17th Meijin title

Last Preliminary

The lowest three players from the previous year are demoted from the League, and a qualification tournament with three groups determines which three new players enter the League. This year the three winners were Awaji Shuzo, Iwata Tatsuaki, and Komatsu Hideki.

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 Last Preliminary.

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Rin Kaiho	3-5			B+4.5		W+R		W+R		B+R
2.	Takemiya Masaki	4-4	W+4.5			W+3.5		B+1.5		B+3.5
3.	Cho Chikun	5-3		W+4.5			B+R		W+4.5		W+R
4.	Yoda Norimoto	5-3	W+3.5		B+4.5			B+3.5		W+R
5.	Fujisawa Shuko	2-6		B+R		B+R			B+3.5		B+R
6.	Otake Hideo	7-1	B+R		W+R		W+6.5			W+R
7.	Iwata Tatsuaki	2-6		W+1.5		B+R		B+R			B+6.5
8.	Awaji Shuzo	5-3	W+R		W+R		B+2.5		W+5.5
9.	Komatsu Hideki	3-5		B+R		B+R		B+R		B+R

Iwata Tatsuaki, Fujisawa Shuko, and Komatsu Hideki are demoted.

17th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1992-09-09,10	Kobayashi Koichi	Otake Hideo	B+R	sgf
2	1992-09-24,25	Otake Hideo	Kobayashi Koichi	B+0.5	sgf
3	1992-09-30,10-01	Kobayashi Koichi	Otake Hideo	B+1.5	sgf
4	1992-10-14,15	Otake Hideo	Kobayashi Koichi	B+R	sgf
5	1992-10-21,22	Kobayashi Koichi	Otake Hideo	B+R	sgf
6	1992-11-04,05	Otake Hideo	Kobayashi Koichi	B+3.5	sgf
7	1992-11-11,12	Otake Hideo	Kobayashi Koichi	W+1.5	sgf

Kobayashi Koichi won 4-3.