25th Meijin Title 2000

Title match

	1	2	3	4	T
Yoda Norimoto	1	1	1	1	4
Cho Chikun	0	0	0	0	0

Live coverage on www.asahi.com (hourly updates).

The first game of the title match is played on the 6th and 7th of September in:

Hotel Okura
Amsterdam

the Netherlands

The players:

From left to right:
Cho Chikun, 9 dan, Meijin, title holder
Yoda Norimoto, 9 dan, NHK, challenger

The attending professionals:

From left to right:
Ishida Yoshio, 9 dan, referee
Takemiya Masaki, 9 dan, live commentator
Mizuma Toshifumi, 7 dan, game recorder
Shibusawa Machiko, shodan, game recorder
Kato Masao, 9 dan, NHK commentator
Shirae Haruhiko, 7 dan, NHK commentator

Challenger playoff

Yoda Norimoto and O Meien tied for first place in the Meijin league means a playoff on the 7th of August was necessary.

From left to right:
Yoda Norimoto, 9 dan, NHK
O Meien, 9 dan, Honinbo

This game resulted in a win by Yoda Norimoto as black (2.5 points, 247 moves) so Yoda will be the challenger of title holder Cho Chikun. His comment after the game: "I am very tired"
Yoda has been challenger before of Cho in best-of-seven matches: last years Meijin match of course (4-1 for Cho) and the 22nd Kisei match (4-2 for Cho).

More information can be found on the Asahi site.

League

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	T
1. Yoda Norimoto, 9 dan	X	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	6
2. Kobayashi Koichi, Judan	0	X	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	3
3. Ryu Shikun, 7 dan	0	1	X	0	0	1	1	1	0	4
4. O Rissei, Oza	1	1	1	X	0	1	0	1	0	5
5. Kato Masao, 9 dan	0	0	1	1	X	0	1	1	0	4
6. Takemiya Masaki, 9 dan	0	0	0	0	1	X	0	1	0	2
7. O Meien, 9 dan	1	1	0	1	0	1	X	1	1	6
8. Imamura Yoshiaki, 8 dan	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	X	0	1
9. Hane Naoki, 7 dan	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	X	5

More information can be found on the Asahi site.

League Preliminary Tournament

Mimura Tomoyasu, 8 dan		Awaji Shuzo	Awaji Shuzo	O Meien (B+R)
Awaji Shuzo, 9 dan
Yamada Kimio, 7 dan	Yamada Kimio	Akiyama Jiro (W+R)
Hoshino Masaki, 7 dan
Akiyama Jiro, 6 dan
Kobayashi Izumi, Female Kakusei		Kobayashi Izumi (W+1.5)	O Meien
Goto Shungo, 9 dan
Kataoka Satoshi, 9 dan	O Meien	O Meien
O Meien, 9 dan
Tono Hiroaki, 9 dan

Kobayashi Satoru, 9 dan		Imamura Yoshiaki	Imamura Yoshiaki	Imamura Yoshiaki (W+R)
Imamura Yoshiaki, 8 dan
Ko Mosei, 8 dan	Ko Mosei
Shiraishi Yutaka, 9 dan
Ishida Yoshio, 9 dan
Yuki Satoshi, 9 dan		Ishida Atsushi	Kono Rin
Ishida Atsushi, 8 dan
Yo Kagen, 8 dan	Yo Kagen	Kono Rin
Ishii Mamura, 9 dan
Kono Rin, 5 dan

Sakai Maki, 7 dan		Sakai Maki	Hane Naoki	Hane Naoki (B+3.5)
Sekiyama Toshimichi, 7 dan
Hane Naoki, 7 dan	Hane Naoki	Hane Naoki (B+1.5)
Kudo Norio, 9 dan
Kurahashi Masayuki, 8 dan
Yamashiro Hiroshi, 9 dan		Yamashiro Hiroshi	Sonoda Yuichi
Otake Hideo, 9 dan
Komatsu Fujio, 8 dan	Hikosaka Naoto	Sonoda Yuichi
Hikosaka Naoto, 9 dan
Sonoda Yuichi, 9 dan

Qualification League Preliminary Tournament

Player black	Player white	Date	RE
Rin Kaiho	Kobayashi Izumi	1999	W+7.5

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