- August 2000 -

• Isumi and Waya take Hikaru to go club so that he acquires experience by playing with adults.


• He meets Kawai-san who spends his time in the go club. Hikaru learns quickly.


• Games with a handicap of three stones. Waya loses his game.


• Hikaru goes to Kawai-san's go club everyday. He becomes the go club's idol.


• Hikaru forgets to go to Morshita-sensei's study group.


• Waya, Isumi and Hikaru go into another go club. They win with a handicap of three stone each.


• Akira stands in for Miss Sakurano in a go event. He has to play influential people. Four simultaneous games. He succeeds in making four jigo. Ashiwara is outraged that Akira throws his talent away.


• Hikaru learns to calculate point during a game and how to make jigo. He succeeds in making three jigo while playing four simultaneous games.


• Akira gets ten victories in a row since he is professional.


• Waya, Isumi and Hikaru go into another go club. It is a Korean go club. Hikaru makes a mistake and challenges a Yongusaeng, Su yong. Mister Yun, a go professor of Kaio witnesses the game and congratulates Hikaru. Sai dreads the future because people acknowledge more and more Hikaru's playing.


• Japan goes through crisis in the world of go.


• The 08/27th First day of the professional go exam. Hikaru meets Tsubaki again but he does not fear him anymore. There are twenty eight participants. His first opponent is Iijima who notices that Hikaru has changed. Hikaru wins by default.


• The 08/29th Second day of the professional go exam, Hikaru wins. Tsubaki loses.


• Classes begins at Haze.


• - LinxinLi wins the international amateur go tournament.