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Kisei
    Keywords: Tournament

The Kisei (棋聖) (translation "Go Saint") is the most prestigious top title of the Japanese professional Go scene. It is sponsored by the [ext] Yomiuri Shinbun. The title comes with a cool 42 million Yen in prize money.

As with all of the seven Japanese top titles, the title holder is challenged by the winner of a preliminary tournament (in this case a very long one). The final is a best of seven, played in January and February. Both players have 8 hours of thinking time, so every game is played during two consecutive days.

-- Stefan

Two players of the Japanese classical period are given the title 'Kisei': Dosaku and Shusaku.

Dave Sigaty: See [ext] Honinbo Jowa - Sage or Scoundrel by John Fairbairn that describes his elevation to the "status" of Kisei and his subsequent downfall from that position among the elite.

The Kisei 2003 is currently under way. The second game was adjourned on January 29, at move 64. Maybe we can discuss the position after day 1 in Kisei 2003 game 2.


DJ: AFAIK, the current Kisei-sen is the 2002: being a mammoth tournament, the final is actually played at the beginning of the year after the "nominal" one.


Charles Matthews: Yamashita Keigo is the new Kisei, having beaten O Rissei 4-1. The final game, just ended, lasted for 364 moves and saw Yamashita win by 1.5 as White; there were of course numerous ko fights.

A further thought. They presumably exchanged prisoners right at the end. Is there etiquette for doing this? Has it happened before in a big title game?



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