26th Honinbo title 1971

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# 26th Honinbo title

## Preliminaries

The finals of the preliminaries were won by Ishida Yoshio, Fujisawa Shuko, Chino Tadahiko, and Hoshino Toshi.

## 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. | Sakata Eio | 4-3 |  | B+R |  | W+R |  |  | W+3.5 |
2. | Kato Masao | 5-2 |  |  |  | B+R |  |  |  |
3. | Kano Yoshinori | 2-5 | W+R |  |  |  | B+5.5 | B+R |  |
4. | Fujisawa Hosai | 5-2 |  |  |  |  |  | W+R |  |
5. | Ishida Yoshio | 6-1 | W+9.5 | B+1.5 |  | W+0.5 |  |  | W+R |
6. | Fujisawa Shuko | 3-4 | B+0.5 | B+R |  |  | B+R |  | W+R |
7. | Hoshino Toshi | 2-5 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
8. | Chino Tadahiko | 1-6 |  |  |  |  | B+R | B+R |  |

## The 26th Honinbo Title

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1971-04-26,27 | Rin Kaiho | Ishida Yoshio | B+R | 163 | sgf
1971-05-06,07 | Ishida Yoshio | Rin Kaiho | B+1.5 | 251 | sgf
1971-05-18,19 | Rin Kaiho | Ishida Yoshio | B+R | 195 | sgf
1971-05-31,06-01 | Ishida Yoshio | Rin Kaiho | B+R | 183 | sgf
1971-06-10,11 | Rin Kaiho | Ishida Yoshio | W+R | 218 | sgf
1971-06-21,22 | Ishida Yoshio | Rin Kaiho | B+0.5 | 241 | sgf

Ishida won with 4-2.

There is a very detailed commentary on this title match, The 1971 Honinbo Tournament, by Kaoro Iwamoto (and James C. Davies), Ishi Press, 1976. It contains an analysis of these six games, the seven preceding League games by Ishida, and his last game in the Preliminaries.