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Women's Meijin title games

This page gives the title games (in SGF format) for the Women's Meijin (女流名人戦) title.

The first two years the title was earned by winning an (8-player) League, not by beating a challenger. In editions #3-20, the challenger was the winner of a 16-player knockout tournament. Since the 21st edition, the challenger is the winner of a 7-player league. For this main tournament or league, see the subpages linked to in the first column.

Komi was 5.5 until 2003, and 6.5 from 2004.

There was an earlier tournament of the same name (held twice, in 1973 and 1975), for which see here.

This tournament was discontinued after the 31st edition. After the 1st Hakata Kamachi Cup tournament, the Women's Meijin was restarted again under the name Hakata Kamachi Cup Women’s Meijin Tournament, starting from the 32nd edition in 2021.

#YearWinnerChallengerScoreSGF
1 1989 Miyazaki Shimako
2 1990 Aoki Kikuyo
3 1991 Sugiuchi Kazuko Aoki Kikuyo 2-1 1 2 3
4 1992 Sugiuchi Kazuko Aoki Kikuyo 2-0 1 2
5 1993 Sugiuchi Kazuko Aoki Kikuyo 2-0 1 2
6 1994 Sugiuchi Kazuko Ogawa Tomoko 2-1 1 2 3
7 1995 Kato Tomoko Sugiuchi Kazuko 2-0 1 2
8 1996 Nishida Terumi Kato Tomoko 2-1 1 2 3
9 1997 Nishida Terumi Ogawa Tomoko 2-0 1 2
10 1998 Nishida Terumi Ogawa Tomoko 2-0 1 2
11 1999 Aoki Kikuyo Nishida Terumi 2-0 1 2
12 2000 Aoki Kikuyo Kobayashi Izumi 2-0 1 2
13 2001 Kobayashi Izumi Aoki Kikuyo 2-0 1 2
14 2002 Aoki Kikuyo Kobayashi Izumi 2-0 1 2
15 2003 Kobayashi Izumi Aoki Kikuyo 2-0 1 2
16 2004 Kobayashi Izumi Inori Yoko 2-0 1 2
17 2005 Koyama Terumi Kobayashi Izumi 2-1 1 2 3
18 2006 Aoki Kikuyo Koyama Terumi 2-0 1 2
19 2007 Kato Keiko Aoki Kikuyo 2-1 1 2 3
20 2008 Xie Yimin Kato Keiko 2-0 1 2
21 2009 Xie Yimin Chinen Kaori 2-1 1 2 3
22 2010 Xie Yimin Mukai Chiaki 2-0 1 2
23 2011 Xie Yimin Mukai Chiaki 2-1 1 2 3
24 2012 Xie Yimin Mukai Chiaki 2-0 1 2
25 2013 Xie Yimin Okuda Aya 2-0 1 2
26 2014 Xie Yimin Kato Keiko 2-1 1 2 3
27 2015 Xie Yimin Suzuki Ayumi 2-0 1 2
28 2016 Xie Yimin Aoki Kikuyo 2-1 1 2 3
29 2017 Fujisawa Rina Xie Yimin 2-0 1 2
30 2018 Fujisawa Rina Yashiro Kumiko 2-0 1 2
31 2019 Fujisawa Rina Xie Yimin 2-1 1 2 3
32 2021 Fujisawa Rina Ueno Asami 2-0 1 2
33 2022 Fujisawa Rina Nakamura Sumire 2-0 1 2
34 2023 Ueno Asami Fujisawa Rina 2-0 1 2
35 2024 Fujisawa Rina Ueno Asami 2-0 1 2