34th 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.

Yamada Noriyoshi		Yamada Noriyoshi	Yamada Noriyoshi W+0.5 2008-09-25	O Meien B+7.5 2008-10-30
Mizokami Tomochika
Takemiya Masaki	Takemiya Masaki W+R 2008-08-21	Takemiya Masaki B+R 2008-09-04
Kamimura Haruo
Tsuruyama Atsushi
O Meien		O Meien W+R 2008-08-14	O Meien W+2.5 2008-09-25
Cho Sonjin
Nakaonoda Tomomi		Yoda Norimoto B+0.5 2008-09-04
Yoda Norimoto
Fujii Shuya		Kono Rin B+R 2008-09-04	Hane Naoki B+3.5 2008-09-25	Cho Riyu B+R 2008-11-06
Kono Rin
Yamashiro Hiroshi	Han Zenki	Hane Naoki W+R 2008-09-04
Han Zenki
Hane Naoki
Shuto Shun	Cho Riyu	Cho Riyu	Cho Riyu
Cho Riyu
Ito Yoji
Yamamoto Kentaro		Chin Kaei
Chin Kaei
Kato Atsushi		Kato Atsushi W+0.5 2008-08-21	Ryu Shikun W+R 2008-09-25	Ogata Masaki B+4.5 2008-10-16
Kobayashi Koichi
Ryu Shikun	Ryu Shikun B+R 2008-08-14	Ryu Shikun B+R 2008-09-11
Kubo Katsuaki
Yamashita Keigo
Yukawa Mitsuhisa	Ogata Masaki	Ogata Masaki	Ogata Masaki
Ogata Masaki
Ha Youngil
Murakawa Daisuke		Ko Iso
Ko Iso

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.	Iyama Yuta	8-0			W+R		W+R		W+R		W+R
2.	Yamada Kimio	6-2	B+R			W+R		B+R		W+R
3.	Cho Chikun	3-5		B+0.5			B+0.5		W+R		W+R
4.	Takao Shinji	5-3	B+R		W+1.5			W+4.5		B+3.5
5.	Sakai Hideyuki	5-3		B+R		B+R			W+3.5		W+R
6.	Kobayashi Satoru	3-5	B+R		B+R		B+R			W+R
7.	O Meien	2-6		B+0.5		B+R		W+R			W+R
8.	Ogata Masaki	4-4	B+R		W+R		B+R		W+R
9.	Cho Riyu	0-8		B+R		B+2.5		B+R		B+R

Cho Riyu, O Meien, and Kobayashi Satoru are demoted.

34th Meijin Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2009-09-03,04	Cho U	Iyama Yuta	B+0.5	304	sgf
2009-09-16,17	Iyama Yuta	Cho U	B+R	255	sgf
2009-09-24,25	Cho U	Iyama Yuta	W+R	246	sgf
2009-10-07,08	Iyama Yuta	Cho U	B+R	159	sgf
2009-10-14,15	Cho U	Iyama Yuta	W+R	176	sgf

Iyama Yuta won 4-1.