SGW Cup

Founded in 2018 by the Nihon Ki-in with the Tokyo property firm St.GRANDE W, the SGW Cup (SGW杯中庸戦) is defined by who may enter rather than how it is played: professionals aged 31 to 60 who have never won a major title. 中庸 — the Confucian "golden mean" — names both the tournament and its champion, and the Nihon Ki-in bills it as the battle of the middle-aged, a second chance for career-long contenders who never quite broke through. Sixteen survivors of the online preliminaries play a four-round Swiss over two days at even games, on NHK-style thirty-second moves. Men and women enter together and rank is no barrier: Okuda Aya reached the final at 4-dan.

Country Japan Type Open Format Swiss Cycle 1y Komi 7.5 Editions 8

2025 · Edition #8

Semifinal 22 games
Middle Section, Round 3 4 games
Round of 128 46 games
Aug 18 Kobayashi Izumi W+7.5 Kato Atsushi Aug 18 Oya Koichi W+1.5 Izawa Akino Aug 18 Obuchi Kotaro B+8.5 Sakai Maki Aug 21 Sasaki Tsuyoshi B+R Iwamaru Taira Aug 21 Takeda Yoshinori W+T Mimura Kaori Aug 21 Takemiya Yoko B+R Hosaka Mayu Aug 21 Kono Takashi B+R Ando Kazushige Aug 21 Ogaki Yusaku B+R Nagashima Kozue Aug 21 Kato Yuki B+0.5 Miyazaki Ryutaro Aug 21 Takekiyo Isamu W+R Okada Shinichiro Aug 28 Nakano Hironari B+R Nakajima Mieko Aug 28 Otani Naoki B+R Shiraishi Yuichi Aug 28 Mitani Tetsuya W+R Kawada Kohei Sep 8 Rin Shien B+5.5 Kanno Masashi Sep 8 Yashiro Kumiko W+2.5 Kubo Hideo Sep 8 Ito Masashi B+R Mannami Nao Sep 8 Takahashi Hideo W+T Ohashi Naruya Sep 8 Mizokami Tomochika B+8.5 Nakane Naoyuki Sep 8 Kikkawa Hajime W+2.5 Kono Mitsuki Sep 8 Iguchi Toyohide B+R Sugimoto Akira Sep 8 Ogata Masaki B+R Komatsu Daiki Sep 11 Mizuma Toshifumi W+T Ishida Atsushi Sep 11 Kuwabara Yoko W+7.5 Nishimura Keiji Sep 11 Aoki Shinichi B+4.5 Okada Yumiko Sep 11 Kato Keiko W+R Kimu Sujun Sep 11 Omori Yasushi B+3.5 Suzuki Ayumi Sep 11 Torii Yuta B+R Oki Keiji Sep 11 Ko Reibun B+R Takei Takashi Sep 11 Onda Yasuhiko B+R Shigeno Yuki Sep 15 Yamada Shinji W+R Adachi Toshimasa Sep 15 O Keii W+2.5 Ohashi Hirofumi Sep 15 Bian Wenkai B+0.5 Arimura Hiroshi Sep 15 Mochizuki Kenichi B+R Mitsunaga Junzo Sep 18 Yamamori Tadanao B+5.5 Yoshihara Yukari Sep 22 Tsuneishi Takashi B+1.5 Goto Shungo Sep 22 Cho Chen W+R Mannami Kana Sep 22 Numadate Sakiya B+5.5 Tsukuda Akiko Sep 22 Mukai Chiaki W+R Tanaka Nobuyuki Sep 22 Tahara Yasufumi B+R Shimojima Yohei Sep 22 Tajiri Yuto B+R Kimu Hyonjon Sep 22 Mimura Tomoyasu B+R Takeuchi Kosuke Sep 29 Yanaka Katsunori B+0.5 Aoki Kikuyo Sep 29 Suzuki Yoshimichi B+0.5 Kitano Ryo Oct 2 Xiong Feng B+R Araki Issei Oct 2 Anzai Nobuaki B+R Tajima Shingo Oct 2 Yanagisawa Satoshi B+R Yamamoto Kentaro
Middle Section, Round 1 7 games
Middle-section Preliminary 10 games
2025-11-02 2 games
2025-09-25 1 game
2025-09-22 2 games
2025-09-15 1 game
2025-09-11 2 games
2025-09-08 2 games
2025-08-28 1 game
2025-08-21 2 games
2025-08-18 1 game

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