38th Honinbo title

Preliminary finals

We give the finals of the 3rd preliminary tournament.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1982-08-26	Takagawa Shukaku	Fujisawa Shuko	W+R	148	sgf
1982-09-02	Ishida Akira	Rin Kaiho	W+R	134	sgf
1982-09-09	Hane Yasumasa	Iwata Tatsuaki	W+0.5	283	sgf
1982-09-16	Otake Hideo	Awaji Shuzo	W+R	166	sgf

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.	Kobayashi Koichi	6-1			W+R		W+R		W+6.5
2.	Hashimoto Shoji	0-7	B+8.5			B+R		B+10.5		B+1.5
3.	Takemiya Masaki	4-3		W+R			W+R		B+R
4.	Sakata Eio	3-4	B+R		B+7.5			B+8.5		W+R
5.	Fujisawa Shuko	1-6		W+1.5		B+F			B+1.5
6.	Rin Kaiho	6-1	B+12.5		W+R		W+R			W+R
7.	Iwata Tatsuaki	4-3		W+2.5		W+R		B+R
8.	Awaji Shuzo	4-3	W+R		B+R		W+R		W+R

Demotion Playoff

The bottom four players are demoted: Hashimoto Shoji, Fujisawa Shuko, Sakata Eio and one more. Iwata Tatsuaki and Awaji Shuzo played a demotion playoff lost by Awaji Shuzo.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1983-05-05	Awaji Shuzo	Iwata Tatsuaki	W+R	194	sgf

Challenger Playoff

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1983-05-02	Rin Kaiho	Kobayashi Koichi	B+0.5	234	sgf

38th Honinbo Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1983-05-16,17	Rin Kaiho	Cho Chikun	W+R	190	sgf
1983-05-25,26	Cho Chikun	Rin Kaiho	B+R	191	sgf
1983-06-08,09	Rin Kaiho	Cho Chikun	W+7.5	253	sgf
1983-06-22,23	Cho Chikun	Rin Kaiho	W+R	232	sgf
1983-06-29,30	Rin Kaiho	Cho Chikun	B+R	249	sgf
1983-07-14,15	Cho Chikun	Rin Kaiho	W+R	152	sgf
1983-07-27,28	Rin Kaiho	Cho Chikun	B+R	229	sgf

Rin Kaiho won 4-3.