62nd Honinbo title

Preliminary finals

We give the finals of the Last preliminary tournament.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2006-07-27	Rin Shien	O Meien	W+1.5	241	sgf
2006-08-03	Iyama Yuta	Cho Sonjin	W+R	222	sgf
2006-08-17	Cho Chikun	Kobayashi Satoru	W+R	242	sgf
2006-08-31	So Yokoku	Sakai Hideyuki	B+6.5	241	sgf

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.	Yamada Kimio	4-3		B+R		W+0.5		B+R		W+R
2.	Yoda Norimoto	5-2			W+R		W+R		W+R
3.	Hane Naoki	3-4	B+R			W+R		W+R		B+R
4.	Cho U	4-3		W+2.5			W+3.5		W+R
5.	Kobayashi Satoru	1-6	B+R		B+3.5			B+R		B+R
6.	O Meien	3-4		B+3.5		B+0.5			W+R
7.	Cho Sonjin	3-4	W+R		W+R		B+R			W+R
8.	So Yokoku	5-2		W+2.5		W+0.5		W+R

Kobayashi Satoru, Cho Sonjin, O Meien, and Hane Naoki are demoted.

Both Yoda Norimoto and So Yokoku had 5 wins. They played a challenger playoff won by Yoda Norimoto.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2007-04-08	Yoda Norimoto	So Yokoku	B+R	127	sgf

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2007-05-10,11	Takao Shinji	Yoda Norimoto	B+0.5	282	sgf
2007-05-22,23	Yoda Norimoto	Takao Shinji	B+1.5	343	sgf
2007-06-06,07	Takao Shinji	Yoda Norimoto	B+R	187	sgf
2007-06-18,19	Yoda Norimoto	Takao Shinji	W+5.5	255	sgf
2007-06-25,26	Takao Shinji	Yoda Norimoto	B+2.5	207	sgf

Takao Shinji won 4-1.