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Kisei Sen Comes to Seattle!The Kisei Sen's first match will be held in Seattle on January 15th and 16th, 2004. Due to the tremendous sponsorship of Yomiuri newspaper, the Kisei is the Premier Proffesional Go tournament in Japan. Each year the first game is held outside of Japan and this year Seattle has been selected. Yamashita Keigo is the current title holder and he will be challenged by Hane Naoki. You can read more about Hane's right to challenge on the Nihon Ki-in's English web page. Both players recieve 8 hours of basic time in the Kisei Sen and the game is scheduled to take two days. The first day will be January 15th and the second day will be January 16th. Play will begin at 9:00 AM on both days and there will be live broadcast of the game here at the Seattle Go Center. In addition, we will have pro commentary during the match! We hope you can come and join us for this exciting event here at the Seattle Go Center. |
