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64th Honinbo title

Preliminary finals

date black white result #mv sgf
2008-07-10 Hikosaka Naoto Nakaonoda Tomomi W+R 186 sgf
2008-07-17 Ogata Masaki So Yokoku W+R 138 sgf
2008-07-21 Cho U Kono Rin B+0.5 301 sgf
2008-07-31 Kataoka Satoshi Kobayashi Satoru B+0.5 290 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. Takao Shinji 6-1 B+R W+R W+R W+R
2. Yamada Kimio 5-2 B+R W+R W+R
3. Yamashita Keigo 4-3 B+10.5 B+R W+R B+8.5
4. Yoda Norimoto 2-5 W+R B+R B+2.5
5. Cho U 4-3 B+R B+R W+1.5 W+R
6. Kataoka Satoshi 2-5 B+R W+R W+0.5
7. Nakaonoda Tomomi 1-6 B+R B+R B+8.5 B+R
8. So Yokoku 4-3 B+R W+1.5 W+R

Demotion Playoff

The bottom four players are demoted: Nakaonoda Tomomi, Yoda Norimoto, Kataoka Satoshi and one more. Cho U and So Yokoku played a demotion playoff, lost by So Yokoku.

date black white result #mv sgf
2009-04-30 So Yokoku Cho U W+R 224 sgf

64th Honinbo Title

date black white result #mv sgf
2009-05-13,14 Takao Shinji Hane Naoki W+2.5 262 sgf
2009-05-27,28 Hane Naoki Takao Shinji W+R 212 sgf
2009-06-10,11 Takao Shinji Hane Naoki W+R 182 sgf
2009-06-18,19 Hane Naoki Takao Shinji B+6.5 274 sgf
2009-06-29,30 Takao Shinji Hane Naoki B+R 167 sgf
2009-07-15,16 Hane Naoki Takao Shinji B+5.5 276 sgf

Hane Naoki won with 4-2.