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14th Old Meijin title

The first 14 years (1962-1975) the Meijin Title was sponsored by the Yomiuri newspaper. This period is known as "Old Meijin" or "Meijin (Yomiuri)". In 1976 the Asahi newspaper took over, and a new numbering started from 1.

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. Rin Kaiho 4-4 B+7 W+2 B+13 W+16
2. Otake Hideo 6-2 W+R W+5 B+R W+R
3. Yamabe Toshiro 4-4 W+R B+R B+R B+R
4. Fujisawa Hosai 3-5 B+5 B+4 B+1 B+R
5. Hashimoto Utaro 4-4 B+3 W+R B+R W+R
6. Fujisawa Shuko 5-3 B+R B+R B+2 W+4
7. Sakata Eio 5-3 B+R B+3 W+R W+R
8. Takagawa Shukaku 3-5 B+ B+R W+0 W+3
9. Kada Katsuji 2-6 W+R W+1 B+R B+R

14th Old Meijin Title

game date black white result sgf
1 1975-09-10,11 Otake Hideo Ishida Yoshio B+8 sgf
2 1975-09-25,26 Ishida Yoshio Otake Hideo B+R sgf
3 1975-10-01,02 Otake Hideo Ishida Yoshio W+R sgf
4 1975-10-15,16 Ishida Yoshio Otake Hideo W+R sgf
5 1975-10-22,23 Otake Hideo Ishida Yoshio W+R sgf
6 1975-10-29,30 Ishida Yoshio Otake Hideo W+R sgf
7 1975-11-12,13 Otake Hideo Ishida Yoshio B+4 sgf

Otake Hideo won with 4-3.