7th Honinbo title 1952

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# 7th 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
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1. | Kitani Minoru | 4-2 |  | B+2.5 | B+7.5 |  |  | W+3.5 |
2. | Takagawa Kaku | 4-2 |  |  |  | B+R | B+R |  | W+R
3. | Sakata Eio | 4-2 |  | B+R |  |  | B+0.5 |  | W+R
4. | Miyashita Shuyo | 4-2 | B+R |  | B+R |  |  | W+R |
5. | Tainaka Shin | 4-2 | B+R |  |  | B+3.5 |  | W+7.5 |
6. | Hasegawa Akira | 1-5 |  | B+R | B+R |  |  |  | W+5.5
7. | Segawa Yoshio | 0-6 | B+0.5 |  |  | B+R | B+R |  |

## Challenger Playoff

The League ended in an unfortunate result: five players scored four wins. A small knockout tournament decided on the challenger, and two additional games on the demotion.

League Playoff
Tainaka Shin | Takagawa Kaku (W+R) | Takagawa Kaku (B+R)
Takagawa Kaku
Miyashita Shuyo | Sakata Eio (W+R)
Sakata Eio | Sakata Eio (B+5.5)
Kitani Minoru

## Demotion Playoff

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1952-11-19,20 | Miyashita Shuyo | Tainaka Shin | B+2.5 | 234 | sgf
1952-12-03,04 | Tainaka Shin | Kitani Minoru | W+R | 158 | sgf

## 7th Honinbo Title

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1952-06-25,26 | Takagawa Kaku | Hashimoto Utaro | W+R | 208 | sgf
1952-07-09,10 | Hashimoto Utaro | Takagawa Kaku | W+8.5 | 244 | sgf
1952-07-23,24 | Takagawa Kaku | Hashimoto Utaro | B+R | 223 | sgf
1952-08-06,07 | Hashimoto Utaro | Takagawa Kaku | W+3.5 | 235 | sgf
1952-08-20,21 | Takagawa Kaku | Hashimoto Utaro | B+R | 169 | sgf

Takagawa Kaku won with 4-1.

As Honinbo, Takagawa took the name Honinbo Shukaku.