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Games of Cho Chikun in the Kisei

1976 was the year the Kisei started. After a conflict with the Nihon Ki-in, the Yomiuri newspaper lost the sponsorship of the prestigeous Meijin. They came back with a new tournament, the richest in the world, especially if you add the fees paid in the qualifying rounds. The qualifying rounds are every complex and have changed over times. In terms 1 to 9 it was as follows.

• The dan championship (knockout tournaments for each dan category)
• A win and continue tournament for the dan winners: the All-dan Winners Tournament
• The challenger's deciding tournament (where all players were chosen by a committee, but some players, such as the winner of stage two were guaranteed a place), ending in a best-of-three play-off. Also called the Strongest Player's Tournament.

It is understandable that with such a large tournament even not all result tables get published. What is missing are games from the 7 and 8-dan championship in terms 1-5. The rest is complete!

Nr.	Date & Opponent	Event & Result	Mvs
1	1976-03-25 Sonoda Yuichi	1st Kisei, 7-dan section (B, B+R)	121
2	1977-04-01 Kobayashi Koichi	1st Kisei Accession Ceremony (W, B+R)	165
3	1978-07-06 Awaji Shuzo	3rd Kisei, 7-dan Final (B, B+3.5)	276
4	1978-08-14 Kudo Norio	3rd Kisei, All-dan Winners, Round 1 (B, W+2.5)	248
5	1980-01-11 Kobayashi Koichi	4th Kisei Eve Party (B, W+9.5)	238
6	1980-04-10 Sakai Takeshi	5th Kisei, 8-dan Semi-final (B, B+4.5)	274
7	1980-05-15 Chino Tadahiko	5th Kisei, 8-dan Final (W, W+R)	166
8	1980-06-26 Kojima Takaho	5th Kisei, Dan Champions' Quarter-final (B, B+R)	155
9	1980-08-07 Hashimoto Shoji	5th Kisei, Dan Champions' Semi-final (B, B+R)	241
10	1980-09-03 Sakata Eio	5th Kisei, Dan Champions' Final (B, B+R)	203
11	1980-10-16 Sekiyama Toshio	5th Kisei, Strongest Players' Quarter-final (W, W+1.5)	250
12	1980-11-13 Sakata Eio	5th Kisei, Strongest Players' Semi-final (B, B+6.5)	236
13	1980-11-27 Otake Hideo	5th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 1 (W, B+4.5)	287
14	1980-12-11 Otake Hideo	5th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 2 (B, B+R)	217
15	1980-12-18 Otake Hideo	5th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 3 (W, B+3.5)	277
16	1981-10-19 Kobayashi Koichi	6th Kisei, Strongest Players' Quarter-final (W, B+0.5)	221
17	1982-11-04 Hane Yasumasa	7th Kisei, Strongest Players' Quarter-final (B, B+7.5)	252
18	1982-11-25 Rin Kaiho	7th Kisei, Strongest Players' Semi-final (W, W+R)	226
19	1982-12-09 Kato Masao	7th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 1 (W, W+2.5)	252
20	1982-12-16 Kato Masao	7th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 2 (B, B+R)	187
21	1983-01-13 Fujisawa Hideyuki	7th Kisei Final, Game 1 (W, B+4.5)	265
22	1983-01-26 Fujisawa Hideyuki	7th Kisei Final, Game 2 (B, W+R)	166
