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Asahi Pro Best Ten title results
The Asahi Pro Best Ten (プロ十傑戦) was a tournament sponsored
by Asahi Shimbun and held from 1964 to 1975.
Here we give the games and results of the finals.
For editions 1-6 the final was a best-of-three, for editions 7-12
a best-of-five match. Komi was 5.5. Time 6h.
For details on the separate years, see the links in the first column.
| Nr | Year | Winner | Opponent |
Score | Games |
| 1 | 1964 | Sakata Eio (9d) | Takagawa Kaku (9d) |
2-0 |
1
2
|
| 2 | 1965 | Fujisawa Shuko (9d) | Takagawa Kaku (9d) |
2-1 |
1
2
3
|
| 3 | 1966 | Rin Kaiho (8d) | Takagawa Kaku (9d) |
2-0 |
1
2
|
| 4 | 1967 | Sakata Eio (9d) | Takagawa Kaku (9d) |
2-0 |
1
2
|
| 5 | 1968 | Fujisawa Shuko (9d) | Sakata Eio (9d) |
2-1 |
1
2
3
|
| 6 | 1969 | Sakata Eio (9d) | Rin Kaiho (9d) |
2-0 |
1
2
|
| 7 | 1970 | Hashimoto Utaro (9d) | Kato Masao (6d) |
3-0 |
1
2
3
|
| 8 | 1971 | Ishida Yoshio (7d) | Kajiwara Takeo (9d) |
3-2 |
1
2
3
4
5
|
| 9 | 1972 | Ishida Yoshio (7d) | Iwata Tatsuaki (9d) |
3-1 |
1
2
3
4
|
| 10 | 1973 | Rin Kaiho (9d) | Hashimoto Utaro (9d) |
3-1 |
1
2
3
4
|
| 11 | 1974 | Rin Kaiho (9d) | Takemiya Masaki (7d) |
3-0 |
1
2
3
|
| 12 | 1975 | Cho Chikun (6d) | Kato Masao (8d) |
3-0 |
1
2
3
|
Rankings
The tournament resulted not only in a winner, but (after a series of playoffs)
in a ranking of the top 10 players. The rankings were as follows.
| Nr | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 |
#6 | #7 | #8 | #9 | #10 |
|---|
| 1 |
Sakata Eio | Takagawa Shukaku | Fujisawa Hosai | Kitani Minoru | Sato Sunao |
Fujisawa Shuko | Otake Hideo | Shimamura Toshihiro | Yamabe Toshiro | Maeda Nobuaki |
| 2 |
Fujisawa Shuko | Takagawa Shukaku | Otake Hideo | Sakata Eio | Rin Kaiho |
Shimamura Toshihiro | Sugiuchi Masao | Kitani Minoru | Miyashita Shuyo | Sato Sunao |
| 3 |
Rin Kaiho | Takagawa Shukaku | Fujisawa Shuko | Shimamura Toshihiro | Sakata Eio |
Hashimoto Shoji | Otake Hideo | Handa Dogen | Ohira Shuzo | Maeda Nobuaki |
| 4 |
Sakata Eio | Takagawa Shukaku | Otake Hideo | Miyashita Shuyo | Rin Kaiho |
Fujisawa Shuko | Sugiuchi Masao | Yamabe Toshiro | Ohira Shuzo | Fujisawa Hosai |
| 5 |
Fujisawa Shuko | Sakata Eio | Yamabe Toshiro | Takagawa Shukaku | Rin Kaiho |
Go Seigen | Miyashita Shuyo | Takemiya Masaki | Hashimoto Shoji | Handa Dogen |
| 6 |
Sakata Eio | Rin Kaiho | Takagawa Shukaku | Fujisawa Shuko | Takemiya Masaki |
Hashimoto Shoji | Otake Hideo | Hisai Keishi | Hashimoto Utaro | Honda Kunihisa |
| 7 |
Hashimoto Utaro | Kato Masao | Otake Hideo | Ishida Yoshio | Go Seigen |
Kajiwara Takeo | Hashimoto Shoji | Chino Tadahiko | Takagawa Shukaku | Sakata Eio |
| 8 |
Ishida Yoshio | Kajiwara Takeo | Rin Kaiho | Otake Hideo | Hashimoto Shoji |
Hashimoto Utaro | Sakata Eio | Kitani Reiko | Fujisawa Shuko | Takagawa Shukaku |
| 9 |
Ishida Yoshio | Iwata Tatsuaki | Sakata Eio | Hashimoto Utaro | Shimamura Toshihiro |
Handa Dogen | Sugiuchi Masao | Fujisawa Shuko | Takemiya Masaki | Takagawa Shukaku |
| 10 |
Rin Kaiho | Hashimoto Utaro | Takagawa Shukaku | Fujisawa Hosai | Sakata Eio |
Sugiuchi Masao | Ishida Yoshio | Cho Chikun | Otake Hideo | Hane Yasumasa |
| 11 |
Rin Kaiho | Takemiya Masaki | Kato Masao | Ishida Yoshio | Hashimoto Utaro |
Hane Yasumasa | Otake Hideo | Sakata Eio | Ohira Shuzo | Cho Chikun |
| 12 |
Cho Chikun | Kato Masao | Rin Kaiho | Kobayashi Koichi | Fujisawa Shuko |
Kajiwara Takeo | Otake Hideo | Hashimoto Shoji | Sakata Eio | Ohira Shuzo |