The final of the 1995 Kisei challenger tournament featured the two top Kobayashi's: Kobayashi Koichi and Kobayashi Satoru.

Kobayashi Koichi has been very succesful over the recent years dominating the Meijin title (8 times in a row) and taking all big (best of 7) titles except the Honinbo title, which has been well defended by Cho Chikun so far.

Kobayashi Satoru is less famous than his contemporary members of the Kitani school. This might partly be due to the fact that he couldn't manage to grasp any of the big titles yet. Anyway, he made a great leap forward in his career this year by winning the final of the 1995 Kisei challenger tournament.

Below you will find the games of the final (best of three). You can request the game record by selecting the result.

event	round	black	rank	cb	white	rank	cw	ha	km	date	place	result	size	#mn	game
Kisei tournament	3, Challenger final	Kobayashi Koichi	9p, Meijin	0	Kobayashi Satoru	9 dan	5		5.5	1994-12-01	JP	R	19	168
Kisei tournament	2, Challenger final	Kobayashi Satoru	9 dan	14	Kobayashi Koichi	9p, Meijin	13		5.5	1994-11-17	JP	7.5	19	291
Kisei tournament	1, Challenger final	Kobayashi Koichi	9 dan, Meijin	6	Kobayashi Satoru	9 dan	7		5.5	1994-11-10	JP	0.5	19	263

There are various ways a player can qualify for the final stages of the Challenger Tournament:

By the way, Kobayashi Satoru won the final of the 9 dan section (although that doesn't give any advantages over the 2nd place for the final of the challenger tournament). The seeding in the knockout schedule is determined by chance (drawing).

event	round	black	rank	cb	white	rank	cw	ha	km	date	place	result	size	#mn	game
Kisei tournament	3, Challenger knockout	Kato Masao	9 dan	13	Kobayashi Satoru	9 dan	20		5.5	1994-10-06	JP	1.5	19	293
Kisei tournament	3, Challenger knockout	Kobayashi Koichi	9 dan	7	Rin Kaiho	9 dan	9		5.5	1994-09-29	JP	5.5	19	274
Kisei tournament	2, Challenger knockout	Kobayashi Satoru	9 dan	1	Kudo Norio	9 dan	1		5.5	1994-09-29	JP	R	19	143
Kisei tournament	2, Challenger knockout	Hane Yasumasa	9 dan	1	Kato Masao	9 dan	3		5.5	1994-09-15	JP	R	19	164
Kisei tournament	2, Challenger knockout	Kobayashi Koichi	9 dan	7	Hikosaka Naoto	9 dan	5		5.5	1994-09-01	JP	4.5	19	253
Kisei tournament	1, Challenger knockout	Morita Michihiro	7 dan	4	Kobayashi Satoru	9 dan	7		5.5	1994-09-01	JP	R	19	212
Kisei tournament	2, Challenger knockout	Rin Kaiho	9 dan	11	Imamura Yoshiaki	7 dan	8		5.5	1994-08-25	JP	4.5	19	250
Kisei tournament	1, Challenger knockout	Otake Hideo	9 dan	7	Kato Masao	9 dan	1		5.5	1994-08-25	JP	1.5	19	221
Kisei tournament	1, Challenger knockout	Imamura Yoshiaki	7 dan	7	Yuki Satoshi	8 dan	9		5.5	1994-08	JP	7.5	19	244

The winners of the dan sections 1 through 6 qualify for the final knockout tournament with one place in the Kisei challenger final at stake. These players are joined by the loosers of the 7 and 8 dan finals (Imamura Yoshiaki and Goto Shungo below). The winners of these sections (Morita Michihiro and Yuki Satoshi) qualify immediately for the final stages of the challenger final.

(-) Looser
(+) Winner
(*) Immediate qualification for the challenger league