6th Honinbo Title 1951

Title match

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	T
Hashimoto Utaro	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	4
Sakata Eio	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	3

League winner playoff

After the league, there was a three-way tie for first, which was resolved by a round robin won by Sakata.

	1	2	3	T	P
1. Kitani Minoru, 8 dan	X	1	0	1	2
2. Hasegawa Akira, 7 dan	0	X	0	0	3
3. Sakata Eio, 7 dan	1	1	X	2	1

League demotion playoff

There was a single elimination playoff for fourth place (to retain a place in the league). Fujisawa received a first round by, and won his game (against Takagawa). Nevertheless, he did not participate in the 7th title. On the other hand, Takagawa came back through the preliminary round to regain his place in the league, which he won and went on to defeat Hashimoto Utaro in the title match to begin his remarkable run of nine straight Honinbo titles (only recently surpassed by Cho Chikun).

Player black	Player white	Date	RE
Takagawa Kaku	Iwamoto Kaoru	1950-12-06	B+006.50
Fujisawa Kuranosuke	Takagawa Kaku	1951-03-05	B+R

League

	1	2	3	4	5	6	T
1. Kitani Minoru, 8 dan	X	1	0	1	0	1	3
2. Hasegawa Akira, 7 dan	0	X	1	0	1	1	3
3. Sakata Eio, 7 dan	1	0	X	1	0	1	3
4. Fujisawa Kuranosuke, 9 dan	0	1	0	X	1	0	2
5. Iwamoto Kaoru, 8 dan	1	0	1	0	X	0	2
6. Takagawa Kaku, 7 dan	0	0	0	1	1	X	2

League preliminary

In the first stage, 32 unseeded 5, 6 and 7 dans were sorted into five knockout groups.

Player black	Player white	Date	RE
Sakai Michiharu	Maeda Nobuaki	1950-07-19	W+R
Fujisawa Hideyuki	Miyashita Shuyo	1950-07-19	W+R
Magari Reiki	Miwa Yoshiro	1950-07-19	B+004.50

The winners of these groups (Sakata Eio 7 dan, Mitsuhara Itaro 7 dan, Miyashita Shuyo 7 dan, Shinohara Masami 6 dan and Magari Reiki 5 dan) advanced to the second stage along with the five players who had 3-3 scores in the 5th Honinbo league (Fujisawa Kuranosuke 9 dan, Hasegawa Akira 7 dan, Hayashi Yutaro 7 dan, Kitani Minoru 7 dan, Takagawa Kaku 7 dan).

In the second stage, players were eliminated after two losses.

First round (1950-08-10,11)

Black	White	Result
Fujisawa Kuranosuke	Miyashita Shuyo	B+5.5
Takagawa Kaku	Kitani Minoru	W+R
Mitsuhara Itaro	Hasegawa Akira	B+2.5
Sakata Eio	Hayashi Yutaro	B+R
Magari Reiki	Shinohara Masami	B+R

Second round (1950-08-16,17)

Black	White	Result
Takagawa Kaku	Fujisawa Kuranosuke	B+R
Mitsuhara Itaro	Kitani Minoru	W+2.5
Miyashita Shuyo	Hayashi Yutaro	B+8.5
Shinohara Masami	Hasegawa Akira	W+5.5
Magari Reiki	Sakata Eio	W+R

Third round (1950-08-23,24)

Black	White	Result
Fujisawa Kuranosuke	Mitsuhara Itaro	B+R
Takagawa Kaku	Miyashita Shuyo	B+R
Hasegawa Akira	Magari Reiki	B+R

The five survisors of this stage advanced into the league along with Iwamoto Kaoru 8 dan, who was defeated in the previous Honinbo title match.

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