Hayago Championship

The Hayago Championship is broadcast on TV on Sundays. It is a single knockout tournament. However, the 12th-18th editions used a best of three match in the final. Players were usually 8- and 9-dans. A companion tournament for 5- to 7-dans was called Shinei.

Time allotted was 10 min + 30s/move (for editions 1-16), 5 min + 30s/move + 2 x 3min (for editions 17-33), 10s/move + 10 x 1min (for editions 34-35).

#	Year	Winner	Opponent	SGF
1	1968	Fujisawa Shuko	Fujisawa Hosai	sgf
2	1969	Hashimoto Utaro	Ohira Shuzo	sgf
3	1970	Miyashita Shuyo	Fujisawa Hosai	sgf
4	1971	Fujisawa Hosai	Hashimoto Utaro	sgf
5	1972	Kobayashi Koichi	Fujisawa Hosai	sgf
6	1973	Otake Hideo	Hashimoto Shoji	sgf
7	1974	Hashimoto Shoji	Otake Hideo	sgf
8	1975	Rin Kaiho	Sakata Eio	sgf
9	1976	Otake Hideo	Kudo Norio	sgf
10	1977	Ohira Shuzo	Yamabe Toshiro	sgf
11	1978	Takemiya Masaki	Fujisawa Shuko	sgf
12	1979	Ishida Yoshio	Otake Hideo	1 2 3
13	1980	Sakata Eio	Kato Masao	1 2 3
14	1981	Kobayashi Koichi	Yamabe Toshiro	1 2 3
15	1982	Ishida Yoshio	Kobayashi Koichi	1 2
16	1983	Ishida Yoshio	Kobayashi Koichi	1 2 3
17	1984	Rin Kaiho	Kato Masao	1 2
18	1985	Cho Chikun	Kobayashi Koichi	1 2 3
19	1986	Kobayashi Koichi	Cho Chikun	sgf
20	1987	Rin Kaiho	Ishida Yoshio	sgf
21	1988	Kato Masao	Takemiya Masaki	sgf
22	1989	Takemiya Masaki	Kato Masao	sgf
23	1990	Cho Chikun	Rin Kaiho	sgf
24	1991	Cho Chikun	Yuki Satoshi	sgf
25	1992	Cho Chikun	O Rissei	sgf
26	1993	Kataoka Satoshi	Yoda Norimoto	sgf
27	1994	Kato Masao	Yamada Kimio	sgf
28	1995	Yuki Satoshi	Rin Kaiho	sgf
29	1996	Cho Chikun	Yoda Norimoto	sgf
30	1997	Kobayashi Koichi	O Rissei	sgf
31	1998	Kataoka Satoshi	Kato Masao	sgf
32	1999	Kato Masao	Kobayashi Satoru	sgf
33	2000	Kobayashi Satoru	Kobayashi Koichi	sgf
34	2001	Cho Chikun	Kobayashi Koichi	sgf
35	2002	Cho Chikun	Ishida Yoshio	sgf