16th Meijin title

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# 16th Meijin title

## Newcomers

The lowest three players from the previous year are demoted, and entrance matches determine which three new players are allowed to enter the League.

game | date | black | white | result | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Qualification final | 1990-10-04 | Kato Masao | Ishii Kunio | W+2.5 | sgf
Qualification final | 1990-10-04 | Mimura Tomoyasu | Ota Seido | B+3.5 | sgf
Qualification final | 1990-10-25 | Fujisawa Shuko | Ohira Shuzo | B+R | sgf

## 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. | Otake Hideo | 3-5 |  | B+5.5 |  | B+R |  | W+R |  | W+R |
2. | Takemiya Masaki | 6-2 |  |  | W+R |  | B+2.5 |  | B+0.5 |  | W+R
3. | Cho Chikun | 4-4 | W+R |  |  | B+R |  | B+0.5 |  | W+R |
4. | Awaji Shuzo | 3-5 |  | B+R |  |  | B+R |  | B+R |  | W+R
5. | Rin Kaiho | 8-0 | W+R |  | W+0.5 |  |  | W+R |  | W+1.5 |
6. | Yoda Norimoto | 4-4 |  | B+0.5 |  | W+3.5 |  |  | W+R |  | B+2.5
7. | Fujisawa Shuko | 4-4 | W+R |  | B+R |  | B+2.5 |  |  | B+R |
8. | Ishii Kunio | 2-6 |  | B+4.5 |  | W+3.5 |  | B+R |  |  | B+1.5
9. | Mimura Tomoyasu | 2-6 | B+R |  | B+R |  | B+3.5 |  | B+2.5 |  |

## 16th Meijin Title

game | date | black | white | result | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | 1991-09-11,12 | Rin Kaiho | Kobayashi Koichi | W+2.5 | sgf
2 | 1991-09-25,26 | Kobayashi Koichi | Rin Kaiho | W+2.5 | sgf
3 | 1991-10-02,03 | Rin Kaiho | Kobayashi Koichi | W+3.5 | sgf
4 | 1991-10-16,17 | Kobayashi Koichi | Rin Kaiho | B+5.5 | sgf
5 | 1991-10-23,24 | Rin Kaiho | Kobayashi Koichi | W+3.5 | sgf

Kobayashi Koichi won with 4-1.