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The following events were scheduled to happen in 2007 regarding Go (board game) throughout the world.

Contents

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

Major tournament standings

International

TournamentWinnerScoreRunner-up
11th LG Cup Flag of the Republic of China.svg Zhou Junxun 2-1 Hu Yaoyu Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg
12th LG Cup
20th Fujitsu Cup
6th Chunlan Cup Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Gu Li 2-0 Chang Hao Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg

Japan

TournamentHolderScoreChallenger
31st Kisei Keigo Yamashita 4-0 Kobayashi Satoru
32nd Kisei Keigo Yamashita
32nd Meijin Cho U 4-3 Shinji Takao
62nd Honinbo Shinji Takao4-1 Norimoto Yoda
63rd Honinbo
45th Judan Cho Chikun 3-2Keigo Yamashita
46th JudanCho Chikun
33rd Tengen Rin Kono
55th Oza Keigo Yamashita
32nd Gosei Cho U

Korea

TournamentHolder/
Winner
ScoreChallenger/
Runner-up
12th GS Caltex Cup Lee Sedol
41st Wangwi Lee Chang-ho 3-2 Yun Junsang
50th Guksu Lee Chang-ho1-3 Yun Junsang
18th Kisung Pak Yeong-hun 2-0 Choi Cheol-han
35th Myungin
2nd Sibdang Cup An Choyoung 2-1 Paek Hongsuk
12th Chunwon Cho Hanseung

China

TournamentHolder/
Winner
ScoreChallenger/
Runner-up
19th Mingren Gu Li 3-0 Zhou Ruiyang
20th Mingren Gu Li
21st Tianyuan Gu Li 2-1Liu Shizhen
3rd Chang-ki Cup Kong Jie 2-1Gu Li

Taiwan

TournamentHolderScoreChallenger
6th Tianyuan Zhou Junxun
3rd Guoshou Chen Shien

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chen Yaoye</span> Chinese professional Go player

Chen Yaoye is a Chinese professional Go player.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yuta Iyama</span> Japanese Go player

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The 31st Kisei is a go tournament held from May 2006 to March 22, 2007. The following players earned spots through not being eliminated in the group stage: Satoshi Yuki (5-0), Tomoyasu Mimura (3-2), Kato Atsushi (3-2), Kobayashi Satoru (3-2), Komatsu Hideki (3-2), Norimoto Yoda (2-3), and O Rissei (2-3). Cho U, Kunihisa Honda, O Meien, and Toshiya Imamura were eliminated from group play and had to earn a spot through preliminary stages. The players to have qualified through preliminary tournaments are Cho U, Kunihisa Honda, Cho Chikun, and Toshiya Imamura. Naoki Hane, the loser of the 30th Kisei takes the place of holder Keigo Yamashita in the group stage. Players who end with the two lowest records in the each league are eliminated from automatic berth into the next tournament while the 3 other players who were not eliminated or had the top record are given a place in the following years groups.

The 10th LG Cup featured :

The 11th LG Cup professional Go tournament was held in 2006 and 2007 and was won by Zhou Junxun. It featured:

The 9th LG Cup featured:

The 7th LG Cup featured:

The 6th LG Cup featured:

The 5th LG Cup featured :

The 45th Judan was held from May 11, 2006 to April 25, 2007. The current sponsor is Sankei Newspapers. The holder is Cho Chikun, and the challenger is Keigo Yamashita for the second time in-a-row. Hideki Komatsu, Norimoto Yoda, Kimio Yamada, Hideo Otake, Koichi Kobayashi, Kim Shushun, Naoki Hane, and Takeshi Sakai qualified through preliminary tournaments. The rest of the players were given spots automatically.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Park Junghwan</span> South Korean Go player

Park Junghwan is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank.

Tuo Jiaxi is a Chinese professional Go player.

The 24th Fujitsu Cup featured 32 players.

The 15th LG Cup began on 7 June 2010 and concluded on 23 February 2011. Piao Wenyao won the title, defeating compatriot Kong Jie in the final. 32 players from four countries competed in the final knockout tournament:

The 6th Ing Cup began on 30 April 2008 and concluded on 23 April 2009. Choi Cheol-han won the title, beating Lee Chang-ho 3–1 in the finals.

The 5th Ing Cup began on 20 April 2004 and concluded on 5 March 2005. Chang Hao defeated Choi Cheol-han 3–1 in the finals.

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