start at 10:00am today. The allotted thinking time per player is four hours. So I think it will end around 7:00 - 8:00pm(Japan time).
- 9-dan Sato Yasumitsu vs 5-dan Toyoshima Masayuki
- Meijin Habu Yoshiharu vs 9-dan Fukaura Koichi
- 9-dan Moriuchi Toshiyuki vs Ryuo Watanabe Akira
The league consists of the seven players. The lowest three cannot survive to remain in the league for the next term and will have to participate in the preliminary tournament. After the 6th round finished, each player's score is as following;
- 9-dan Sato Yasumitsu 4-1 (Former rank = 2)
- 5-dan Toyoshima Masayuki 4-1 (5)
- Ryuo Watanabe Akira 3-2 (5)
- 8-dan Miura Hiroyuki 3-3 (5)
- Meijin Habu Yoshiharu 2-3 (1)
- 9-dan Fukaura Koichi 2-3 (3)
- 9-dan Moriuci Toshiyuki 0-5 (4)
The winner of the game of Sato vs Toyoshima will be the challenger against Osho Kubo Toshiaki. It's very clear. On the other hand, survival race is a bit confusing. Though only Moriuchi is fixed to fall from the league, the other four will be at stake whether to survive or not in this final round. The winner of Habu and Moriuchi will survive and the loser will fall. Watanabe will survive if he beat Moriuchi today, but he must compete a supplemental survival match with Miura on a later day if Moriuchi defeats him since both with 3-3 with the same former rank of fifth place. So all the games are must-see.
The official page of Osho-sen is here(in Japanese).
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