61st Honinbo title 2006

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# 61st Honinbo title

## Preliminary finals

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
2005-08-04 | Hane Naoki | Ishida Atsushi | B+2.5 | 280 | sgf
2005-08-11 | Ryu Shikun | O Rissei | W+3.5 | 271 | sgf
2005-08-18 | So Yokoku | Honda Kunihisa | B+R | 149 | sgf
2005-09-12 | Kobayashi Satoru | Yamada Kimio | W+5.5 | 281 | sgf

## League

In the first column the white player, on the top row the black player.

# | player | result | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1. | Cho U | 4-3 |  |  | B+3.5 |  | W+R |  | B+R |
2. | Cho Sonjin | 3-4 | B+1.5 |  |  | W+8.5 |  | W+R |  | B+0.5
3. | Yoda Norimoto | 5-2 |  | W+6.5 |  |  | B+0.5 |  | W+1.5 |
4. | O Meien | 0-7 | B+R |  | B+R |  |  | B+3.5 |  | B+R
5. | Hane Naoki | 5-2 |  | W+R |  | W+R |  |  | B+0.5 |
6. | O Rissei | 2-5 | B+R |  | B+R |  | B+1.5 |  |  | W+R
7. | Yamada Kimio | 5-2 |  | B+2.5 |  | W+5.5 |  | W+R |  |
8. | So Yokoku | 4-3 | W+R |  | W+R |  | B+R |  | B+R |

O Meien, O Rissei, Cho Sonjin and So Yokoku are demoted.

## Challenger Playoff

Three players ended with a 5-2 score: Yoda Norimoto, Hane Naoki and Yamada Kimio. Hane and Yamada had the lowest rank and played a playoff won by Yamada. He also won the second playoff against Yoda.

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
2006-04-03 | Yamada Kimio | Hane Naoki | B+R | 125 | sgf
2006-04-13 | Yamada Kimio | Yoda Norimoto | B+0.5 | 245 | sgf

## 61st Honinbo Title

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
2006-05-08,09 | Yamada Kimio | Takao Shinji | W+R | 158 | sgf
2006-05-29,30 | Takao Shinji | Yamada Kimio | W+R | 206 | sgf
2006-06-07,08 | Yamada Kimio | Takao Shinji | W+R | 166 | sgf
2006-06-12,13 | Takao Shinji | Yamada Kimio | B+R | 201 | sgf
2006-06-26,27 | Yamada Kimio | Takao Shinji | B+R | 237 | sgf
2006-07-11,12 | Takao Shinji | Yamada Kimio | B+R | 179 | sgf

Takao Shinji won with 4-2.