1st Honinbo

Go Tournament The 1st Honinbo was the first ever professional Go tournament. Eight players competed for the title. The tournament utilized a makeshift league system where players would play four knockout rounds. At the end of each round, the winning player would receive six points. The runner-up would receive five, and the losing semi-finalists would have a playoff to decide who finished in third (four points) and fourth (three points). Players knocked out in the first round received one point. White received 4.5 komi during the knockout rounds and players had 13 hours thinking time. Tamejiro Suzuki, however, was granted 16 hours thinking time because of his disdain for time limits. At the conclusion of the fourth knockout round, the two top players in the standings, Riichi Sekiyama and Shin Kato, played a six-game series to decide the winner. The initial series finished even at three games, but Sekiyama was given the title for having accumulated more points in the knockout rounds.http://gobase.org/games/jp/honinbo/1/ honinbo title, 1st edition, 1941 gobase.org 2 July 2011https://xinwengolife.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/the-first-honinbo-title/ The First Honinbo Title xinwengolife.wordpress.com 2 July 2011 Tournament First knockout round Tamejiro Suzuki 0 Go Seigen 1 Katsukiyo Kubomatsu 0 Nobuaki Maeda 1 Kensaku Segoe 0 Riichi Sekiyama 1 Shin Kato 1 Minoru Kitani 0 Go Seigen 1 Nobuaki Maeda 0 Riichi Sekiyama 1 Shin Kato 0 Go Seigen 1 Riichi Sekiyama 0 Maeda Nobuaki 0 Shin Kato 1 Second knockout round Katsukiyo Kubomatsu 0 Shin Kato 1 Kensaku Segoe 0 Tamejiro Suzuki 1 Nobuaki Maeda 1 Go Seigen 0 Minoru Kitani 0 Riichi Sekiyama 1 Shin Kato 1 Tamejiro Suzuki 1 Nobuaki Maeda 0 Riichi Sekiyama 1 Shin Kato 0 Riichi Sekiyama 1 Tamejiro Suzuki 0 Nobuaki Maeda 1 Third knockout round Tamejiro Suzuki 0 Minoru Kitani 1 Shin Kato 1 Go Seigen 0 Nobuaki Maeda 1 Kensaku Segoe 0 Katsukiyo Kubomatsu 1 Riichi Sekiyama 0 Minoru Kitani 1 Shin Kato 0 Nobuaki Maeda 1 Katsukiyo Kubomatsu 0 Minoru Kitani 1 Nobuaki Maeda 0 Shin Kato 0 Katsukiyo Kubomatsu 1 Fourth knockout round Riichi Sekiyama 1 Nobuaki Maeda 0 Go Seigen 1 Minoru Kitani 0 Tamejiro Suzuki 0 Shin Kato 1 Katsukiyo Kubomatsu 0 Kensaku Segoe 1 Riichi Sekiyama 0 Go Seigen 1 Shin Kato 0 Kensaku Segoe 1 Go Seigen 1 Kensaku Segoe 0 Riichi Sekiyama 1 Shin Kato 0 Final standings Pos. Player Pts. 1 Riichi Sekiyama 16 2 Shin Kato 15 3 Go Seigen 14 4 Nobuaki Maeda 13 5 Minoru Kitani 9 6 Kensaku Segoe 8 7 Katsukiyo Kubomatsu 7 8 Tamejiro Suzuki 6 References Category:Go competitions in Japan Category:1941 in go