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20th 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	sgf
Qualification final	1994-10-13	O Meien	Kurahashi Masayuki	B+9.5	sgf
Qualification final	1994-10-20	Imamura Yoshiaki	Yuki Satoshi	W+R	sgf
Qualification final	1994-11-10	O Rissei	Hoshino Masaki	B+2.5	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.

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Rin Kaiho	3-5			B+R		B+4.5		B+R		B+R
2.	Cho Chikun	5-3	W+0.5			W+R		B+R		W+R
3.	Kato Masao	5-3		B+5.5			B+1.5		B+4.5		W+R
4.	Kataoka Satoshi	4-4	B+R		B+R			W+6.5		W+R
5.	Takemiya Masaki	7-1		W+R		W+0.5			B+7.5		W+0.5
6.	Awaji Shuzo	3-5	B+2.5		B+R		B+R			W+R
7.	O Rissei	6-2		W+R		B+8.5		B+R			W+4.5
8.	O Meien	0-8	B+R		B+4.5		B+R		B+4.5
9.	Yuki Satoshi	3-5		B+R		B+2.5		W+6.5		W+R

20th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1995-09-06,07	Takemiya Masaki	Kobayashi Koichi	B+0.5	sgf
2	1995-09-20,21	Kobayashi Koichi	Takemiya Masaki	W+0.5	sgf
3	1995-10-06	Takemiya Masaki	Kobayashi Koichi	B+R	sgf
4	1995-10-12	Kobayashi Koichi	Takemiya Masaki	B+2.5	sgf
5	1995-10-27 or 25,26	Takemiya Masaki	Kobayashi Koichi	B+R	sgf

Takemiya Masaki won with 4-1.