30th Kisei

The 30th Kisei was held from May 2005 to February 22, 2006. The players to have qualified through preliminary tournaments are Toshiya Imamura, Atsushi Kato, Hideki Komatsu, and Kunihisa Honda. The players to have returned from the previous year are Satoshi Yuki, Norimoto Yoda, Cho U, Tomoyasu Mimura, Keigo Yamashita, O Rissei, O Meien, and Kobayashi Satoru. Players who end with the two lowest records in the each league are eliminated from automatic berth into the next tournament.

Keigo Yamashita came out victorious with a sweep of 4 games to none. It was the first time since the 5th Kisei in 1981 where there was a sweep. [ [http://gobase.org/games/jp/kisei/5/ 5th Kisei at GoBase.org] ] The title was Yamashita's second Kisei in 3 years, the first coming in the 27th Kisei versus O Rissei. [ [http://gobase.org/games/jp/kisei/27/ 27th Kisei at GoBase.org] ]

Preliminaries

Group A

Round8
|Toshiya Imamura "9 dan"|1|Rin Kono "7 dan"|0
|Ei Kandei "9 dan"|1|Yusaku Ogaki "9 dan"|0
|Ei Umeki "8 dan"|0|Kim Shushun "7 dan"|1
|Yasumasa Hane "9 dan"|0|Cho Chikun "Judan"|1
|Toshiya Imamura "9 dan"|1|Ei Kandei "9 dan"|0
|Kim Shushun "7 dan"|1|Cho Chikun "Judan"|0
|Toshiya Imamura "9 dan"|1|Kim Shushun "7 dan"|0

Group B

Round8
|Rin Kaiho "Honorary Tengen"|0|Atsushi Kato "8 dan"|1
|Yuta Iyama "3 dan"|1|Shigeaki Yokota "9 dan"|0
|Hironari Kano "9 dan"|0|Hideo Otake
"Honorary Gosei"|1
|Koichi Oya "9 dan"|0|Goro Miyazawa "9 dan"|1
|Atsushi Kato "8 dan"|1|Yuta Iyama "3 dan"|0
|Hideo Otake "Honorary Gosei"|0|Goro Miyazawa "9 dan"|1
|Atsushi Kato "8 dan"|1|Goro Miyazawa "9 dan"|0

Group C

Round8
|Norio Kudo "9 dan"|0|Masaki Ogata "9 dan"|1
|Masayuki Kurahashi "9 dan"|1|Yoshio Ishida
"Honorary Honinbo"|0
|Hideki Komatsu "9 dan"|1|Yoshio Ueki "8 dan"|0
|Yuichi Sonada "9 dan"|0|Yoshiaki Imamura "8 dan"|1
|Ogata Masaki "9 dan"|1|Masayuki Kurahashi "9 dan"|0
|Hideki Komatsu "9 dan"|1|Yoshiaki Imamura "8 dan"|0
|Ogata Masaki "9 dan"|0|Hideki Komatsu "9 dan"|1

Group D

Round8
|Seiken Takanashi "8 dan"|0|Michihiro Morita "9 dan"|1
|Kimio Yamada "8 dan"|1|Shungo Goto "9 dan"|0
|Kunihisa Honda "9 dan"|1|Hideki Enda "9 dan"|0
|Rin Shien "6 dan"|0|Ryu Shikun "9 dan"|1
|Michihiro Morita "9 dan"|1|Kimio Yamada "8 dan"|0
|Kunihisa Honda "9 dan"|1|Ryu Shikun "9 dan"|0
|Michihiro Morita "9 dan"|0|Kunihisa Honda "9 dan"|1 [http://web.archive.org/web/20060306190901/http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kisei.html Igo-Kisen] ]

Main tournament

Group A

[http://web.archive.org/web/20060306190901/http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kisei.html Igo-Kisen] ]

Finals

[http://web.archive.org/web/20060306190901/http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kisei.html Igo-Kisen] ]

References

External links

* [http://gobase.org/games/jp/kisei/30/ The 30th Kisei at GoBase.org]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060306190901/http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/kisei.html The 30th Kisei at Igo-Kisen]

Kisei
preceded=29th Kisei
succeeded=31st Kisei