1st Gosei title - 1976

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# 1st Gosei title

## League qualification

Ishida Yoshio | Yamabe Toshiro W+R 1975-08-21 | Cho Chikun W+R 1975-11-27
Yamabe Toshiro
Cho Chikun | Cho Chikun B+R 1975-11-06
Ushinohama Satsuo
Kato Masao | Kato Masao W+R 1975-09-04 | Kato Masao B+R 1975-11-27
Kudo Norio
Fujisawa Shuko | Rin Kaiho W+R 1975-10-16
Rin Kaiho
Fujisawa Hosai | Fujisawa Hosai W+R 1975-09-25 | Fujisawa Hosai B+R 1975-10-30
Sakata Eio
Maeda Nobuaki | Hashimoto Shoji
Hashimoto Shoji
Segawa Yoshio | Ishii Shinzo | Shimamura Toshihiro W+1.5 1975-10-09
Ishii Shinzo
Shimamura Toshihiro | Shimamura Toshihiro B+R 1975-08-14
Kanno Kiyonori
Kobayashi Koichi | Kobayashi Koichi B+R 1975-09-18 | Kobayashi Koichi B+R 1975-10-16
Miyamoto Yoshihisa
Takagi Shoichi | Takagawa Shukaku W+R 1975-08-21
Takagawa Shukaku

## League

# | player | result | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1. | Kato Masao | 4-0 |  | W+R |  | W+R |
2. | Cho Chikun | 1-3 |  |  | B+R |  | W+R
3. | Shimamura Toshihiro | 2-2 | B+R |  |  | B+R |
4. | Kobayashi Koichi | 2-2 |  | W+R |  |  | B+R
5. | Fujisawa Hosai | 1-3 | B+3.5 |  | B+R |  |

(In the first column the white player, on the top row the black player.)

## 1st Gosei title

Since the Gosei title was the successor of the All-Japan 1st title, Otake Hideo was taken to be the current title holder.

date | black | white | result | #mv | sgf
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1976-03-25 | Otake Hideo | Kato Masao | W+1.5 | 233 | sgf
1976-04-12 | Kato Masao | Otake Hideo | W+R | 164 | sgf
1976-04-21 | Otake Hideo | Kato Masao | W+R | 208 | sgf
1976-05-04 | Kato Masao | Otake Hideo | W+4.5 | 251 | sgf
1976-05-18 | Kato Masao | Otake Hideo | B+R | 187 | sgf

Kato Masao won 3-2.