34th Honinbo title 1979

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# 34th Honinbo title

## 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. | Ishida Yoshio | 5-2 |  | B+R |  | W+R |  |  | W+R |
2. | Takemiya Masaki | 4-3 |  |  |  |  | B+R | B+R |  | W+R
3. | Rin Kaiho | 5-2 | W+R | W+R |  |  |  | W+8.5 |  | W+R
4. | Kobayashi Koichi | 3-4 |  | B+0.5 | W+R |  |  |  | B+R |
5. | Kudo Norio | 4-3 | B+3.5 |  | W+5.5 | B+R |  |  | B+1.5 |
6. | Sakata Eio | 4-3 | B+9.5 |  |  | W+R | B+2.5 |  |  | W+R
7. | Takagi Shoichi | 3-4 |  | B+R | B+R |  |  | B+R |  | W+R
8. | Sakai Takeshi | 0-7 | B+R |  |  | B+R | B+R |  |  |

## Demotion Play-off

The bottom four players are demoted from the League. Each of Takemiya, Sakata and Kudo ended with 4-3, and the latter two played a demotion playoff.

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1979-06-14 | Kudo Norio | Sakata Eio | W+R | 150 | sgf

## Challenger Playoff

Rin and Ishida both ended with 5-2, and played a challenger playoff.

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1979-05-17 | Rin Kaiho | Ishida Yoshio | B+1.5 | 288 | sgf

## 34th Honinbo Title

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1979-05-23,24 | Kato Masao | Rin Kaiho | B+R | 147 | sgf
1979-06-05 | Rin Kaiho | Kato Masao | B+R | 89 | sgf
1979-06-13,14 | Kato Masao | Rin Kaiho | B+R | 241 | sgf
1979-06-28,29 | Rin Kaiho | Kato Masao | W+0.5 | 274 | sgf
1979-07-09,10 | Kato Masao | Rin Kaiho | B+R | 201 | sgf

Kato Masao won with 4-1.