35th 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 Yuki Satoshi, O Meien, and Mizokami Tomochika.

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.	Cho U	6-2		W+R		W+3.5		W+R		B+R
2.	Yamada Kimio	2-6			B+R		W+R		B+5.5		B+R
3.	Takao Shinji	7-1	B+R			W+1.5		W+7.5		W+R
4.	Sakai Hideyuki	4-4		W+R			W+R		B+0.5		B+3.5
5.	Ogata Masaki	2-6	W+2.5		B+R			B+11.5		W+1.5
6.	Cho Chikun	3-5		B+0.5		B+R			W+R		W+R
7.	O Meien	3-5	B+R		B+R		W+R			B+R
8.	Yuki Satoshi	5-3		W+R		B+R		W+R			W+3.5
9.	Mizokami Tomochika	4-4	B+8.5		B+R		W+1.5		W+R

Ogata Masaki, Yamada Kimio, and O Meien are demoted.

35th Meijin Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2010-09-01,02	Takao Shinji	Iyama Yuta	W+6.5	305	sgf
2010-09-16,17	Iyama Yuta	Takao Shinji	B+5.5	263	sgf
2010-09-22,23	Takao Shinji	Iyama Yuta	W+R	170	sgf
2010-10-06,07	Iyama Yuta	Takao Shinji	B+R	265	sgf

Iyama Yuta won 4-0.