17th 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	1991-10-10	Awaji Shuzo	Kudo Norio	B+7.5	sgf
Qualification final	1991-10-24	Iwata Tatsuaki	O Rissei	B+R	sgf
Qualification final	1991-10-24	Komatsu Hideki	Ishida Yoshio	B+4.5	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.	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.