Honinbo Shusai's Retirement Game

Honinbo Shusai's retirement game was played between him and the winner of a league in which the four 7-dans and the two semifinalists of a 6-dan preliminary participated.

6-Dan Preliminary

In Jan-Apr 1937 a 6-dan preliminary was held, won by Maeda. Go Seigen was ill and did not play.

Mitsuhara Itaro	Maeda Nobuaki W+R 1937-01-13,14	Maeda Nobuaki	Maeda Nobuaki B+4.5 1937	Maeda Nobuaki W+R 1937
Maeda Nobuaki
Go Seigen
Iwamoto Kaoru		Miyasaka Shinji B+8.5 1937
Miyasaka Shinji
Onoda Chiyotaro		Onoda Chiyotaro W+R 1937	Kubomatsu Katsukiyo W+12.5 1937
Hayashi Yutaro
Hashimoto Utaro		Kubomatsu Katsukiyo W+4.5 1937
Kubomatsu Katsukiyo

Challengers' League

In Jun 1937-Apr 1938 a challenger's league was played, won by Kitani.

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6
1.	Kitani Minoru	5-0				W+R		W+2
2.	Kubomatsu Katsukiyo	4-1	B+R
3.	Suzuki Tamejiro	2-3	B+R	B+R		W+3
4.	Segoe Kensaku	2-3		B+R			W+1	W+2
5.	Kato Shin	1-4	B+3	B+R	B+2			W+2
6.	Maeda Nobuaki	1-4		B+R	W+11

Komi was 4 between players of the same rank. For games of different rank the weaker player got one additional point. (I.e., komi was 3 if the weaker player had Black, 5 if he had White.)

The allowed time varied between 11h and 16h, where 16h was the time available in the games of Suzuki Tamejiro.

Honinbo Shusai's Retirement Game

This is the game upon which Kawabata's 'The Master of Go' was based.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
1938-06-26..12-04	Kitani Minoru	Honinbo Shusai	B+5	237	sgf

The game was played on 15 days. Shusai fell ill in August 1938, and the game was suspended for three months. Moves played:

date	06-26	06-27	07-11	07-16	07-21	07-26	07-31	08-05	08-10	08-14
moves	1-2	3-12	13-27	28-43	44-65	66-80	81-88	89-90	91-99	100

date	11-18	11-25	11-28	12-01	12-04
moves	101-105	106-109	110-121	122-145	146-237

Shusai died on 1940-01-18.