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14th Old Meijin title

The first 14 years (1962-1975) the Meijin Title was sponsored by the Yomiuri newspaper. This period is known as "Old Meijin" or "Meijin (Yomiuri)". In 1976 the Asahi newspaper took over, and a new numbering started from 1.

Preliminaries

The finals of the last preliminaries were won by Takagawa Shukaku, Kada Katsuji and Sakata Eio.

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 preliminaries (in some order).

# player result 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1. Rin Kaiho 4-4 B+7 W+2 B+13 W+16
2. Otake Hideo 6-2 W+R W+5 B+R W+R
3. Yamabe Toshiro 4-4 W+R B+R B+R B+R
4. Fujisawa Hosai 3-5 B+5 B+4 B+1 B+R
5. Hashimoto Utaro 4-4 B+3 W+R B+R W+R
6. Fujisawa Shuko 5-3 B+R B+R B+2 W+4
7. Sakata Eio 5-3 B+R B+3 W+R W+R
8. Takagawa Shukaku 3-5 B+F B+R W+0 W+3
9. Kada Katsuji 2-6 W+R W+1 B+R B+R

Kada Katsuji, Takagawa Shukaku, and Fujisawa Hosai are demoted.

14th Old Meijin Title

# date black white result #mv sgf
1 1975-09-10,11 Otake Hideo Ishida Yoshio B+8 214 sgf
2 1975-09-25,26 Ishida Yoshio Otake Hideo B+R 187 sgf
3 1975-10-01,02 Otake Hideo Ishida Yoshio W+R 206 sgf
4 1975-10-15,16 Ishida Yoshio Otake Hideo W+R 186 sgf
5 1975-10-22,23 Otake Hideo Ishida Yoshio W+R 152 sgf
6 1975-10-29,30 Ishida Yoshio Otake Hideo W+R 152 sgf
7 1975-11-12,13 Otake Hideo Ishida Yoshio B+4 303 sgf

Otake Hideo won 4-3.