38th 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.

Sakai Hideyuki		Sakai Hideyuki B+R 2012-08-23	Sakai Hideyuki	Sakai Hideyuki W+R 2012-11-08
So Yokoku
Takei Takashi	Yu Zhengqi	Yu Zhengqi
Yu Zhengqi
Hon Seisen
Ryu Shikun		Ryu Shikun W+R 2012-09-20	Kim Sujun W+1.5 2012-10-25
Shuto Shun
Nakane Naoyuki		Kim Sujun
Kim Sujun
Shida Tatsuya		Cho Riyu	Nakano Yasuhiro	Yuki Satoshi B+2.5 2012-11-08
Cho Riyu
Yamashiro Hiroshi	Yoda Norimoto B+R 2012-09-06	Nakano Yasuhiro B+R 2012-09-20
Yoda Norimoto
Nakano Yasuhiro
Ohashi Hirofumi		Han Zenki W+0.5 2012-08-30	Yuki Satoshi
Han Zenki
Ogata Masaki		Yuki Satoshi B+R 2012-09-06
Yuki Satoshi
Lee Ishu		Lee Ishu	Komatsu Hideki	Murakawa Daisuke B+R 2012-11-08
Oya Koichi
Takemiya Masaki	Kiyonari Tetsuya B+R 2012-08-23	Komatsu Hideki
Kiyonari Tetsuya
Komatsu Hideki
Murakawa Daisuke		Murakawa Daisuke W+4.5 2012-08-23	Murakawa Daisuke
Cho Chikun
Ko Iso		Uchida Shuhei
Uchida Shuhei

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.	Hane Naoki	5-3		B+R		W+R		W+3.5		W+6.5
2.	Iyama Yuta	6-2			W+R		B+R		W+10.5		W+R
3.	Kono Rin	6-2	B+R			W+R		W+R		W+R
4.	Takao Shinji	5-3		W+3.5			W+2.5		B+R		W+R
5.	Cho U	6-2	W+3.5		B+R			W+R		W+2.5
6.	Mizokami Tomochika	1-7		B+10.5		B+R			B+0.5		B+R
7.	Yuki Satoshi	2-6	B+R		B+R		B+R			B+R
8.	Sakai Hideyuki	1-7		B+R		B+R		B+4.5			B+5.5
9.	Murakawa Daisuke	4-4	W+R		B+1.5		B+R		W+R

Sakai Hideyuki, Mizokami Tomochika, and Yuki Satoshi are demoted.

Playoff

Kono Rin and Iyama Yuta both had 6 wins, and played a challenger playoff that was won by Iyama Yuta.

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2013-08-05	Iyama Yuta	Kono Rin	B+R	169	sgf

38th Meijin Title

date	black	white	result	#mv	sgf
2013-09-05,06	Iyama Yuta	Yamashita Keigo	W+R	172	sgf
2013-09-19,20	Yamashita Keigo	Iyama Yuta	W+R	162	sgf
2013-09-25,26	Iyama Yuta	Yamashita Keigo	B+1.5	275	sgf
2013-10-09,10	Yamashita Keigo	Iyama Yuta	W+R	196	sgf
2013-10-16,17	Iyama Yuta	Yamashita Keigo	B+4.5	258	sgf

Iyama Yuta won 4-1.