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20th Kisei

The 20th Kisei 20th iteration of the Kisei tournament, a tournament in the board game go. It was won by Cho Chikun and held in 1996. The first match was played outside Japan, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Chikun won 4 games to 3 over Kobayashi Satoru in the final.

Tournament

Round of 16 Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                           
           
 Susumu Fukui  0
 -  0  
 Susumu Fukui  0
   Kunihisa Honda  1  
 Kunihisa Honda  0
 -  0  
 Kunihisa Honda  0
   Cho Chikun  1  
 Cho Chikun Honinbo  0
 -  0  
 Cho Chikun  1
   Hideo Otake  0  
 Hideo Otake  1
 Satoshi Yuki  0  
 Cho Chikun  2
   Masao Kato  0
 So Kofuku  0
 (automatic berth)  0  
 So Kofuku  0
   Koichi Kobayashi  1  
 Koichi Kobayashi Meijin  1
 Yujiro Hashimoto  0  
 Koichi Kobayashi  0
   Masao Kato  1  
 Ryu Shikun Tengen  0
 (automatic berth)  0  
 Ryu Shikun  0
   Masao Kato  1  
 Masaki Takemiya  0
 Masao Kato  1  

Challenger finals

Player
1
2
3
T
Cho Chikun Honinbo W+1.5 W+R 2
Masao Kato 9 dan 0

Finals

Player
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
T
Satoru Kobayashi (Kisei) W+R W+R W+R 3
Cho Chikun (Challenger) W+R W+R W+1.5 W+R 4
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