The final of the 1995 Kisei challenger tournament featured the two top Kobayashi's: Kobayashi Koichi and Kobayashi Satoru.

Kobayashi Koichi has been very succesful over the recent years dominating the Meijin title (8 times in a row) and taking all big (best of 7) titles except the Honinbo title, which has been well defended by Cho Chikun so far.

Kobayashi Satoru is less famous than his contemporary members of the Kitani school. This might partly be due to the fact that he couldn't manage to grasp any of the big titles yet. Anyway, he made a great leap forward in his career this year by winning the final of the 1995 Kisei challenger tournament.

Below you will find the games of the final (best of three). You can request the game record by selecting the result.

	1	2	3	T
Kobayashi Satoru	0.5			2
Kobayashi Koichi		7.5	R	1

There are various ways a player can qualify for the final stages of the Challenger Tournament:

By the way, Kobayashi Satoru won the final of the 9 dan section (although that doesn't give any advantages over the 2nd place for the final of the challenger tournament). The seeding in the knockout schedule is determined by chance (drawing).

	Kobayashi Koichi, 9 dan	Kobayashi Koichi 4.5	Kobayashi Koichi 5.5
	Hikosaka Naoto, 9 dan
	Rin Kaiho, 9 dan	Rin Kaiho 4.5
Imamura Yoshiaki, 7 dan	Imamura Yoshiaki 7.5
Yuki Satoshi, 8 dan
	Hane Yasumasa, 9 dan	Kato Masao R	Kobayashi Satoru 1.5
Otake Hideo, 9 dan	Kato Masao 1.5
Kato Masao, 9 dan
Morita Michihiro, 7 dan	Kobayashi Satoru R	Kobayashi Satoru R
Kobayashi Satoru, 9 dan
	Kudo Norio, 9 dan

The winners of the dan sections 1 through 6 qualify for the final knockout tournament with one place in the Kisei challenger final at stake. These players are joined by the loosers of the 7 and 8 dan finals (Imamura Yoshiaki and Goto Shungo below). The winners of these sections (Morita Michihiro and Yuki Satoshi) qualify immediately for the final stages of the challenger final.

(-) Looser
(+) Winner
(*) Immediate qualification for the challenger league