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61st Honinbo title

Preliminary finals

We give the finals of the Last preliminary tournament.

date black white result #mv sgf
2005-08-04 Hane Naoki Ishida Atsushi B+2.5 280 sgf
2005-08-11 Ryu Shikun O Rissei W+3.5 271 sgf
2005-08-18 So Yokoku Honda Kunihisa B+R 149 sgf
2005-09-12 Kobayashi Satoru Yamada Kimio W+5.5 281 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 U 4-3 B+3.5 W+R B+R
2. Cho Sonjin 3-4 B+1.5 W+8.5 W+R B+0.5
3. Yoda Norimoto 5-2 W+6.5 B+0.5 W+1.5
4. O Meien 0-7 B+R B+R B+3.5 B+R
5. Hane Naoki 5-2 W+R W+R B+0.5
6. O Rissei 2-5 B+R B+R B+1.5 W+R
7. Yamada Kimio 5-2 B+2.5 W+5.5 W+R
8. So Yokoku 4-3 W+R W+R B+R B+R

O Meien, O Rissei, Cho Sonjin and So Yokoku are demoted.

Challenger Playoff

Three players ended with a 5-2 score: Yoda Norimoto, Hane Naoki and Yamada Kimio. Hane and Yamada had the lowest rank and played a playoff won by Yamada. He also won the second playoff against Yoda.

date black white result #mv sgf
2006-04-03 Yamada Kimio Hane Naoki B+R 125 sgf
2006-04-13 Yamada Kimio Yoda Norimoto B+0.5 245 sgf

61st Honinbo Title

date black white result #mv sgf
2006-05-08,09 Yamada Kimio Takao Shinji W+R 158 sgf
2006-05-29,30 Takao Shinji Yamada Kimio W+R 206 sgf
2006-06-07,08 Yamada Kimio Takao Shinji W+R 166 sgf
2006-06-12,13 Takao Shinji Yamada Kimio B+R 201 sgf
2006-06-26,27 Yamada Kimio Takao Shinji B+R 237 sgf
2006-07-11,12 Takao Shinji Yamada Kimio B+R 179 sgf

Takao Shinji won 4-2.