60th Honinbo title

Preliminaries

The finals of the Last preliminary tournament were won by Takao Shinji, O Meien, So Yokoku, and Han Zenki.

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.	Yoda Norimoto	4-3		W+2.5		W+R		B+1.5		W+R
2.	Mimura Tomoyasu	2-5			B+5.5		B+R		W+R
3.	O Rissei	2-5	B+1.5			B+R		B+R		W+R
4.	Cho Sonjin	6-1		W+R			W+R		W+R
5.	O Meien	4-3	W+2.5		W+0.5			B+0.5		W+4.5
6.	Takao Shinji	6-1		W+R		B+0.5			W+R
7.	So Yokoku	4-3	W+R		W+R		W+R			W+R
8.	Han Zenki	0-7		B+3.5		B+R		B+R

Demotion Playoff

The bottom four players are demoted: Han Zenki, O Rissei, Mimura Tomoyasu and one more. So Yokoku and O Meien played a demotion playoff lost by So Yokoku.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2005-04-14	So Yokoku	O Meien	W+R	178	sgf

Challenger Playoff

Both Takao Shinji and Cho Sonjin had 6 wins. They played a challenger playoff won by Takao Shinji.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2005-04-04	Takao Shinji	Cho Sonjin	B+R	111	sgf

60th Honinbo Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2005-05-09,10	Cho U	Takao Shinji	W+R	232	sgf
2005-05-26,27	Takao Shinji	Cho U	B+4.5	315	sgf
2005-06-08,09	Cho U	Takao Shinji	W+R	262	sgf
2005-06-20,21	Takao Shinji	Cho U	W+R	218	sgf
2005-06-27,28	Cho U	Takao Shinji	W+0.5	305	sgf

Takao Shinji won 4-1.