| # | player | result | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Sakata Eio | 4-3 | B+R | W+R | W+3.5 | |||||
| 2. | Kato Masao | 5-2 | B+R | |||||||
| 3. | Kano Yoshinori | 2-5 | W+R | B+5.5 | B+R | |||||
| 4. | Fujisawa Hosai | 5-2 | W+R | |||||||
| 5. | Ishida Yoshio | 6-1 | W+9.5 | B+1.5 | W+0.5 | W+R | ||||
| 6. | Fujisawa Shuko | 3-4 | B+0.5 | B+R | B+R | W+R | ||||
| 7. | Hoshino Toshi | 2-5 | ||||||||
| 8. | Chino Tadahiko | 1-6 | B+R | B+R |
| # | player | result | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ishida Yoshio | 6-1 | W+0.5 | W+R | B+1.5 | W+9.5 | ||||
| 2. | Fujisawa Hosai | 5-2 | W+R | |||||||
| 3. | Fujisawa Shuko | 3-4 | B+R | W+R | B+R | B+0.5 | ||||
| 4. | Hoshino Toshi | 2-5 | ||||||||
| 5. | Chino Tadahiko | 1-6 | B+R | B+R | ||||||
| 6. | Kato Masao | 5-2 | B+R | |||||||
| 7. | Kano Yoshinori | 2-5 | B+5.5 | B+R | W+R | |||||
| 8. | Sakata Eio | 4-3 | W+R | W+3.5 | B+R |
Chino Tadahiko, Hoshino Toshi, Kano Yoshinori, and Fujisawa Shuko are demoted.
| date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-04-26,27 | Rin Kaiho | Ishida Yoshio | B+R | 163 | sgf |
| 1971-05-06,07 | Ishida Yoshio | Rin Kaiho | B+1.5 | 251 | sgf |
| 1971-05-18,19 | Rin Kaiho | Ishida Yoshio | B+R | 195 | sgf |
| 1971-05-31,06-01 | Ishida Yoshio | Rin Kaiho | B+R | 183 | sgf |
| 1971-06-10,11 | Rin Kaiho | Ishida Yoshio | W+R | 218 | sgf |
| 1971-06-21,22 | Ishida Yoshio | Rin Kaiho | B+0.5 | 241 | sgf |
Ishida won 4-2.
There is a very detailed commentary on this title match, The 1971 Honinbo Tournament, by Kaoro Iwamoto (and James C. Davies), Ishi Press, 1976. It contains an analysis of these six games, the seven preceding League games by Ishida, and his last game in the Preliminaries.