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Honinbo
    Keywords: Culture & History, Tournament

During the Edo period the Honinbo was the head of the Honinbo school. Of the four traditional go schools, the Honinbo was the most prestigious and successful one. The last hereditary Honinbo, Shusai, gave his title to the Nihon Ki-in so as to turn it into a tournament title.

The Honinbo is now the third most important tournament on the Japanese professional calendar, with a winner's prize of 32 million Yen. The final - between the title holder and a challenger emerging from a preliminary tournament - is a best of seven, with 8 hours thinking time per player in each two day game.

-- Stefan

There is a list of the hereditary Honinbos. -- Tim Brent


Online collection of Honinbo final games [ext] http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/go/honinbo.html.


Currently they are playing the 58th Honinbo tournament in Japan. (7 games per tournament). The opponents are Kato Kensei Honinbo vs Cho U 8 dan.
Currently (as of July 10, 2003) they are playing the 6th game. You can get a kifu of the game at [ext] http://www.mainichi.co.jp/life/hobby/igo03/06/index.html

Games 1-5 are available from the menu at the right. If you don't understand Japanese, here are the links:
[ext] Game 1 [ext] Game 2 [ext] Game 3 [ext] Game 4 [ext] Game 5


There is also an interactive Java version available: [ext] http://www.mainichi.co.jp/life/hobby/igo03/playback/06.html

Note: Maybe we can move or delete this information after the current title match is decided (or after the next one starts).

The match is decided: Cho U wins the 6th game with 9.5 moku and is now the new title holder.

-- MarkD



This is a copy of the living page "Honinbo" at Sensei's Library.
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