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14th Honinbo title

Preliminaries

The finals of the preliminaries were won by Iwamoto Kaoru, Fujisawa Hosai, Kano Yoshinori, and Yamabe Toshiro.

League

In the first column the white player, on the top row the black player.

# player result 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1. Sugiuchi Masao 3-4 B+0.5 B+R W+R W+0.5
2. Sakata Eio 5-2 W+8.5 W+R B+10.5 W+R
3. Kitani Minoru 6-1 W+R W+3.5 W+R
4. Fujisawa Shuko 4-3 B+4.5 B+R W+R
5. Fujisawa Hosai 3-4 W+4.5 B+R B+R B+R
6. Yamabe Toshiro 5-2 W+R B+R B+R W+0.5
7. Iwamoto Kaoru 2-5 B+R B+R B+R
8. Kano Yoshinori 0-7 B+4.5 B+R B+R

Kano Yoshinori, Iwamoto Kaoru, Fujisawa Hosai, and Sugiuchi Masao are demoted.

14th Honinbo Title

date black white result #mv sgf
1959-06-12,13 Kitani Minoru Takagawa Shukaku B+R 167 sgf
1959-06-22,23 Takagawa Shukaku Kitani Minoru B+2.5 255 sgf
1959-07-03,04 Kitani Minoru Takagawa Shukaku W+0.5 263 sgf
1959-07-14,15 Takagawa Shukaku Kitani Minoru W+R 170 sgf
1959-07-25,26 Kitani Minoru Takagawa Shukaku W+15.5 282 sgf
1959-08-05,06 Takagawa Shukaku Kitani Minoru B+R 227 sgf

Takagawa Shukaku won 4-2.