Kansai Ki-in 1st Place title games

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# Kansai Ki-in Senshuken

From 1955 to 1974 a Kansai Ki-in Championship (関西棋院選手権戦) was held, sponsored by Kobe Shinbun. (This is not the same as the Kansai Ki-in 1st Place Tournament described below.) Komi was 0, later 4.5. There was an intermission in 1962-1965, when this championship was part of the Kansai Ki-in Red-White Win & Continue Tournament.

In 1975 this championship was merged with the Nihon Ki-In Championship to form the Tengen.

# | Year | Winner | Opponent | Score | SGF
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | 1955 | Tainaka Shin
2 | 1956 | Handa Dogen
3 | 1957 | Hashimoto Shoji
4 | 1958 | Suzuki Etsuo |  |  | *
5 | 1959 | Tono Hiroaki
6 | 1960 | Hashimoto Shoji, Handa Dogen
7 | 1961 | Kubouchi Shuchi |  |  | *
8 | 1966 | Kubouchi Shuchi, Handa Dogen
9 | 1967 | Miyamoto Naoki, Tono Hiroaki |  |  | *
10 | 1968 |  |  |  | *
11 | 1969
12 | 1970 | Ishii Shinzo
13 | 1971 | Hashimoto Utaro | Tono Hiroaki | 2-0 | 2
14 | 1972 | Hashimoto Utaro | Tono Hiroaki | 2-0
15 | 1973 | Hashimoto Utaro | Fujiki Hitomi | 2-1
16 | 1974 | Hashimoto Utaro | Kubouchi Shuchi | 2-1 | 1 2 3

Hashimoto Shoji won the Kansas Ki-in Championship 3 times.

# Kansai Ki-in 1st Place title games

This page gives the title games (in SGF format) for the Kansai Ki-in 1st Place (関西棋院第一位決定戦) title. For results of the tournament, see the subpages linked to in the first column.

The tournament is sponsored by Sanyo Shimbun, and this newspaper also sponsored some special games.

Up to 1964 the final was a single game. In 1965-2006 the first place was determined by a best-of-three match between the last two players left. After 2006, the knockout tournament produces a challenger, and the title match (again a best-of-three) is between the title holder from last year and the challenger.

