12th Kisei Title 1988

Title Match

	1	2	3	4	5	T
Kobayashi Koichi				W+8.5		4
Kato Masao	W+R	B+7.5	W+R		W+0.5	1

Challenger final

	1	2	T
Kato Masao			2
Otake Hideo	W+R	B+R	0

Challenger knockout

	Otake Hideo, 9 dan	Otake Hideo B+R	Otake Hideo B+R

Awaji Shuzo, 9 dan	Awaji Shuzo B+R
Hasegawa Sunao, 9 dan
O Meien, 7 dan	O Meien B+1.5	Cho Chikun W+R
O Rissei, 8 dan
	Cho Chikun, 9 dan

	Takemiya Masaki, 9p, Honinbo	Takemiya Masaki B+R	Kato Masao W+6.5

Sakata Eio, 9 dan	Shiraishi Yutaka W+0.5
Shiraishi Yutaka, 9 dan
	Kato Masao, 9p, Meijin	Kato Masao B+2.5

	Yoda Norimoto, 6 dan

Challenger qualification

Okumura Yasushi, 1 dan	Okumura (B+R)	Mimura (B+0.5)	Mimura (B+5.5)	Mimura (W+R)	Komatsu (B+1.5)	Yoda (W+R)	Yoda (B+0.5)
Omori Yasushi, 1 dan
Izumitani Hideo, 2 dan	Mimura (W+4.5)
Mimura Tomoyasu, 2 dan
Nishimura Keiji, 3 dan	(B+0.5) Nishimura
Morita Michihiro, 3 dan
Cho Sonjin, 4 dan	(B+7.5) Cho
Yuki Satoshi, 4 dan
Komatsu Hideki, 5 dan	(B+1.5) Komatsu
Onda Yasuhiko, 5 dan
Yoda Norimoto, 6 dan	(B+R) Yoda
Taniguchi Toshinori, 6 dan
Imamura Toshiya, 7 dan	Imamura
O Meien, 7 dan	(W+0.5) O Meien
O Rissei, 8 dan	(B+R) O Rissei
Hasegawa Sunao, 8 dan	Hasegawa
Sakata Eio, 9 dan	(W+0.5) Cho
Cho Chikun, 9 dan	Sakata

Explanation:
The players weaker than 8 dan play a knockout tournament for one place in the challenger tournament, the stronger the player the later s/he joins the knockout. For example, Yoda Norimoto joins the knockout tournament in the 5th round. The 7 dan players are an exception to the rules just outlined: the winner goes through to the challenger tournament (O Meien in this edition) while the looser joins the knockout tournament (6th and last round). Strictly speaken, the 8 and 9 dan preliminary finals are not of any influence to the proceeding of the tournament. They merely play for the prize money of the 8- and 9-dan tournament.

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