55th Honinbo title

Preliminary finals

We give the finals of the Last preliminary tournament.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1999-07-22	Otake Hideo	Kudo Norio	B+7.5	221	sgf
1999-07-22	Kato Masao	Ryu Shikun	W+R	190	sgf
1999-07-29	Nakamura Hidehito	O Meien	W+R	248	sgf
1999-08-19	Kanda Ei	Rin Kaiho	W+R	176	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	4-3			W+R		B+3.5		W+R
2.	Hikosaka Naoto	3-4	B+R			B+R		B+R		W+2.5
3.	O Rissei	2-5		B+0.5			W+R		B+5.5
4.	Yamada Kimio	4-3	B+R		B+0.5			W+0.5		W+R
5.	Rin Kaiho	2-5		B+3.5		B+R			B+R
6.	Otake Hideo	4-3	W+0.5		W+R		B+R			B+3.5
7.	O Meien	5-2		W+R		W+R		B+2.5
8.	Ryu Shikun	4-3	W+R		W+R		W+4.5		B+3.5

Demotion Playoff

The bottom four players are demoted: O Rissei and Rin Kaiho and Hikosaka Naoto and one more. Ryu Shikun and Otake Hideo played a playoff, lost by Ryu Shikun.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2000-04-13	Ryu Shikun	Otake Hideo	W+0.5	229	sgf

55th Honinbo Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2000-05-24	Cho Sonjin	O Meien	B+R	59	sgf
2000-06-07,08	O Meien	Cho Sonjin	B+0.5	247	sgf
2000-06-21,22	Cho Sonjin	O Meien	W+4.5	224	sgf
2000-06-28,29	O Meien	Cho Sonjin	W+R	166	sgf
2000-07-04,05	Cho Sonjin	O Meien	W+1.5	224	sgf
2000-07-17,18	O Meien	Cho Sonjin	B+10.5	262	sgf

O Meien won 4-2. He lost the first game because of a funny ladder.