20th Kisei Title 1996

Title Match

The 20th Kisei tournament started the 17th of Januari 1996 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (more information on this event is available).

John Schouten was so kind to digitize and submit pictures of the opening ceremony. Please check them out!

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 T Cho Chikun B+R B+R W+R 4 Kobayashi Satoru B+R W+R B+1.5 W+R 3

Challenger final

1 2 T Cho Chikun 2 Kato Masao B+1.5 W+R 0

Challenger knockout

Fukui Susumu, 9p Honda Kunihisa   W+R Cho Chikun   W+R         Honda Kunihisa, 9p         Cho Chikun, 9p, Honinbo Cho Chikun   B+R     Otake Hideo, 9p Otake Hideo   B+R Yuki Satoshi, 8p     So Kofuku, 7p Kobayashi Koichi   W+3.5 Kato Masao   W+0.5     Kobayashi Koichi, 9p, Meijin Kobayashi Koichi   B+R Hashimoto Yujiro, 7p     Ryu Shikun, 7p, Tengen Kato Masao   W+0.5     Takemiya Masaki, 9p Kato Masao   W+5.5 Kato Masao, 9p

Challenger qualification

Dan section finals

Player black Player white Date RE #M Honda Kunihisa Kato Masao 1995-07-27 W+R 180   Umeda Haruhiko Yuki Satoshi 1995-06-15 W+10.5 261   Endo Yoshifumi Hane Naoki 1995-05-17 B+3.5 273   Yamada Kimio Kasai Koji 1995-05-17 B+R 183   So Kofuku Hashimoto Yujiro 1995-05-11 B+R 165   Takahashi Hideo Mizokami Tomochika 1995-03-29 W+4.5 260   Kurotaki Masanori Akiyama Jiro 1995-03-29 B+4.5 217   Suzuki Yoshimichi Chinen Kaori 1995-03-08 B+R 197   Yamashita Keigo Tahara Yasufumi 1995-03-08 B+R 149

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