31st 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 Han Zenki, Ko Iso, and Takao Shinji.

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.	Kobayashi Satoru	4-4			B+4.5		B+R		B+R		W+R
2.	Yamashita Keigo	5-3	B+0.5			W+R		W+7.5		B+4.5
3.	Imamura Toshiya	2-6		B+R			B+R		W+6.5		B+3.5
4.	Yamada Kimio	4-4	W+R		W+4.5			B+0.5		W+R
5.	Sakai Hideyuki	5-3		B+R		W+R			B+R		B+0.5
6.	Yoda Norimoto	4-4	B+2.5		W+R		B+R			B+0.5
7.	Takao Shinji	6-2		W+0.5		W+R		B+2.5			W+R
8.	Han Zenki	4-4	B+R		W+R		B+0.5		B+R
9.	Ko Iso	2-6		B+5.5		B+R		B+R		B+R

Ko Iso, Imamura Toshiya, and Han Zenki are demoted.

31st Meijin Title

1	2006-09-08,09	Takao Shinji	Cho U	B+0.5	sgf
2	2006-09-20,21	Cho U	Takao Shinji	W+R	sgf
3	2006-09-28,29	Takao Shinji	Cho U	W+R	sgf
4	2006-10-11,12	Cho U	Takao Shinji	W+0.5	sgf
5	2006-10-18,19	Takao Shinji	Cho U	W+R	sgf
6	2006-11-02,03	Cho U	Takao Shinji	W+3.5	sgf

Takao Shinji won 4-2.