64th Honinbo title

Preliminary finals

We give the finals of the Last preliminary tournament.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2008-07-10	Hikosaka Naoto	Nakaonoda Tomomi	W+R	186	sgf
2008-07-17	Ogata Masaki	So Yokoku	W+R	138	sgf
2008-07-21	Cho U	Kono Rin	B+0.5	301	sgf
2008-07-31	Kataoka Satoshi	Kobayashi Satoru	B+0.5	290	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.	Takao Shinji	6-1		B+R		W+R		W+R		W+R
2.	Yamada Kimio	5-2			B+R		W+R		W+R
3.	Yamashita Keigo	4-3	B+10.5			B+R		W+R		B+8.5
4.	Yoda Norimoto	2-5		W+R			B+R		B+2.5
5.	Cho U	4-3	B+R		B+R			W+1.5		W+R
6.	Kataoka Satoshi	2-5		B+R		W+R			W+0.5
7.	Nakaonoda Tomomi	1-6	B+R		B+R		B+8.5			B+R
8.	So Yokoku	4-3		B+R		W+1.5		W+R

Demotion Playoff

The bottom four players are demoted: Nakaonoda Tomomi, Kataoka Satoshi, Yoda Norimoto and one more. Cho U and So Yokoku played a demotion playoff, lost by So Yokoku.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2009-04-30	So Yokoku	Cho U	W+R	224	sgf

64th Honinbo Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2009-05-13,14	Takao Shinji	Hane Naoki	W+2.5	262	sgf
2009-05-27,28	Hane Naoki	Takao Shinji	W+R	212	sgf
2009-06-10,11	Takao Shinji	Hane Naoki	W+R	182	sgf
2009-06-18,19	Hane Naoki	Takao Shinji	B+6.5	274	sgf
2009-06-29,30	Takao Shinji	Hane Naoki	B+R	167	sgf
2009-07-15,16	Hane Naoki	Takao Shinji	B+5.5	276	sgf

Hane Naoki won 4-2.