32nd Honinbo title 1977

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# 32nd Honinbo title

## Preliminaries

In the preliminaries, Otake Hideo, Kubouchi Shuchi, Magari Reiki and Takagi Shoichi qualified for the League.

## 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 |  |  | W+1.5 |  | B+R |  | W+R |
2. | Magari Reiki | 3-4 | B+R |  |  | B+5.5 |  | W+R |  | W+5.5
3. | Kato Masao | 6-1 |  | W+R |  |  | W+3.5 |  | W+R |
4. | Otake Hideo | 6-1 | W+R |  | B+1.5 |  |  | W+7.5 |  | W+R
5. | Sakata Eio | 3-4 |  | B+0.5 |  | B+3.5 |  |  | B+R |
6. | Takagi Shoichi | 0-7 | B+R |  | B+R |  | B+R |  |  | B+R
7. | Rin Kaiho | 4-3 |  | W+R |  | B+13.5 |  | W+R |  |
8. | Kubouchi Shuchi | 1-6 | B+R |  | B+R |  | B+R |  | B+6.5 |

Takagi Shoichi, Kubouchi Shuchi, Sakata Eio and Magari Reiki are demoted.

## Challenger Playoff

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1977-04-28 | Kato Masao | Otake Hideo | B+R | 249 | sgf

## 32nd Honinbo Title

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1977-05-09,10 | Kato Masao | Takemiya Masaki | B+R | 165 | sgf
1977-05-23,24 | Takemiya Masaki | Kato Masao | B+R | 199 | sgf
1977-06-08,09 | Kato Masao | Takemiya Masaki | B+7.5 | 239 | sgf
1977-06-15,16 | Takemiya Masaki | Kato Masao | W+R | 190 | sgf
1977-06-29,30 | Kato Masao | Takemiya Masaki | B+R | 209 | sgf

Kato Masao won with 4-1.

As Honinbo, Kato took the name Kato Kensei.