# | Year | Winner | Opponent | Score | SGF
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | 1957 | Sato Sunao | Handa Dogen | 1-0
2 | 1958 | Handa Dogen | Hashimoto Shoji | 1-0
3 | 1959 | Miyamoto Naoki | Fujiki Hitomi | 1-0
4 | 1960 | Handa Dogen | Tainaka Shin | 1-0
5 | 1961 | Handa Dogen | Sato Sunao | 1-0
6 | 1962 | Koyama Yasuo | Miyamoto Naoki | 1-0
7 | 1963 | Kubouchi Shuchi | Akagi Kazuo | 1-0
8 | 1964 | Sato Sunao | Kubouchi Shuchi | 1-0
9 | 1965 | Hashimoto Shoji | Shiraishi Yutaka | 2-0
10 | 1966 | Hashimoto Shoji | Kubouchi Shuchi | 2-0
11 | 1967 | Hashimoto Shoji | Sekiyama Toshio | 2-1
12 | 1968 | Hashimoto Utaro | Tainaka Shin | 2-0
13 | 1969 | Hashimoto Utaro | Handa Dogen | 2-0
14 | 1970 | Hashimoto Shoji | Sato Sunao | 2-0
15 | 1971 | Hashimoto Shoji | Miyamoto Naoki | 2-0
16 | 1972 | Hashimoto Shoji | Tono Hiroaki | 2-0
17 | 1973 | Hashimoto Shoji | Miyamoto Yoshihisa | 2-0
18 | 1974 | Hashimoto Shoji | Tono Hiroaki | 2-0
19 | 1975 | Honda Kunihisa | Oyama Kunio | 2-1 | 3
20 | 1976 | Honda Kunihisa | Hashimoto Shoji | 2-1
21 | 1977 | Sekiyama Toshio | Ishii Shinzo | 2-0
22 | 1978 | Hashimoto Shoji | Ota Seido | 2-0
23 | 1979 | Hashimoto Shoji | Hashimoto Utaro | 2-0
24 | 1980 | Hashimoto Utaro | Ishii Shinzo | 2-1 | 1 2 3
25 | 1981 | Sato Sunao | Sekiyama Toshio | 2-1 | 1 2 3
26 | 1982 | Oyama Kunio | Ushinohama Satsuo | 2-1 | 1 2 3
27 | 1983 | Sonoda Yuichi | Shiraishi Yutaka | 2-0 | 1 2
28 | 1984 | Sonoda Yuichi | Ushinohama Satsuo | 2-0 | 1 2
29 | 1985 | Ushinohama Satsuo | Sonoda Yuichi | 2-0 | 1 2
30 | 1986 | Miyamoto Yoshihisa | Ushinohama Satsuo | 2-0 | 1 2
31 | 1987 | Tono Hiroaki | Shiraishi Yutaka | 2-0 | 1 2
32 | 1988 | Hashimoto Shoji | Sonoda Yuichi | 2-1 | 1 2 3
33 | 1989 | Tono Hiroaki | Imamura Toshiya | 2-1 | 1 2 3
34 | 1990 | Hashimoto Shoji | Miyamoto Yoshihisa | 2-1 | 1 2 3
35 | 1991 | Sekiyama Toshio | Koyama Yasuo | 2-0 | 1 2
36 | 1992 | Kiyonari Tetsuya | Kurahashi Masayuki | 2-1 | 1 2 3
37 | 1993 | Shiraishi Yutaka | Kubo Katsuaki | 2-1 | 1 2 3
38 | 1994 | Imamura Toshiya | Sonoda Yuichi | 2-1 | 1 2 3
39 | 1995 | Sonoda Yuichi | Miyamoto Naoki | 2-0 | 1 2
40 | 1996 | Yuki Satoshi | Honda Kunihisa | 2-1 | 3
41 | 1997 | Honda Kunihisa | Sonoda Yuichi | 2-0 | 2
42 | 1998 | Imamura Toshiya | Hashimoto Shoji | 2-1 | 3
43 | 1999 | Moriyama Naoki | Hasegawa Sunao | 2-1 | 1 2 3
44 | 2000 | Imamura Toshiya | Hasegawa Sunao | 2-1 | 1 2 3
45 | 2001 | Honda Kunihisa | Kubo Katsuaki | 2-0 | 1 2
46 | 2002 | Imamura Toshiya | Kurahashi Masayuki | 2-1 | 1 2 3
47 | 2003 | Sakai Hideyuki | Yukawa Mitsuhisa | 2-1 | 1 2 3
48 | 2004 | Kiyonari Tetsuya | Sakai Hideyuki | 2-1 | 1 2 3
49 | 2005 | Yokota Shigeaki | Nakano Yasuhiro | 2-0 | 1 2
50 | 2006 | Yuki Satoshi | Yata Naoki | 2-0 | 1 2
51 | 2007 | Yuki Satoshi | Sakai Hideyuki | 2-1 | 1 2 3
52 | 2008 | Yuki Satoshi | Kiyonari Tetsuya | 2-1 | 1 2 3
53 | 2009 | Yuki Satoshi | Imamura Toshiya | 2-1 | 1 2 3
54 | 2010 | Murakawa Daisuke | Yuki Satoshi | 2-0 | 1 2
55 | 2011 | Sakai Hideyuki | Murakawa Daisuke | 2-0 | 1 2
56 | 2012 | Sakai Hideyuki | Murakawa Daisuke | 2-0 | 1 2
57 | 2013 | Sakai Hideyuki | Furuya Yutaka | 2-0 | 1 2
58 | 2014 | Yuki Satoshi | Sakai Hideyuki | 2-1 | 1 2 3
59 | 2015 | Yuki Satoshi | Nakano Yasuhiro | 2-0 | 1 2

## Honorary Kansai Ki-in 1st

Hashimoto Shoji won the "Kansas Ki-in 1st" title 12 times, and got the "honorary Kansas Ki-in 1st" title.