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
Kobayashi Satoru (Kisei)	W+R				W+R	W+R		3
Cho Chikun (Challenger)		W+R	W+R	W+1.5			W+R	4