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51st Honinbo title

Preliminary finals

We give the finals of the Last preliminary tournament.

date black white result #mv sgf
1995-07-13 Miyazawa Goro Goto Shungo B+0.5 328 sgf
1995-07-13 Nakano Hironari Komatsu Hideki B+R 111 sgf
1995-07-27 Sonoda Yuichi Ryu Shikun W+2.5 258 sgf
1995-08-17 Kataoka Satoshi Rin Kaiho B+2.5 231 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. Kato Masao 5-2 B+8.5 B+1.5 W+R
2. Yuki Satoshi 2-5 B+R B+R B+R B+4.5
3. O Rissei 3-4 B+R B+R W+1.5
4. Yo Kagen 4-3 B+R W+1.5 W+2.5 W+0.5
5. Ryu Shikun 5-2 W+R W+R B+4.5
6. Miyazawa Goro 2-5 B+R B+R B+3.5 W+R
7. Kataoka Satoshi 4-3 B+0.5 W+0.5 W+R
8. Nakano Hironari 3-4 B+3.5 W+2.5 W+7.5 B+1.5

Miyazawa Goro, Yuki Satoshi, Nakano Hironari and O Rissei are demoted.

Challenger Playoff

date black white result #mv sgf
1996-04-11 Kato Masao Ryu Shikun W+0.5 276 sgf

51st Honinbo Title

date black white result #mv sgf
1996-05-13,14 Cho Chikun Ryu Shikun B+8.5 233 sgf
1996-05-27,28 Ryu Shikun Cho Chikun W+R 162 sgf
1996-06-10,11 Cho Chikun Ryu Shikun W+R 178 sgf
1996-06-19,20 Ryu Shikun Cho Chikun W+R 190 sgf
1996-07-02,03 Cho Chikun Ryu Shikun W+2.5 266 sgf
1996-07-16,17 Ryu Shikun Cho Chikun W+4.5 264 sgf

Cho Chikun won 4-2.