24th Meijin Title 1999

Title match

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	T
Cho Chikun	1	1	0	1	1	-	-	4
Yoda Norimoto	0	0	1	0	0	-	-	1

The professionals usually have to give speeches during the reception on the evening before each title match game. During the speech before the 4th game Cho said something funny:

Yoda said that he knew he was up against an opponent that was maybe too tough for him, but he was determined to win the Meijin at least once in his life. Cho replied that as he hoped to win the Meijin at least 10 times on the trot to match his record in the Honinbo, he wished Yoda a long life.

League play-off

In the league play-off (to decide the challenger of the titleholder Cho Chikun) Yoda Norimoto (playing black) beat Kobayashi Koichi by the smallest margin (0.5 point). The game was played on August 9 in the Nihon Ki-in in Tokyo and took 300 moves.

Event	Player black	Player white	Date	PC	RE
Meijin	Yoda Norimoto	Kobayashi Koichi	1999-08-09	JP	B+000.50

League

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	T
1. O Rissei, 9 dan	X	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	5
2. Kato Masao, 9 dan	1	X	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	4
3. Yoda Norimoto, 9 dan	1	1	X	0	1	0	1	1	1	6
4. Kobayashi Koichi, 9 dan	1	1	1	X	0	1	1	1	0	6
5. Ryu Shikun, 7 dan	0	1	0	1	X	1	1	1	1	6
6. Takemiya Masaki, 9 dan	0	0	1	0	0	X	1	0	1	3
7. Kobayashi Satoru, 9 dan	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	1	1	3
8. Mimura Tomoyasu, 8 dan	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	1	2
9. Sakai Maki, 6 dan	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	1

League Qualification

Event	Player black	Player white	Date	PC	RE
Meijin tournament	Morita Michihiro	Sakai Maki	1998-11-05	JP	W+R
Meijin tournament	Kobayashi Satoru	Yamada Kimio	1998-11-05	JP	B+002.50
Meijin tournament	Mimura Tomoyasu	Yamashita Keigo	1998-10-29	JP	B+R

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