39th Honinbo title

Preliminary finals

We give the finals of the 3rd preliminary tournament.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1983-08-18	Takagi Shoichi	Kato Masao	B+R	151	sgf
1983-09-01	Shiraishi Yutaka	Sakata Eio	W+R	124	sgf
1983-09-01	Yamashiro Hiroshi	Sonoda Yuichi	B+4.5	278	sgf
1983-09-22	Kataoka Satoshi	Awaji Shuzo	W+5.5	265	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.	Cho Chikun	1-6			B+R		B+R		B+R
2.	Kobayashi Koichi	3-4	B+5.5			W+R		W+3.5		B+1.5
3.	Takemiya Masaki	4-3		B+R			B+R		B+2.5
4.	Iwata Tatsuaki	4-3	W+R		B+3.5			W+2.5		W+R
5.	Sakata Eio	4-3		W+10.5		B+13.5			B+3.5
6.	Takagi Shoichi	3-4	W+R		B+R		W+10.5			B+6.5
7.	Awaji Shuzo	5-2		W+1.5		W+R		B+R
8.	Yamashiro Hiroshi	4-3	W+R		B+R		B+R		W+R

Demotion Playoff

The bottom four players are demoted: Cho Chikun, Takagi Shoichi, Kobayashi Koichi, and one more. Yamashiro Hiroshi and Sakata Eio played a demotion playoff lost by Sakata Eio.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1984-05-10	Yamashiro Hiroshi	Sakata Eio	B+9.5	235	sgf

39th Honinbo Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1984-05-16,17	Awaji Shuzo	Rin Kaiho	W+R	246	sgf
1984-05-30,31	Rin Kaiho	Awaji Shuzo	W+R	240	sgf
1984-06-07,08	Awaji Shuzo	Rin Kaiho	W+2.5	240	sgf
1984-06-20,21	Rin Kaiho	Awaji Shuzo	B+R	133	sgf
1984-06-28,29	Awaji Shuzo	Rin Kaiho	W+R	160	sgf

Rin Kaiho won 4-1.