25th Honinbo title

25th Honinbo Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1970-04-27,28	Sakata Eio	Rin Kaiho	W+2.5	253	sgf
1970-05-07,08	Rin Kaiho	Sakata Eio	B+0.5	264	sgf
1970-05-15,16	Sakata Eio	Rin Kaiho	W+6.5	246	sgf
1970-05-27,28	Rin Kaiho	Sakata Eio	B+1.5	240	sgf

Rin Kaiho won 4-0.

League

In the first column the white player, on the top row the black player.

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1.	Fujisawa Hosai	3-4			W+R		W+R		B+R
2.	Kato Masao	5-2	B+R			B+11.5		W+R		W+R
3.	Hisai Keishi	1-6		B+R			B+0.5		W+0.5
4.	Sakata Eio	6-1	W+R		W+1.5			W+R		W+R
5.	Takagawa Shukaku	3-4		B+R		B+R			W+R
6.	Iwata Tatsuaki	3-4	W+8.5		W+8.5		B+3.5			B+0.5
7.	Fujisawa Shuko	2-5		B+R		W+11.5		B+R
8.	Kano Yoshinori	5-2	W+R		W+R		W+0.5		W+R

Hisai Keishi, Fujisawa Shuko, Iwata Tatsuaki and Takagawa Shukaku are demoted.

Demotion Playoff

Each of Takagawa Shukaku, Iwata Tatsuaki and Fujisawa Hosai ended with 3 wins. A playoff determined who of these three remained in the League. Fujisawa Hosai won.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1970-06-17,18	Takagawa Shukaku	Iwata Tatsuaki	B+R	253	sgf
1970-07-01,02	Takagawa Shukaku	Fujisawa Hosai	W+2.5	284	sgf

Preliminaries

The finals of the preliminaries were won by Fujisawa Hosai, Iwata Tatsuaki, Kano Yoshinori, and Hisai Keishi.