33rd 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.

Shuto Shun		Shuto Shun	Kono Rin W+5.5 2007-10-04	Iyama Yuta W+R 2007-10-25
Honda Kunihisa
Nakamura Hidehito	Kono Rin B+R 2007-08-09	Kono Rin B+R 2007-09-20
Kono Rin
Han Zenki
Yata Naoki		Nakaonoda Tomomi	Iyama Yuta
Nakaonoda Tomomi
Iyama Yuta		Iyama Yuta W+1.5 2007-08-30
Yamashita Keigo
Ueki Yoshio		Yuki Satoshi	Ogata Masaki	Chin Kaei W+R 2007-11-01
Yuki Satoshi
Ogata Masaki	Ogata Masaki	Ogata Masaki
Imamura Toshiya
Mizokami Tomochika
Ogaki Yusaku	Hane Naoki	Hane Naoki	Chin Kaei
Hane Naoki
So Yokoku
Chin Kaei		Chin Kaei
Mimura Tomoyasu
Yamada Takuji		Kobayashi Koichi B+R 2007-08-23	Sonoda Yuichi B+R 2007-09-27	Cho Chikun B+4.5 2007-10-25
Kobayashi Koichi
Katayama Yasuo	Kurotaki Masanori	Sonoda Yuichi
Kurotaki Masanori
Sonoda Yuichi
Sato Masaharu	Cho Chikun W+R 2007-08-09	Cho Chikun W+R 2007-08-30	Cho Chikun W+R 2007-09-27
Cho Chikun
O Meien
Cho Sonjin		Cho Sonjin
Hikosaka Naoto

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.	Takao Shinji	4-4		W+R		W+R		B+R		W+R
2.	Yamada Kimio	5-3			W+0.5		B+R		B+2.5		W+1.5
3.	Sakai Hideyuki	4-4	W+2.5			B+0.5		W+2.5		W+R
4.	Kobayashi Satoru	4-4		B+R			W+2.5		W+1.5		B+R
5.	Yoda Norimoto	4-4	W+2.5		B+7.5			B+1.5		W+R
6.	Ko Iso	4-4		B+3.5		W+0.5			B+R		B+R
7.	Cho Chikun	5-3	B+R		W+R		W+1.5			W+R
8.	Chin Kaei	0-8		B+R		B+R		B+R			B+2.5
9.	Iyama Yuta	6-2	W+4.5		W+3.5		B+R		W+R

Chin Kaei, Ko Iso, and Yoda Norimoto are demoted.

33rd Meijin Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2008-09-04,05	Cho U	Iyama Yuta	W+5.5	265	sgf
2008-09-17,18	Iyama Yuta	Cho U	B+0.5	292	sgf
2008-09-24,25	Cho U	Iyama Yuta	B+R	225	sgf
2008-10-08,09	Iyama Yuta	Cho U	W+R	164	sgf
2008-10-15,16	Cho U	Iyama Yuta	B+0.5	242	sgf
2008-10-30,31	Iyama Yuta	Cho U	B+R	99	sgf
2008-11-05,06	Iyama Yuta	Cho U	W+R	236	sgf

Cho U won 4-3.