18th 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	1992-10-15	Miyazawa Goro	Fujisawa Shuko	B+0.5	sgf
Qualification final	1992-10-22	Ohira Shuzo	Kato Masao	W+2.5	sgf
Qualification final	1992-10-22	Komatsu Hideki	Kataoka Satoshi	W+3.5	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.	Otake Hideo	7-1		B+R		W+R		W+0.5		W+R
2.	Cho Chikun	6-2			B+R		B+R		W+2.5		W+R
3.	Yoda Norimoto	4-4	B+2.5			W+5.5		B+7.5		W+2.5
4.	Awaji Shuzo	1-7		B+R			B+2.5		B+4.5		B+R
5.	Takemiya Masaki	5-3	B+2.5		W+6.5			W+1.5		W+R
6.	Rin Kaiho	4-4		B+1.5		W+R			B+5.5		W+R
7.	Kato Masao	4-4	B+2.5		B+3.5		W+1.5			B+R
8.	Miyazawa Goro	1-7		B+R		B+R		B+R			B+R
9.	Kataoka Satoshi	4-4	B+R		W+0.5		W+F		B+R

Demotion Playoff

Kataoka Satoshi and Kato Masao both had 4 wins, and played a demotion playoff that was won by Kato Masao.

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
Demotion playoff	1993-08-16	Kataoka Satoshi	Kato Masao	W+2.5	sgf

Miyazawa Goro, Awaji Shuzo, and Kataoka Satoshi are demoted.

18th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1993-09-01,02	Otake Hideo	Kobayashi Koichi	W+1.5	sgf
2	1993-09-15,16	Kobayashi Koichi	Otake Hideo	B+1.5	sgf
3	1993-09-29,30	Otake Hideo	Kobayashi Koichi	B+6.5	sgf
4	1993-10-06,07	Kobayashi Koichi	Otake Hideo	B+R	sgf
5	1993-10-20,21	Otake Hideo	Kobayashi Koichi	W+R	sgf

Kobayashi Koichi won 4-1.