8th Meijin title

Newcomers

The lowest three players from the previous year are demoted, and entrance matches determine which three new players enter the League.

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
Qualification final	1982-10-21	Ishida Akira	Fujisawa Hosai	B+R	sgf
Qualification final	1982-10-28	Ishii Kunio	Kajiwara Takeo	B+8.5	sgf
Qualification final	1982-11-04	Takemiya Masaki	Tono Hiroaki	W+3.5	sgf

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.	Otake Hideo	7-1		W+6.5		W+T		W+R		W+R
2.	Rin Kaiho	6-2			W+9.5		W+3.5		B+R		W+3.5
3.	Kobayashi Koichi	4-4	B+R			B+10.5		W+R		W+R
4.	Sakata Eio	4-4		B+1.5			B+9.5		B+0.5		W+R
5.	Kato Masao	6-2	W+R		W+1.5			W+R		W+R
6.	Hane Yasumasa	2-6		B+R		B+R			W+R		B+R
7.	Tono Hiroaki	2-6	B+R		B+3.5		B+R			B+R
8.	Ishii Kunio	1-7		B+R		B+R		B+R			B+R
9.	Ishida Akira	4-4	B+R		B+R		W+1.5		W+R

Ishii Kunio, Tono Hiroaki, and Hane Yasumasa are demoted.

8th Meijin Title

game	date	black	white	result	sgf
1	1983-09-07,08	Otake Hideo	Cho Chikun	W+1.5	sgf
2	1983-09-20,21	Cho Chikun	Otake Hideo	B+R	sgf
3	1983-09-28,29	Otake Hideo	Cho Chikun	B+R	sgf
4	1983-10-12,13	Cho Chikun	Otake Hideo	B+R	sgf
5	1983-10-19,20	Otake Hideo	Cho Chikun	W+R	sgf

Cho Chikun won 4-1.