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61st Honinbo title

Preliminary finals

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2005-08-04	Hane Naoki	Ishida Atsushi	B+2.5	280	sgf
2005-08-11	Ryu Shikun	O Rissei	W+3.5	271	sgf
2005-08-18	So Yokoku	Honda Kunihisa	B+R	149	sgf
2005-09-12	Kobayashi Satoru	Yamada Kimio	W+5.5	281	sgf

League

In the first column the white player, on the top row the black player.

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1.	Cho U	4-3			B+3.5		W+R		B+R
2.	Cho Sonjin	3-4	B+1.5			W+8.5		W+R		B+0.5
3.	Yoda Norimoto	5-2		W+6.5			B+0.5		W+1.5
4.	O Meien	0-7	B+R		B+R			B+3.5		B+R
5.	Hane Naoki	5-2		W+R		W+R			B+0.5
6.	O Rissei	2-5	B+R		B+R		B+1.5			W+R
7.	Yamada Kimio	5-2		B+2.5		W+5.5		W+R
8.	So Yokoku	4-3	W+R		W+R		B+R		B+R

O Meien, O Rissei, Cho Sonjin and So Yokoku are demoted.

Challenger Playoff

Three players ended with a 5-2 score: Yoda Norimoto, Hane Naoki and Yamada Kimio. Hane and Yamada had the lowest rank and played a playoff won by Yamada. He also won the second playoff against Yoda.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2006-04-03	Yamada Kimio	Hane Naoki	B+R	125	sgf
2006-04-13	Yamada Kimio	Yoda Norimoto	B+0.5	245	sgf

61st Honinbo Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2006-05-08,09	Yamada Kimio	Takao Shinji	W+R	158	sgf
2006-05-29,30	Takao Shinji	Yamada Kimio	W+R	206	sgf
2006-06-07,08	Yamada Kimio	Takao Shinji	W+R	166	sgf
2006-06-12,13	Takao Shinji	Yamada Kimio	B+R	201	sgf
2006-06-26,27	Yamada Kimio	Takao Shinji	B+R	237	sgf
2006-07-11,12	Takao Shinji	Yamada Kimio	B+R	179	sgf

Takao Shinji won with 4-2.