40th Honinbo title

Preliminary finals

We give the finals of the 3rd preliminary tournament.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1984-09-13	O Rissei	Kataoka Satoshi	W+1.5	262	sgf
1984-09-13	Kada Katsuji	Ishigure Ikuro	B+R	107	sgf
1984-09-13	Shiraishi Yutaka	Ogoshi Ichiro	B+R	121	sgf
1984-09-06	Takagi Shoichi	Kobayashi Koichi	W+R	216	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.	Awaji Shuzo	3-4			W+R		B+R		W+R
2.	Takemiya Masaki	6-1	W+R			B+8.5		W+R		W+R
3.	Iwata Tatsuaki	2-5		B+10.5			B+R		B+5.5
4.	Yamashiro Hiroshi	3-4	W+R		B+R			B+2.5		B+0.5
5.	Kobayashi Koichi	6-1		B+2.5		W+R			W+0.5
6.	Kataoka Satoshi	4-3	W+4.5		B+R		B+R			W+1.5
7.	Kada Katsuji	2-5		B+R		B+5.5		B+R
8.	Shiraishi Yutaka	2-5	B+R		W+0.5		B+R		B+1.5

Shiraishi Yutaka, Kada Katsuji, Iwata Tatsuaki and Yamashiro Hiroshi are demoted.

Challenger Playoff

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1985-05-02	Takemiya Masaki	Kobayashi Koichi	B+R	265	sgf

40th Honinbo Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1985-05-15,16	Takemiya Masaki	Rin Kaiho	B+R	209	sgf
1985-05-29,30	Rin Kaiho	Takemiya Masaki	W+R	186	sgf
1985-06-06,07	Takemiya Masaki	Rin Kaiho	W+9.5	215	sgf
1985-06-19,20	Rin Kaiho	Takemiya Masaki	W+R	220	sgf
1985-06-26,27	Takemiya Masaki	Rin Kaiho	B+2.5	254	sgf

Takemiya Masaki won 4-1.