43rd 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 Yu Zhengqi, Shibano Toramaru, and Hane Naoki.

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.	Takao Shinji	2-6			B+2.5		B+R		B+R		W+R
2.	Yamashita Keigo	4-4	W+R			B+R		W+R		W+R
3.	Murakawa Daisuke	3-5		B+R			B+R		W+R		B+2.5
4.	Cho U	8-0	W+R		W+R			W+R		W+4.5
5.	Kono Rin	4-4		W+R		B+R			B+R		B+3.5
6.	Ko Iso	2-6	B+R		B+R		W+1.5			W+R
7.	Hane Naoki	4-4		W+R		B+R		W+R			B+3.5
8.	Yu Zhengqi	3-5	W+R		W+R		B+R		W+R
9.	Shibano Toramaru	6-2		W+2.5		B+R		W+R		W+R

Ko Iso, Takao Shinji, and Yu Zhengqi are demoted.

43rd Meijin Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2018-08-28,29	Iyama Yuta	Cho U	B+R	239	sgf
2018-09-12.13	Cho U	Iyama Yuta	W+2.5	336	sgf
2018-09-25,26	Iyama Yuta	Cho U	W+4.5	278	sgf
2018-10-10,11	Cho U	Iyama Yuta	W+R	188	sgf
2018-10-15,16	Iyama Yuta	Cho U	W+9.5	284	sgf
2018-10-22,23	Cho U	Iyama Yuta	B+R	195	sgf
2018-11-01,02	Iyama Yuta	Cho U	W+4.5	271	sgf

Cho U won 4-3.