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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 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.

Currently they are playing the 59th Honinbo tournament in Japan. (7 games per tournament). The opponents are Cho U Honinbo Oza vs Yoda Norimoto Meijin Gosei. The match runs from 7 May 2004 (first game) to 21 July 2004 (seventh game).

There is a list of the hereditary Honinbos.


External links

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

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

The 58th Honinbo match games: [ext] Game 1 [ext] Game 2 [ext] Game 3 [ext] Game 4 [ext] Game 5 [ext] Game 6


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



This is a copy of the living page "Honinbo" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.