I was fortunate to be able to attend the first game in Paris and after returning home tried to write down the marvelous analysis of Kataoka Satoshi, 9 dan, Takemiya Masaki, 9 dan, Kawamura Masamichi, 7 dan and Hotta Yozo, 9 dan. Please see the game record or download the gzipped PostScript file (16 pages).

Cho Chikun Born 1956-06-20 Rank 9p Stored games 3222 Using this name 3118  biography...  title matches...  game collection...

Kobayashi Koichi Born 1952-09-10 Rank 9p Stored games 2368 Using this name 2367  biography...  title matches...  game collection...

event	round	black	rank	cb	white	rank	cw	ha	km	date	place	result	size	#mn	game
Kisei tournament	6	Kobayashi Koichi	9 dan	9	Cho Chikun	9 dan	7		5.5	1999-03-10,11	JP	5.5	19	272
Kisei tournament	5	Cho Chikun	9 dan	0	Kobayashi Koichi	9 dan	2		5.5	1999-02-24,25	JP	R	19	102
Kisei tournament	4	Kobayashi Koichi	9 dan	8	Cho Chikun	9 dan	12		5.5	1999-02-17,18	JP	1.5	19	287
Kisei tournament	3	Cho Chikun	9 dan	2	Kobayashi Koichi	9 dan	4		5.5	1999-02-03,04	JP	R	19	186
Kisei tournament	2	Kobayashi Koichi	9 dan	5	Cho Chikun	9 dan	5		5.5	1999-01-27,28	JP	R	19	208
Kisei tournament	1	Cho Chikun	9 dan	5	Kobayashi Koichi	9 dan	6		5.5	1999-01-13,14	FR	R	19	203

 their earlier games...   all their games...

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The challenger final (best of three) was played between Kobayashi Koichi and Yoda Norimoto.

The knockout below will determine the challenger of the current Kisei title holder Cho Chikun.