I was fortunate to be able to attend the first game in Paris and after returning home tried to write down the marvelous analysis of Kataoka Satoshi, 9 dan, Takemiya Masaki, 9 dan, Kawamura Masamichi, 7 dan and Hotta Yozo, 9 dan. Please see the game record or download the gzipped PostScript file (16 pages).

Cho Chikun Born 1956-06-20 Rank 9p Stored games 3222 Using this name 3118  biography...  title matches...  game collection...

Kobayashi Koichi Born 1952-09-10 Rank 9p Stored games 2368 Using this name 2367  biography...  title matches...  game collection...

	1	2	3	4	5	6	T
Cho Chikun			R		R		4
Kobayashi Koichi	R	R		1.5		5.5	2

 their earlier games...   all their games...

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The challenger final (best of three) was played between Kobayashi Koichi and Yoda Norimoto.

The knockout below will determine the challenger of the current Kisei title holder Cho Chikun.