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2nd Meijin title

Newcomers

The lowest three players from the previous year are demoted, and entrance matches determine which three new players are allowed to enter the League.

game	date	black	white	result	#moves	sgf
Qualification final	1976-10-28	Honda Kunihisa	Shiraishi Yutaka	W+2.5	268	sgf
Qualification final	1976-11-10	Cho Chikun	Ishida Akira	B+R	171	sgf
Qualification final	1976-11-11	Kato Masao	Yamabe Toshiro	B+R	129	sgf

League

Results (in the first column the white player, on the top row the black player). The ordering of the first six players is according to their results in the previous year. The last three are the winners of the entrance matches (in some order).

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Ishida Yoshio	6-2		B+4.5	W+R			W+3.5	B+R
2.	Rin Kaiho	7-1			B+1.5		W+R	W+R	W+6.5
3.	Sakata Eio	5-3					B+R		B+1.5	W+R	W+R
4.	Hashimoto Utaro	4-4	B+R	B+7.5	B+R			W+R
5.	Kubouchi Shuchi	2-6	B+R			B+R				B+R	B+R
6.	Kajiwara Takeo	3-5			B+R		W+T		B+6.5		W+R
7.	Kato Masao	5-3				B+R	B+R			W+R	W+R
8.	Shiraishi Yutaka	1-7	B+3.5	B+R		B+R		B+R
9.	Cho Chikun	3-5	B+6.5	B+R		W+10.5				W+R

In later years, the tournament table is derived from the player order. This year however, the tournament table corresponds to some different order, e.g.:

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Ishida Yoshio	6-2			B+4.5		W+3.5		W+R		B+R
2.	Kubouchi Shuchi	2-6	B+R			B+R		B+R		B+R
3.	Rin Kaiho	7-1		W+R			W+R		B+1.5		W+6.5
4.	Cho Chikun	3-5	B+6.5		B+R			W+R		W+10.5
5.	Kajiwara Takeo	3-5		W+T		W+R			B+R		B+6.5
6.	Shiraishi Yutaka	1-7	B+3.5		B+R		B+R			B+R
7.	Sakata Eio	5-3		B+R		W+R		W+R			B+1.5
8.	Hashimoto Utaro	4-4	B+R		B+7.5		W+R		B+R
9.	Kato Masao	5-3		B+R		W+R		W+R		B+R

2nd Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1977-09-08,09	Otake Hideo	Rin Kaiho	W+0.5	sgf
2	1977-09-19	Rin Kaiho	Otake Hideo	B+R	sgf
3	1977-09-28	Otake Hideo	Rin Kaiho	W+R	sgf
4	1977-10-12	Rin Kaiho	Otake Hideo	B+R	sgf

Rin Kaiho won with 4-0.