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21st Woman's Meijin title

This year introduced a new format, where the challenger was determined by a 7-player league.

League

Results (in the first column the white player, on the top row the black player).

# player result 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1. Kato Keiko 3-3 W+R B+R W+R
2. Kobayashi Izumi 1-5 B+R B+R B+R
3. Umezawa Yukari 3-3 W+R W+R W+4.5
4. Suzuki Ayumi 4-2 W+0.5 W+1.5 B+2.5
5. Yoshida Mika 3-3 B+R W+R B+
6. Chinen Kaori 4-2 W+R W+4.5 B+R
7. Mukai Chiaki 3-3 W+R B+2.5 W+4.5

Kobayashi Izumi, Yoshida Mika and Mukai Chiaki are demoted.

21st Woman's Meijin Title

date black white result #mv sgf
2009-03-04 Chinen Kaori Xie Yimin W+R 230 sgf
2009-03-17 Xie Yimin Chinen Kaori W+3.5 290 sgf
2009-04-01 Xie Yimin Chinen Kaori B+R 207 sgf

Xie Yimin won with 2-1.