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Saikyo
Keywords: Tournament
最強 Saikyo,the Japanese word for Strongest, was a title from 1959-1961, and is one of many obsolete titles in Japanese Go. Winners 1958 Go Seigen (8-1-1) Ahead of Kitani Minoru, Sakata Eio, Hashimoto Utaro, Takagawa Kaku and Fujisawa Hosai. 1959 Sakata Eio (8-1-1) Ahead of Kitani Minoru, Go Seigen, Iwata Masao, Hashimoto Utaro and Takagawa Kaku. 1960 Jointly Go Seigen and Sakata Eio (6-3-1) Ahead of Iwata Masao, Hashimoto Utaro, Hashimoto Shoji and Kitani Minoru The system was a league of six players, each playing the others twice.
See This title was replaced in 1962 by the Meijin title. With the exception of Iwata all were 9 dan, at a time when there were very few 9 dans. The series probably evolved from the 1957-1958 Japan's Strongest Deciding Matches. --TimBrent The 1st Nihon Saikyo games took place 1956-1958, for example. There is some scrambled information around for the late 1950s. Charles Matthews This is a copy of the living page "Saikyo" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |