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 (or [ext] sold) his title to the Nihon Ki-in so as to turn it into a tournament title.

The Honinbo title 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.

Cho U Honinbo Oza is the current titleholder (July 2004).

There is a list of the hereditary Honinbos.

There is a list of Honinbo Tournament Winners.


External links

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

[ext] http://www.gobase.org

The 59th Honinbo tournament concluded on July 8, 2004. Cho U Honinbo Oza defeated Yoda Norimoto Meijin Gosei in 6 games. The games from the title match can be found at the Mainichi newsapaper web site [ext] http://www.mainichi-msn.co.jp/shakai/gakugei/igo/honinbou/ The game records are available, as are java applets replaying the games. If you have a UGI viewer (PandaEgg IGS client, for example) you can also use the "live" replaying.


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