59th Honinbo title

Preliminaries

The finals of the Last preliminary tournament were won by Yoda Norimoto, O Rissei, Cho Sonjin, and Mimura Tomoyasu.

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	2-5			B+2.5		B+R		B+3.5
2.	O Meien	2-5	W+11.5			B+5.5		W+R		B+R
3.	Yamashita Keigo	3-4		W+R			B+R		B+6.5
4.	Kobayashi Koichi	3-4	B+R		W+1.5			B+2.5		B+1.5
5.	Yoda Norimoto	5-2		W+6.5		W+6.5			W+1.5
6.	O Rissei	4-3	W+0.5		W+3.5		W+2.5			B+R
7.	Cho Sonjin	4-3		W+2.5		B+R		W+R
8.	Mimura Tomoyasu	5-2	B+R		B+R		W+2.5		W+R

O Meien, Kato Masao, Kobayashi Koichi, and Yamashita Keigo are demoted.

Both Yoda Norimoto and Mimura Tomoyasu had 5 wins. They played a challenger playoff won by Yoda Norimoto.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2004-04-05	Yoda Norimoto	Mimura Tomoyasu	B+2.5	266	sgf

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2004-05-07,08	Yoda Norimoto	Cho U	W+0.5	268	sgf
2004-05-24,25	Cho U	Yoda Norimoto	B+R	159	sgf
2004-05-31,06-01	Yoda Norimoto	Cho U	B+R	247	sgf
2004-06-17,18	Cho U	Yoda Norimoto	B+7.5	281	sgf
2004-06-24,25	Yoda Norimoto	Cho U	B+R	203	sgf
2004-07-08,09	Cho U	Yoda Norimoto	B+0.5	246	sgf

Cho U won 4-2.