# Preliminary A of the 70th Honinbo tournament

For several big Japanese tournaments, players progress via Preliminary C and Preliminary B and Preliminary A and Last Preliminary to the League that determines the challenger of the title holder. The whole process takes almost two years.

The present page gives the Preliminary A of the 70th Honinbo tournament. In a knock-out system, 113 players compete in 28 groups of 4 (or 5) for a place in the Last preliminary.

Sonoda Yasutaka | Hoshino Masaki | Hoshino Masaki
Hoshino Masaki
Ko Iso | Tsuneishi Takashi (B+5.5)
Tsuneishi Takashi
Matsumoto Takehisa | Matsumoto Takehisa | Matsumoto Takehisa (B+R)
Komatsu Fujio
Rin Kaiho | Shuto Shun (B+R)
Shuto Shun
Inaba Takahiro | Tajiri Yuto | Tajiri Yuto (W+4.5)
Tajiri Yuto
Otake Hideo | Otake Hideo (W+5.5)
Horimoto Mitsunari
Yamada Takuji | Kyo Kagen | Kataoka Satoshi (W+0.5)
Kyo Kagen
Kataoka Satoshi | Kataoka Satoshi (W+1.5)
Ichiriki Ryo
So Yokoku | So Yokoku | So Yokoku
Omori Yasushi
Yoda Norimoto | Rin Kanketsu (W+0.5)
Rin Kanketsu
Kono Takashi | Kono Takashi | Kono Takashi
Uchida Shuhei
Kamimura Haruo | Kato Atsushi
Kato Atsushi
Kobayashi Satoru | Kobayashi Satoru (W+1.5) | Kobayashi Satoru (W+0.5)
Takano Hideki
O Meien | O Meien (W+R)
Mimura Kaori
Anzai Nobuaki | Anzai Nobuaki | Anzai Nobuaki
Mukai Chiaki
Kim Sujun | Kim Sujun
Ito Masashi
Cho Sonjin | Endo Yoshifumi (B+R) | Endo Yoshifumi (W+R)
Endo Yoshifumi
Mizokami Tomochika | Kudo Norio (B+R)
Kudo Norio
Cho Riyu | Kubo Hideo | Obuchi Morito
Kubo Hideo
Rin Shien | Obuchi Morito
Obuchi Morito
Sakai Takeshi | Sakai Takeshi | Ryu Shikun (W+R)
Suzuki Ayumi
Ryu Shikun | Ryu Shikun (B+R)
Kono Mitsuki
Mimura Tomoyasu | Mimura Tomoyasu | Mimura Tomoyasu
Shiraishi Yuichi
Mitani Tetsuya | Mitani Tetsuya
Takemiya Yoko
Ishida Yoshio | Oya Koichi (B+R) | Nakaonoda Tomomi
Oya Koichi
Nakaonoda Tomomi | Nakaonoda Tomomi
Nishimura Keiji
Obuchi Kotaro | Kobayashi Koichi (W+R) | Terayama Rei (B+R)
Kobayashi Koichi
Terayama Rei | Terayama Rei
Okada Shinichiro
Fujisawa Rina | Fujisawa Rina (B+1.5) | Akiyama Jiro
Michael Redmond
Akiyama Jiro | Akiyama Jiro
Kanazawa Hideo
Takanashi Seiken | Aoki Shinichi | Oba Junya
Aoki Shinichi
Oba Junya | Oba Junya
Komatsu Hideki
Nakamura Shinya | Kazama Jun | Tsuruyama Atsushi
Kazama Jun
Tsuruyama Atsushi | Tsuruyama Atsushi
Sugimoto Akira
Mochizuki Kenichi | Mochizuki Kenichi | Mochizuki Kenichi
Suzuki Shinji
Awaji Shuzo | Awaji Shuzo
Yashiro Kumiko
Cho Chikun | Cho Chikun (W+R) | Hirata Tomoya (B+0.5)
Kanazawa Makoto
Takemiya Masaki | Hirata Tomoya (B+6.5)
Hirata Tomoya
Yo Kagen | Yo Kagen | Yo Kagen
Muramatsu Ryuichi
Han Zenki | Han Zenki
Adachi Toshimasa | Adachi Toshimasa (B+R)
Fukui Masaaki
Hane Naoki | Hane Naoki (W+R) | Hane Naoki (B+3.5)
Yanagisawa Satoshi
Goto Shungo | Goto Shungo
Kikuchi Masatoshi
Ohashi Naruya | Ohashi Naruya | Ohashi Naruya
Kitano Ryo
Takei Takashi | Wang Jing Yi
Wang Jing Yi
Shida Tatsuya | Shida Tatsuya | Shida Tatsuya
Matsuoka Hideki
Yamashiro Hiroshi | Yamashiro Hiroshi
Nakao Jungo
Hikosaka Naoto | Hikosaka Naoto (W+R) | Nakano Hironari (W+R)
Komatsu Daiki
Ishii Kunio | Nakano Hironari
Nakano Hironari
Sasaki Tsuyoshi | Nakane Naoyuki | Tanaka Nobuyuki
Nakane Naoyuki
Yamada Kimio | Tanaka Nobuyuki
Tanaka Nobuyuki
Ueki Yoshio | Enda Hideki | Hane Yasumasa
Enda Hideki
Hane Yasumasa | Hane Yasumasa
Tajima Shingo
Ogata Masaki | Ogata Masaki | Ogata Masaki
Yanaka Katsunori
Sakaguchi Ryuzo | Sakaguchi Ryuzo
Iwamaru Taira
Kato Yuki | Ishida Atsushi | Muramatsu Hiroki
Ishida Atsushi
Muramatsu Hiroki | Muramatsu Hiroki
Hiroe Hiroyuki