29th 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
Group 1 Final	2003-11-06	Katayama Yasuo	Imamura Toshiya	W+3.5	sgf
Group 2 Final	2003-10-30	Takao Shinji	Yamada Kimio	W+R	sgf
Group 3 Final	2003-11-06	Hane Naoki	Kobayashi Satoru	W+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.	Yamashita Keigo	4-4		W+R		B+R		W+1.5		B+2.5
2.	Rin Kaiho	3-5			B+R		W+R		W+3.5		B+3.5
3.	Cho U	6-2	B+R			W+1.5		B+5.5		W+R
4.	O Rissei	3-5		W+5.5			B+R		B+R		B+R
5.	Cho Chikun	1-7	B+R		B+R			B+R		B+R
6.	O Meien	4-4		W+R		B+R			B+2.5		W+2.5
7.	Kobayashi Satoru	6-2	W+4.5		B+0.5		W+R			W+R
8.	Imamura Toshiya	5-3		B+0.5		W+R		W+R			W+R
9.	Yamada Kimio	4-4	W+R		B+R		W+0.5		B+R

Cho Chikun, O Rissei, and Rin Kaiho are demoted.

Playoff

Cho U and Kobayashi Satoru both had 6 wins, and played a challenger playoff that was won by Cho U.

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
Challengers' Final	2004-08-09	Cho U	Kobayashi Satoru	B+2.5	sgf

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1	2004-09-09,10	Yoda Norimoto	Cho U	B+0.5	sgf
2	2004-09-22,23	Cho U	Yoda Norimoto	B+3.5	sgf
3	2004-09-29,30	Yoda Norimoto	Cho U	B+R	sgf
4	2004-10-13,14	Cho U	Yoda Norimoto	B+7.5	sgf
5	2004-10-21,22	Yoda Norimoto	Cho U	W+4.5	sgf
6	2004-11-03,04	Cho U	Yoda Norimoto	B+1.5	sgf

Cho U won 4-2.