43rd Honinbo title

Preliminary finals

We give the finals of the 3rd preliminary tournament.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1987-08-27	Otake Hideo	Ishida Yoshio	B+R	189	sgf
1987-09-03	Hane Yasumasa	Takagi Shoichi	W+1.5	236	sgf
1987-09-03	Kato Masao	Fujisawa Shuko	B+R	165	sgf
1987-09-03	Ohira Shuzo	Sato Sunao	W+R	256	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.	Yamashiro Hiroshi	4-3		W+R		B+R		B+R		B+R
2.	Cho Chikun	2-5			B+R		B+R		W+R
3.	Rin Kaiho	3-4	B+0.5			B+R		B+R		W+0.5
4.	Kobayashi Koichi	5-2		B+7.5			W+0.5		W+R
5.	Kato Masao	4-3	B+4.5		W+6.5			B+R		W+5.5
6.	Otake Hideo	6-1		W+2.5		B+R			W+R
7.	Sato Sunao	0-7	B+1.5		B+R		B+R			B+R
8.	Takagi Shoichi	4-3		W+R		W+0.5		B+R

Demotion Playoff

The bottom four players are demoted: Sato Sunao, Cho Chikun, Rin Kaiho and one more. Kato Masao and Takagi Shoichi played a demotion playoff lost by Takagi Shoichi.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1988-05-02	Kato Masao	Takagi Shoichi	B+5.5	277	sgf

43rd Honinbo Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1988-05-10,11	Takemiya Masaki	Otake Hideo	W+R	176	sgf
1988-05-26,27	Otake Hideo	Takemiya Masaki	W+R	130	sgf
1988-06-08,09	Takemiya Masaki	Otake Hideo	B+4.5	221	sgf
1988-06-16,17	Otake Hideo	Takemiya Masaki	B+6.5	240	sgf
1988-06-29,30	Takemiya Masaki	Otake Hideo	B+R	161	sgf
1988-07-06,07	Otake Hideo	Takemiya Masaki	B+R	163	sgf
1988-07-20,21 or 22	Takemiya Masaki	Otake Hideo	B+R	189	sgf

Takemiya Masaki won 4-3.