Shogi Elimination Championship (Japanese Chess - show rules)
Tournament for the top Shogi players to determine who is the strongest.

Random starting positions to avoid predictability and give everyone a chance of making the final.
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Match type: Normal game
Tournament type (?): single elimination
Membership level:     
Minimum number of players: 16
Maximum number of players: 32
Time control (?): 7 days, standard vacation
Player rating: 100 <= BKR <= 4000
Unrated players: yes
Unrated games (no BKR will be affected by this tournament): no
Private tournament (you will send personal invitations): yes
Sort players by BKR: no
Status: finished
Start date and time: 20. October 2009, 21:50:03
End date and time: 18. December 2013, 21:05:07

Winner of the tournament: shogihaak

Discussion - 3 messages

1 Walter Montego (1869) 4243904 2 klothos (1827)	Walter Montego 4720656 shogihaak	shogihaak 5416277 Volfson	shogihaak 5518085 Destructor	shogihaak 5963604 supertsumi
3 DragonKing (1446) 4243905 4 shogihaak (2281)
5 Volfson (2383) 4243906 6 niccar (2044)	Volfson 4720657 kleineme
7 Teniel (1843) 4243907 8 kleineme (1772)
9 lukulus (1941) 4243908 10 BlueJ (1609)	lukulus 4720658 bakashogi	bakashogi 5416278 Destructor
11 bakashogi (1874) 4243909 12 Ceiter (1811)
13 Pigeon (1888) 4243910 14 Stiglitz (1590)	Stiglitz 4720659 Destructor
15 Destructor (2067) 4243911 16 chessik (1793)
17 Nemesis (2061) 4243912 18 Kenji (1532)	Nemesis 4720660 CPM	CPM 5416279 unstable	unstable 5518086 supertsumi
19 cyrex2002 (1819) 4243913 20 CPM (2167)
21 fukuhara (1360) 4243914 22 bzial (1425)	fukuhara 4720661 unstable
23 unstable (1825) 4243915 24 Seravajan (1678)
25 joshi tm (1509) 4243916 26 tookArook (1376)	tookArook 4720662 ryo	ryo 5416280 supertsumi
27 Azkoy (1614) 4243917 28 ryo (1880)
29 supertsumi (1763) 4243918 30 aleqlo (1550)	supertsumi 4720663 anaguma
31 anaguma (2105) 4243919 32 Dundee (1592)