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24th 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	1998-10-29	Mimura Tomoyasu	Yamashita Keigo	B+	sgf
Qualification final	1998-11-05	Kobayashi Satoru	Yamada Kimio	B+2.5	sgf
Qualification final	1998-11-05	Morita Michihiro	Sakai Maki	W+	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.	O Rissei	5-3		B+R		B+1.5		W+0.5		W+R
2.	Kato Masao	4-4			B+R		B+R		B+2.5		W+R
3.	Yoda Norimoto	6-2	W+1.5			B+1.5		B+0.5		W+0.5
4.	Kobayashi Koichi	6-2		W+3.5			B+5.5		W+R		B+4.5
5.	Ryu Shikun	6-2	B+0.5		B+0.5			W+7.5		W+R
6.	Takemiya Masaki	3-5		B+1.5		B+3.5			W+3.5		W+4.5
7.	Kobayashi Satoru	3-5	B+0.5		B+R		B+R			W+2.5
8.	Mimura Tomoyasu	2-6		B+2.5		B+R		W+1.5			W+1.5
9.	Sakai Maki	1-7	B+R		B+R		B+R		B+R

Playoff

Yoda Norimoto and Kobayashi Koichi were the top two players with 6 wins, and played a challenger playoff that was won by Yoda Norimoto.

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
League playoff	1999-08-09	Yoda Norimoto	Kobayashi Koichi	B+0.5	sgf

24th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1999-09-01,02	Yoda Norimoto	Cho Chikun	W+1.5	sgf
2	1999-09-15,16	Cho Chikun	Yoda Norimoto	B+3.5	sgf
3	1999-09-29,30	Yoda Norimoto	Cho Chikun	B+R	sgf
4	1999-10-13,14	Cho Chikun	Yoda Norimoto	B+R	sgf
5	1999-10-20,21	Yoda Norimoto	Cho Chikun	W+1.5	sgf

Cho Chikun won with 4-1.