23	1983-02-02 Fujisawa Hideyuki	7th Kisei Final, Game 3 (W, B+3.5)	187
24	1983-02-16 Fujisawa Hideyuki	7th Kisei Final, Game 4 (B, B+R)	219
25	1983-02-23 Fujisawa Hideyuki	7th Kisei Final, Game 5 (W, W+R)	172
26	1983-03-09 Fujisawa Hideyuki	7th Kisei Final, Game 6 (B, B+5.5)	293
27	1983-03-16 Fujisawa Hideyuki	7th Kisei Final, Game 7 (W, W+1.5)	268
28	1984-01-12 Rin Kaiho	8th Kisei Final, Game 1 (B, B+R)	237
29	1984-01-25 Rin Kaiho	8th Kisei Final, Game 2 (W, W+R)	162
30	1984-02-01 Rin Kaiho	8th Kisei Final, Game 3 (B, B+R)	271
31	1984-02-15 Rin Kaiho	8th Kisei Final, Game 4 (W, B+2.5)	250
32	1984-02-22 Rin Kaiho	8th Kisei Final, Game 5 (B, W+R)	168
33	1984-03-07 Rin Kaiho	8th Kisei Final, Game 6 (W, W+0.5)	225
34	1985-01-16 Takemiya Masaki	9th Kisei Final, Game 1 (B, B+7.5)	238
35	1985-01-30 Takemiya Masaki	9th Kisei Final, Game 2 (W, B+R)	109
36	1985-02-06 Takemiya Masaki	9th Kisei Final, Game 3 (B, W+R)	204
37	1985-02-20 Takemiya Masaki	9th Kisei Final, Game 4 (W, W+0.5)	271
38	1985-02-27 Takemiya Masaki	9th Kisei Final, Game 5 (B, W+R)	174
39	1985-03-13 Takemiya Masaki	9th Kisei Final, Game 6 (W, W+4.5)	261
40	1985-03-19 Takemiya Masaki	9th Kisei Final, Game 7 (W, W+1.5)	159
41	1986-01-16 Kobayashi Koichi	10th Kisei Final, Game 1 (B, W+2.5)	216
42	1986-01-29 Kobayashi Koichi	10th Kisei Final, Game 2 (W, W+3.5)	238
43	1986-02-05 Kobayashi Koichi	10th Kisei Final, Game 3 (B, B+1.5)	251
44	1986-02-19 Kobayashi Koichi	10th Kisei Final, Game 4 (W, B+2.5)	265
45	1986-02-26 Kobayashi Koichi	10th Kisei Final, Game 5 (B, W+R)	186
46	1986-03-12 Kobayashi Koichi	10th Kisei Final, Game 6 (W, B+R)	241
47	1986-09-11 Miyazawa Goro	11th Kisei, Strongest Players' Tournament, Quarter-final (W, W+R)	156
48	1986-11-13 Takemiya Masaki	11th Kisei, Strongest Players' Tournament, Semi-final (B, W+R)	164
49	1987-03/06 Yamashiro Hiroshi	12th Kisei, 9-dan Section, Round 1 (?, +)	?
50	1987-03/06 Rin Kaiho	12th Kisei, 9-dan Section, Round 2 (?, +)	?
51	1987-03/06 Shiraishi Yutaka	12th Kisei, 9-dan Section, Round 3 (?, +)	?
52	1987-06-25 Sakata Eio	12th Kisei, 9-dan Section Final (W, W+0.5)	220
53	1987-10-01 O Meien	12th Kisei, Strongest Players Championship, Quarter-final (W, W+R)	196
54	1987-10-29 Otake Hideo	12th Kisei, Strongest Players Championship, Semi-final (W, B+R)	155
55	1988-09-01 Kataoka Satoshi	13th Kisei, Strongest Players Tournament, Round 1 (W, W+0.5)	272
56	1988-09-15 Ohira Shuzo	13th Kisei, Strongest Players Tournament, Quarter-final (B, B+R)	143
57	1988-10-06 Kato Masao	13th Kisei, Strongest Players Tournament, Semi-final (B, B+2.5)	223
58	1988-11-03 Takemiya Masaki	13th Kisei, Challengers' playoff, Game 1 (W, W+4.5)	230
59	1988-12-08 Takemiya Masaki	13th Kisei, Challengers' playoff, Game 2 (B, W+R)	168
60	1988-12-15 Takemiya Masaki	13th Kisei, Challengers' playoff, Game 3 (B, W+R)	194
61	1989-09-28 O Rissei	14th Kisei, Strongest Players' Quarter-final (W, W+3.5)	291
