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57th Honinbo title

Preliminaries

The finals of the Last preliminary tournament were won by Yamada Kimio, Miyazawa Goro, Otake Hideo, and Kato Masao.

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 U 4-3 B+R B+R W+0.5 W+3.5
2. Cho Sonjin 4-3 B+R B+4.5 B+3.5
3. Cho Chikun 4-3 B+R W+R W+3.5 B+4.5
4. Hane Naoki 4-3 B+0.5 B+2.5 W+R
5. Kato Masao 6-1 W+R W+1.5 W+4.5 W+11.5
6. Otake Hideo 1-6 B+R B+R W+R
7. Miyazawa Goro 2-5 B+R B+R W+R B+R
8. Yamada Kimio 3-4 B+R B+R W+R

Otake Hideo, Miyazawa Goro, Yamada Kimio and Hane Naoki are demoted.

57th Honinbo Title

date black white result #mv sgf
2002-05-13,14 Kato Masao O Meien W+1.5 248 sgf
2002-05-24,25 O Meien Kato Masao B+13.5 269 sgf
2002-06-06,07 Kato Masao O Meien B+R 195 sgf
2002-06-12,13 O Meien Kato Masao W+1.5 237 sgf
2002-06-26,27 Kato Masao O Meien B+R 167 sgf
2002-07-10,11 O Meien Kato Masao W+1.5 244 sgf

Kato Masao won 4-2.