35th Meijin title

Qualification tournament

The lowest three players from the previous year are demoted from the League, and a qualification tournament with three groups determines which three new players are allowed to enter the League.

Hane Naoki		Hane Naoki	Hane Naoki	Yuki Satoshi B+4.5 2009-10-29
Ito Yoji
Han Zenki	Morita Michihiro	Morita Michihiro
Morita Michihiro
Nakamura Shinya
Kanazawa Hideo	Yuki Satoshi	Yuki Satoshi B+5.5 2009-09-17	Yuki Satoshi
Yuki Satoshi
Tsuruyama Atsushi
Shida Tatsuya		Shida Tatsuya W+2.5 2009-08-27
Cho Riyu
Kono Rin		Kono Rin W+R 2009-08-06	Kono Rin B+R 2009-09-24	O Meien W+1.5 2009-10-22
Kim Pyonmin
Yamashiro Hiroshi	Yamashiro Hiroshi W+1.5 2009-08-06	Murakawa Daisuke
Kataoka Satoshi
Murakawa Daisuke
Takei Takashi	Honda Kunihisa	Honda Kunihisa	O Meien W+4.5 2009-10-01
Honda Kunihisa
Son Hideyo
Goto Shungo		O Meien B+2.5 2009-09-10
O Meien
Yamashita Keigo		Yamashita Keigo B+R 2009-09-03	Yamashita Keigo B+R 2009-10-08	Mizokami Tomochika B+1.5 2009-10-29
Mimura Tomoyasu
Fujii Shuya	Kobayashi Koichi W+3.5 2009-08-06	Kobayashi Koichi W+R 2009-08-27
Kobayashi Koichi
Komatsu Hideki
Ryu Shikun	Ryu Shikun B+7.5 2009-08-13	Yoda Norimoto W+1.5 2009-09-03	Mizokami Tomochika W+4.5 2009-10-08
Matsumoto Takehisa
Yoda Norimoto
Mizokami Tomochika		Mizokami Tomochika W+3.5 2009-08-27
Kobayashi Satoru

League

Results (in the first column the white player, on the top row the black player). The ordering of the first six players is according to their results in the previous year. The last three are the winners of the entrance matches.

#	player	result	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1.	Cho U	6-2		W+R		W+3.5		W+R		B+R
2.	Yamada Kimio	2-6			B+R		W+R		B+5.5		B+R
3.	Takao Shinji	7-1	B+R			W+1.5		W+7.5		W+R
4.	Sakai Hideyuki	4-4		W+R			W+R		B+0.5		B+3.5
5.	Ogata Masaki	2-6	W+2.5		B+R			B+11.5		W+1.5
6.	Cho Chikun	3-5		B+0.5		B+R			W+R		W+R
7.	O Meien	3-5	B+R		B+R		W+R			B+R
8.	Yuki Satoshi	5-3		W+R		B+R		W+R			W+3.5
9.	Mizokami Tomochika	4-4	B+8.5		B+R		W+1.5		W+R

Ogata Masaki, Yamada Kimio, and O Meien are demoted.

35th Meijin Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2010-09-01,02	Takao Shinji	Iyama Yuta	W+6.5	305	sgf
2010-09-16,17	Iyama Yuta	Takao Shinji	B+5.5	263	sgf
2010-09-22,23	Takao Shinji	Iyama Yuta	W+R	170	sgf
2010-10-06,07	Iyama Yuta	Takao Shinji	B+R	265	sgf

Iyama Yuta won 4-0.