62	1989-10-19 Takemiya Masaki	14th Kisei, Strongest Players' Semi-final (W, W+8.5)	249
63	1989-11-02 Otake Hideo	14th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 1 (B, W+8.5)	234
64	1989-11-30 Otake Hideo	14th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 2 (W, B+R)	97
65	1990-10-11 Rin Kaiho	15th Kisei, Strongest Players' Quarter-final (W, W+4.5)	273
66	1990-10-18 Kato Masao	15th Kisei, Strongest Players' Semi-final (W, B+3.5)	246
67	1991-09-12 Fujisawa Hideyuki	16th Kisei, Strongest Players' Quarter-Final (B, B+R)	195
68	1991-10-17 Ohira Shuzo	16th Kisei Tournament, Strongest Players' Semi-final (B, B+R)	185
69	1991-11-14 Yamashiro Hiroshi	16th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 1 (W, W+5.5)	268
70	1991-11-28 Yamashiro Hiroshi	16th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 2 (B, W+0.5)	296
71	1991-12-05 Yamashiro Hiroshi	16th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 3 (W, B+3.5)	234
72	1992-08-27 Kato Masao	17th Kisei, Strongest Players' Section, Round 1 (B, W+R)	146
73	1993-09-02 Takemiya Masaki	18th Kisei, Strongest Players Tournament, Round 2 (B, B+7.5)	197
74	1993-09-23 Hane Yasumasa	18th Kisei, Strongest Players Quarter-final (B, B+R)	175
75	1993-11-04 Otake Hideo	18th Kisei, Strongest Players' Tournament, Semi-final (W, W+R)	176
76	1993-11-25 Kato Masao	18th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 1 (B, W+6.5)	213
77	1993-12-02 Kato Masao	18th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 2 (W, W+1.5)	215
78	1993-12-09 Kato Masao	18th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 3 (B, B+2.5)	264
79	1994-01-12 Kobayashi Koichi	18th Kisei Final, Game 1 (W, B+R)	169
80	1994-01-26 Kobayashi Koichi	18th Kisei Final, Game 2 (B, B+6.5)	241
81	1994-02-02 Kobayashi Koichi	18th Kisei Final, Game 3 (W, W+3.5)	211
82	1994-02-16 Kobayashi Koichi	18th Kisei Final, Game 4 (B, B+R)	167
83	1994-02-23 Kobayashi Koichi	18th Kisei Final, Game 5 (W, B+3.5)	234
84	1994-03-09 Kobayashi Koichi	18th Kisei Final, Game 6 (B, B+6.5)	250
85	1995-01-18 Kobayashi Satoru	19th Kisei Final, Game 1 (B, B+R)	159
86	1995-02-01 Kobayashi Satoru	19th Kisei Final, Game 2 (W, B+R)	69
87	1995-02-08 Kobayashi Satoru	19th Kisei Final, Game 3 (B, B+R)	199
88	1995-02-22 Kobayashi Satoru	19th Kisei Final, Game 4 (W, B+3.5)	210
89	1995-03-01 Kobayashi Satoru	19th Kisei Final, Game 5 (B, W+R)	204
90	1995-03-15 Kobayashi Satoru	19th Kisei Final, Game 6 (W, B+R)	177
91	1995-09-14 Otake Hideo	20th Kisei, Strongest Players Tournament, Round 2 (B, B+R)	209
92	1995-10-05 Honda Kunihisa	20th Kisei, Strongest Players Tournament, Semi-final (W, W+R)	160
93	1995-11-09 Kato Masao	20th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 1 (B, B+1.5)	244
94	1995-11-30 Kato Masao	20th Kisei, Strongest Players' Final, Game 1 (W, W+R)	124
95	1996-01-17 Kobayashi Satoru	20th Kisei Final, Game 1 (W, B+R)	85
