26th 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	2000-11-02	Yamashiro Hiroshi	Rin Kaiho	W+R	sgf
Qualification final	2000-11-09	Takao Shinji	Cho Sonjin	W+R	sgf
Qualification final	2000-10-26	Komatsu Hideki	Cho U	B+1.5	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.	Cho Chikun	5-3			W+R		W+R		B+R		B+2.5
2.	O Meien	4-4	B+R			W+1.5		B+R		B+6.5
3.	O Rissei	3-5		B+R			B+1.5		W+6.5		W+R
4.	Hane Naoki	2-6	B+R		W+R			B+R		B+R
5.	Ryu Shikun	5-3		B+1.5		W+3.5			W+4.5		W+R
6.	Kato Masao	4-4	B+3.5		W+0.5		B+0.5			W+3.5
7.	Rin Kaiho	6-2		W+1.5		W+R		W+R			W+0.5
8.	Cho Sonjin	5-3	W+6.5		B+R		W+6.5		B+1.5
9.	Komatsu Hideki	2-6		B+R		B+3.5		W+R		B+R

Komatsu Hideki, Hane Naoki, and O Rissei are demoted.

26th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	2001-09-04,05	Yoda Norimoto	Rin Kaiho	B+2.5	sgf
2	2001-09-19,20	Rin Kaiho	Yoda Norimoto	W+0.5	sgf
3	2001-09-26,27	Yoda Norimoto	Rin Kaiho	W+0.5	sgf
4	2001-10-10,11	Rin Kaiho	Yoda Norimoto	B+5.5	sgf
5	2001-10-17,18	Yoda Norimoto	Rin Kaiho	B+R	sgf
6	2001-10-31,11-01	Rin Kaiho	Yoda Norimoto	W+R	sgf

Yoda Norimoto won 4-2.