10th Meijin title

Newcomers

The lowest three players from the previous year are demoted, and entrance matches determine which three new players enter the League.

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
Qualification final	1984-10-18	Yoda Norimoto	Sato Masaharu	B+R	sgf
Qualification final	1984-11-01	Honda Kunihisa	Ohira Shuzo	W+R	sgf
Qualification final	1984-11-08	Takemiya Masaki	Yamashiro Hiroshi	W+R	sgf

League

Results (in the first column the white player, on the top row the black player). The ordering of the first six players is according to their results in the previous year. The last three are the winners of the entrance matches.

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Otake Hideo	6-2			W+R		B+0.5		W+R		W+R
2.	Kobayashi Koichi	7-1	W+2.5			W+1.5		B+5.5		W+2.5
3.	Ishida Akira	5-3		B+R			W+5.5		W+R		W+R
4.	Takagi Shoichi	2-6	B+R		B+R			B+2.5		B+2.5
5.	Rin Kaiho	5-3		B+R		W+R			W+3.5		W+4.5
6.	Kato Masao	6-2	B+2.5		W+R		W+R			W+R
7.	Ohira Shuzo	2-6		B+7.5		B+1.5		W+3.5			W+R
8.	Yamashiro Hiroshi	2-6	B+R		B+R		B+R		W+7.5
9.	Yoda Norimoto	1-7		B+0.5		B+R		B+R		W+2.5

Yoda Norimoto, Yamashiro Hiroshi, and Ohira Shuzo are demoted.

10th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1985-09-11,12	Kobayashi Koichi	Cho Chikun	B+5.5	sgf
2	1985-09-25,26	Cho Chikun	Kobayashi Koichi	B+R	sgf
3	1985-10-02,03	Kobayashi Koichi	Cho Chikun	B+R	sgf
4	1985-10-16,17	Cho Chikun	Kobayashi Koichi	W+R	sgf
5	1985-10-23,24	Kobayashi Koichi	Cho Chikun	W+2.5	sgf
6	1985-11-06,07	Cho Chikun	Kobayashi Koichi	B+2.5	sgf
7	1985-11-20,21	Kobayashi Koichi	Cho Chikun	B+R	sgf

Kobayashi Koichi won 4-3.