96	1996-01-31 Kobayashi Satoru	20th Kisei Final, Game 2 (B, B+R)	191
97	1996-02-07 Kobayashi Satoru	20th Kisei Final, Game 3 (W, W+R)	216
98	1996-02-21 Kobayashi Satoru	20th Kisei Final, Game 4 (B, B+1.5)	266
99	1996-03-06 Kobayashi Satoru	20th Kisei Final, Game 5 (W, B+R)	191
100	1996-03-13 Kobayashi Satoru	20th Kisei Final, Game 6 (B, W+R)	178
101	1996-03-27 Kobayashi Satoru	20th Kisei Final, Game 7 (W, W+R)	136
102	1997-01-15 Kobayashi Satoru	21st Kisei Final, Game 1 (B, B+R)	145
103	1997-01-29 Kobayashi Satoru	21st Kisei Final, Game 2 (W, W+R)	190
104	1997-02-05 Kobayashi Satoru	21st Kisei Final, Game 3 (B, W+R)	158
105	1997-02-19 Kobayashi Satoru	21st Kisei Final, Game 4 (W, W+R)	184
106	1997-02-26 Kobayashi Satoru	21st Kisei Final, Game 5 (B, B+1.5)	233
107	1998-01-14 Yoda Norimoto	22nd Kisei Final, Game 1 (B, B+R)	189
108	1998-01-28 Yoda Norimoto	22nd Kisei Final, Game 2 (W, W+3.5)	222
109	1998-02-04 Yoda Norimoto	22nd Kisei Final, Game 3 (B, B+R)	93
110	1998-02-18 Yoda Norimoto	22nd Kisei Final, Game 4 (W, B+R)	89
111	1998-02-25 Yoda Norimoto	22nd Kisei Final, Game 5 (B, W+R)	114
112	1998-03-11 Yoda Norimoto	22nd Kisei Final, Game 6 (W, W+4.5)	265
113	1999-01-13 Kobayashi Koichi	23rd Kisei Final, Game 1 (B, B+R)	203
114	1999-01-27 Kobayashi Koichi	23rd Kisei Final, Game 2 (W, W+R)	208
115	1999-02-03 Kobayashi Koichi	23rd Kisei Final, Game 3 (B, W+R)	186
116	1999-02-17 Kobayashi Koichi	23rd Kisei Final, Game 4 (W, W+1.5)	287
117	1999-02-24 Kobayashi Koichi	23rd Kisei Final, Game 5 (B, W+R)	102
118	1999-03-10 Kobayashi Koichi	23rd Kisei Final, Game 6 (W, W+5.5)	272
119	2000-01-12 O Rissei	24th Kisei Final, Game 1 (W, W+4.5)	273
120	2000-01-26 O Rissei	24th Kisei Final, Game 2 (B, W+R)	180
121	2000-02-02 O Rissei	24th Kisei Final, Game 3 (W, W+R)	194
122	2000-02-16 O Rissei	24th Kisei Final, Game 4 (B, W+12.5)	245
123	2000-02-23 O Rissei	24th Kisei Final, Game 5 (W, B+5.5)	257
124	2000-03-08 O Rissei	24th Kisei Final, Game 6 (B, W+R)	132
125	2000-06-01 Yo Kagen	25th Kisei, A League (B, B+R)	183
126	2000-07-20 Ryu Shikun	25th Kisei, A League (B, W+R)	162
127	2000-08-14 Ishida Atsushi	25th Kisei, A League (W, W+4.5)	229
128	2000-09-14 Awaji Shuzo	25th Kisei, A League (B, W+0.5)	293
129	2000-10-05 Imamura Toshiya	25th Kisei, A League (W, W+R)	98
130	2001-06-21 Ishida Atsushi	26th Kisei, League, Group B, game 3 (B, B+5.5)	245
131	2001-07-19 Hane Naoki	26th Kisei, League, Group B, game 6 (W, W+R)	214
132	2001-08-09 Awaji Shuzo	26th Kisei, League, Group B, game 8 (B, B+R)	131
133	2001-09-06 Mizokami Tomochika	26th Kisei, League, Group B, game 10 (B, W+0.5)	242
134	2001-10-11 Ishida Yoshio	26th Kisei, League, Group B, game 14 (W, W+4.5)	259
135	2001-11-08 Ryu Shikun	26th Kisei, Challengers' playoff (B, W+R)	194
136	2002-06-20 Cho Sonjin	27th Kisei League B (W, B+R)	215
137	2002-07-11 Awaji Shuzo	27th Kisei League B (B, B+R)	205
