21st Woman's Meijin title

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# 21st Woman's Meijin title

This year introduced a new format, where the challenger was determined by a 7-player league.

## League

Results (in the first column the white player, on the top row the black player).

# | player | result | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1. | Kato Keiko | 3-3 |  |  | W+R |  | B+R |  | W+R
2. | Kobayashi Izumi | 1-5 | B+R |  |  | B+R |  | B+R |
3. | Umezawa Yukari | 3-3 |  | W+R |  |  | W+R |  | W+4.5
4. | Suzuki Ayumi | 4-2 | W+0.5 |  | W+1.5 |  |  | B+2.5 |
5. | Yoshida Mika | 3-3 |  | B+R |  | W+R |  |  | B+
6. | Chinen Kaori | 4-2 | W+R |  | W+4.5 |  | B+R |  |
7. | Mukai Chiaki | 3-3 |  | W+R |  | B+2.5 |  | W+4.5 |

Kobayashi Izumi, Yoshida Mika and Mukai Chiaki are demoted.

## 21st Woman's Meijin Title

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
2009-03-04 | Chinen Kaori | Xie Yimin | W+R | 230 | sgf
2009-03-17 | Xie Yimin | Chinen Kaori | W+3.5 | 290 | sgf
2009-04-01 | Xie Yimin | Chinen Kaori | B+R | 207 | sgf

Xie Yimin won with 2-1.