58th Honinbo title

Preliminaries

The finals of the Last preliminary tournament were won by Ryu Shikun, Kobayashi Koichi, Rin Kaiho, and Yamashita Keigo.

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.	O Meien	6-1			W+R		W+6.5		W+4.5
2.	Cho U	6-1	W+R			W+R		W+R		B+R
3.	Cho Sonjin	2-5		B+4.5			B+3.5		B+5.5
4.	Cho Chikun	2-5	B+R		B+R			W+1.5		B+R
5.	Kobayashi Koichi	3-4		B+11.5		B+5.5			W+R
6.	Rin Kaiho	2-5	B+R		W+R		B+R			B+0.5
7.	Ryu Shikun	2-5		B+R		W+R		B+R
8.	Yamashita Keigo	5-2	B+0.5		B+R		W+4.5		W+R

Rin Kaiho, Ryu Shikun, Cho Chikun, and Cho Sonjin are demoted.

Both O Meien and Cho U had 6 wins. They played a challenger playoff won by Cho U.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2003-04-07	Cho U	O Meien	B+5.5	311	sgf

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2003-05-14,15	Kato Masao	Cho U	B+R	183	sgf
2003-05-26,27	Cho U	Kato Masao	B+R	205	sgf
2003-06-02,03	Kato Masao	Cho U	B+R	203	sgf
2003-06-16,17	Cho U	Kato Masao	B+R	223	sgf
2003-06-25,26	Kato Masao	Cho U	W+5.5	260	sgf
2003-07-10,11	Cho U	Kato Masao	B+9.5	335	sgf

Cho U won 4-2.