138	2002-08-29 Yamashita Keigo	27th Kisei League B (W, B+R)	161
139	2002-09-05 Kobayashi Satoru	27th Kisei League B (B, W+R)	76
140	2002-10-28 Cho U	27th Kisei League B (W, W+R)	78
141	2003-06-05 O Meien	28th Kisei League B (W, W+R)	152
142	2003-07-10 Yoda Norimoto	28th Kisei League B (B, B+6.5)	278
143	2003-08-21 Awaji Shuzo	28th Kisei League B (B, B+R)	167
144	2003-09-04 Cho U	28th Kisei League B (W, B+R)	193
145	2003-10-09 Ryu Shikun	28th Kisei League B (B, B+3.5)	242
146	2003-11-13 Hane Naoki	28th Kisei, Challengers' playoff (W, B+2.5)	257
147	2004-06-17 Imamura Yoshiaku	29th Kisei League B (W, W+R)	182
148	2004-07-01 Cho U	29th Kisei League B (B, W+R)	130
149	2004-08-26 O Rissei	29th Kisei League B (W, B+R)	155
150	2004-09-09 Yuki Satoshi	29th Kisei League B (W, B+R)	113
151	2004-10-07 Kobayashi Satoru	29th Kisei League B (B, B+R)	159
152	2005-02-10 Hane Yasumasa	30th Kisei Preliminary Group 1, Round 1 (B, B+R)	163
153	2005-03-24 Kimu Sujun	30th Kisei Preliminary Group 1, Round 2 (W, B+R)
154	2006-02-02 O Meien	31st Kisei Preliminary Group 3, Round 1 (W, W+R)	188
155	2006-03-23 Hoshino Masaki	31st Kisei Preliminary Group 3, Round 2 (B, B+R)	157
156	2006-04-20 Morita Michihiro	31st Kisei Preliminary Group 3, Final (B, B+R)	165
157	2006-06-22 Yuki Satoshi	31st Kisei League B (W, B+R)	186
158	2006-07-20 Kobayashi Satoru	31st Kisei League B (B, W+R)	105
159	2006-08-03 Kato Atsushi	31st Kisei League B (B, B+8.5)	267
160	2006-09-21 Imamura Toshiyo	31st Kisei League B (B, W+R)	112
161	2006-10-05 O Rissei	31st Kisei League B (B, W+R)
162	2007-01-25 Ishii Kunio	32nd Kisei Preliminary Group 1, Round 1 (W, W+R)	126
163	2007-02-22 Kono Mitsuki	32nd Kisei Preliminary Group 1, Round 2 (B, B+R)	157
164	2007-03-22 Imamura Yoshiaki	32nd Kisei Preliminary Group 1, Final (B, B+9.5)	218
165	2007-06-21 Iyama Yuta	32nd Kisei League Group B (W, W+6.5)	240
166	2007-07-12 Kato Atsushi	32nd Kisei League Group B (B, B+R)	151
167	2007-08-02 Imamura Toshiya	32nd Kisei League Group B (B, W+R)	156
168	2007-09-20 Komatsu Hideki	32nd Kisei League Group B (W, W+R)	225
169	2007-10-04 Hane Naoki	32nd Kisei League Group B (W, W+5.5)

Major Japanese

• Kisei
• Honinbo
• Meijin
• Judan
• Oza
• Gosei
• Tengen

International

• Fujitsu Cup
• IBM Hayago Open
• Ing Cup
• LG Cup
• Chunlan Cup
• Samsung Cup
• Tong Yang Securities Cup
• Toyota & Denso Cup
• Zhonghuan Cup
• Nongshim Cup

Hayago

• NEC Cup
• JT Cup
• Kakusei
• Hayago Championship
• NHK Cup
• Ryusei
• Acom Cup
• Agon-Kiriyama Cup
• Kirin Cup
• JAL Super Hayago

Older

• Nihon Ki-in Championship
• Pro Best Ten
• Prime Minister's Cup
• Shinjin-O
• Shin'ei

Others

• Pair Go
• Insei Tournament
• Oteai
• Shusai Cup
• Asahi Top Eight
• Kido Championship
• Young Stars Gonin-nuki
• Three-game Rivals Match
• Japan Series League
• JAA Cup

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