1st Kisei - Tournament

Tournament

Cho Chikun was eliminated in the preliminary stages by Yutaka Shiraishi. Eleven players competed in the main tournament: Yoshio Ishida, Masaki Takemiya Honinbo, Utaro Hashimoto, Eio Sakata and Hideo Otake Meijin were seeded into the quarter-finals. Masao Kato Judan, Hideyuki Fujisawa Tengen, Shuzo Ohira, Koichi Kobayashi, Rin Kaiho and Yutaka Shiraishi were matched up in the first round.

Hideyuki and Utaro reached the best of seven finals. Hideyuki took the first game, but lost the second. He then won three in a row and won his first of six straight titles.

Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
Yoshio Ishida 0
Hideyuki Fujisawa 1
Masao Kato 0
Hideyuki Fujisawa 1
Hideyuki Fujisawa 1
Masaki Takemiya 0
Shuzo Ohira 1
Koichi Kobayashi 0
Ohira Shuzo 0
Masaki Takemiya 1
Hideyuki Fujisawa 4
Utaro Hashimoto 1
Utaro Hashimoto 1
Sakata Eio 0
Utaro Hashimoto 1
Hideo Otake 0
Hideo Otake 1
Rin Kaiho 0
Rin Kaiho 1
Yutaka Shiraishi 0

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