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32nd Meijin title

Qualification tournament

The lowest three players from the previous year are demoted from the League, and a qualification tournament with three groups determines which three new players are allowed to enter the League.

Mochizuki Kenichi Fujii Shuya Mimura Tomoyasu Mimura Tomoyasu
(W+3.5)
Fujii Shuya
Yamada Takuji Mimura
Tomoyasu		 Mimura Tomoyasu
Mimura Tomoyasu
Ogata Masaki
Rin Shien Rin Shien Rin Shien
Ogaki Yusaku
Yo Kagen Imamura Toshiya
Imamura Toshiya
Yokota Shigeaki Yokota Shigeaki
(W+R)		 Yamada Noriyoshi Hikosaka Naoto
(B+0.5)
O Meien
Kiyonari Tetsuya Kiyonari
Tetsuya
(W+0.5)		 Yamada Noriyoshi
Cho Chikun
Yamada Noriyoshi
Takei Takashi Takei
Takashi
 Takemiya Masaki
(B+R)		 Hikosaka Naoto
(W+8.5)
Goto Shungo
Takemiya Masaki
Hikosaka Naoto Hikosaka Naoto
Han Zenki
O Rissei Tsuruyama Atsushi
(W+R)		 Hane Naoki Ko Iso
(B+R)
Tsuruyama Atsushi
So Yokoku So Yokoku Hane Naoki
Honda Kunihisa
Hane Naoki
Rin Kaiho Rin Kaiho
(B+2.5)		 Kataoka Satoshi
(W+11.5)		 Ko Iso
Chin Kaei
Kataoka Satoshi
Iyama Yuta Ko Iso (B+2.5)
Ko Iso

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. Cho U 7-1 W+0.5 W+0.5 W+5.5 W+R
2. Yamashita Keigo 1-7 B+R B+5.5 B+R W+R
3. Sakai Hideyuki 4-4 W+0.5 B+0.5 B+0.5 B+0.5
4. Kobayashi Satoru 4-4 W+R W+R W+R B+R
5. Yamada Kimio 5-3 B+R W+R W+1.5 W+R
6. Yoda Norimoto 4-4 W+4.5 W+1.5 B+0.5 B+3.5
7. Hikosaka Naoto 3-5 B+1.5 B+8.5 W+R B+1.5
8. Mimura Tomoyasu 4-4 W+0.5 W+R B+R B+R
9. Ko Iso 4-4 B+4.5 B+R B+R W+1.5

Demotion Playoff

Ko Iso and Mimura Tomoyasu both had 4 wins, and played a demotion playoff that was won by Ko Iso.

game date black white result sgf
Demotion playoff 2007-08-16 Ko Iso Mimura Tomoyasu B+R sgf

32nd Meijin Title

1 2007-09-06,07 Takao Shinji Cho U B+4.5 sgf
2 2007-09-19,20 Cho U Takao Shinji B+R sgf
3 2007-09-26,27 Takao Shinji Cho U W+1.5 sgf
4 2007-10-10,11 Cho U Takao Shinji B+R sgf
5 2007-10-17,18 Takao Shinji Cho U B+2.5 sgf
6 2007-11-01,02 Cho U Takao Shinji W+0.5 sgf
7 2007-11-08,09 Cho U Takao Shinji B+2.5 sgf

Cho U won with 4-3.