20th Kisei

The 20th Kisei 20th iteration of the Kisei tournament, a tournament in the board game go. It was won by Cho Chikun and held in 1996. The first match was played outside Japan, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Chikun won 4 games to 3 over Kobayashi Satoru in the final.[1]

Tournament

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Round of 16Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
              
 
 
 
 
Susumu Fukui0
 
 
 
-0
 
Susumu Fukui0
 
 
 
Kunihisa Honda1
 
Kunihisa Honda0
 
 
 
-0
 
Kunihisa Honda0
 
 
 
Cho Chikun1
 
Cho Chikun Honinbo0
 
 
 
-0
 
Cho Chikun1
 
 
 
Hideo Otake0
 
Hideo Otake1
 
 
 
Satoshi Yuki0
 
Cho Chikun2
 
 
 
Masao Kato0
 
So Kofuku0
 
 
 
(automatic berth)0
 
So Kofuku0
 
 
 
Koichi Kobayashi1
 
Koichi Kobayashi Meijin1
 
 
 
Yujiro Hashimoto0
 
Koichi Kobayashi0
 
 
 
Masao Kato1
 
Ryu Shikun Tengen0
 
 
 
(automatic berth)0
 
Ryu Shikun0
 
 
 
Masao Kato1
 
Masaki Takemiya0
 
 
Masao Kato1
 

Challenger finals

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Player 1 2 3 T
Cho Chikun Honinbo W+1.5 W+R 2
Masao Kato 9 dan 0

Finals

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Player 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 T
Kobayashi Satoru (Kisei) W+R W+R W+R 3
Cho Chikun (Challenger) W+R W+R W+1.5 W+R 4

References

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  1. ^ 20th Kisei from GoBase.org Retrieved March 12, 2007