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| In the game 4 of the 31st Kisei best-of-4 title match held on 2/23, Yamashita Keigo 9p defeated Kobayashi Satoru 9p by resignation and thus easily won the title by 4:0. The champion prize of Kisei is 42 million Yen. | 2007-02-24 | |
| In the game 1 of the 31st Kisei best-of-7 title match held on 1/18, the defending champion Yamashita Keigo 9p defeated Kobayashi Satoru 9p by resignation, taking 1:0 lead. The game 2 will take place on 1/31. | 2007-01-18 |  |
| In the 25th NEC Tournament final, Cho Sonjin 9p defeated Kobayashi Satoru 9p by 5.5 points. Cho Sonjin wins this champion for the first time and he also obtained 15 million Japanese Yen of champion prize, Kobayashi Satoru won 7.5 million Yen of second-place prize. | 2006-03-04 | |
| In the game 7 of the 30th Japanese Meijin Title match, Cho U 9p (White) defeated Kobayashi Satoru 9p by resignation and successfully defended his title by a total score of 4:3. Kobayashi Satoru won back 3 games after losing the first 3 games and tied the series at 3-3, but failed to obtain the title in the end. | 2005-11-10 | |
| In title match 2 of the 30th Japanese Meijin Title held on 9/22-9/23, Cho U 9p (White) defeated the challenger Kobayashi Satoru 9p by 6.5 points, taking 2:0 lead in best-of-7 series. The game 3 will take place on 9/28-9/29. | 2005-09-23 | |
| In the quarter-final (round 3) of 16th Fujitsu Cup, Yoda Norimoto 9p (White) defeated Yoo Changhyeok 9p by resignation, Lee Sedol 7p (White) overpowered Kobayashi Satoru 9p by 6.5 points, Song TaeKon 4p (White) edged Takao Shinji 8p by half point, Lee Changho 9p (Black) ousted O Rissei 9p by 4.5 points. Therefore Korean have obtained three out of four seats in the semi-final and maintain their domination in the world Go arena. The semi-final will take place on July 5th, Lee Changho will battle Song TaeKon, Lee Sedol fights Yoda Norimoto. | 2003-06-07 | |
| The Chinese whole army was destroyed after the 2nd round of 16th Fujitsu Cup, Korean and Japanese will contend for the championship, the 3rd round (quarter-final) battle will take place on 6/7: Lee Changho vs O Rissei, Lee Sedol vs Kobayashi Satoru, Yoo Changhyeok vs Yoda Norimoto, Song TaeKon vs Takao Shinji. | 2003-04-14 | |
| The 2nd round battle of 16th Fujitsu Cup will be held on 4/14: Wang Lei vs Yoda Norimoto, Gu Li vs Yoo Changhyeok, Lee Sedol vs Hane Naoki, Lee Changho vs John J-S Lee, Park YuongHoon vs Kobayashi Satoru, Song TaeKon vs O Meien, Cho Hunhyun vs O Rissei, Zhou Junxun vs Takao Shinji. | 2003-04-12 | |
| Chinese inflicted heavy losses and North American amateur became the dark horse, the 1st round 8-game result of 16th Fujitsu Cup: Yoda Norimoto defeated Chang Hao, Song TaeKon beat Zhou Heyang, Gu Li knocked out Cho Chikun, Kobayashi Satoru eliminated Huang Yizhong, Cho Hunhyun edged Kato Masao, Takao Shinji ousted Fernand Aguilar, Hane Naoki downed Choi MyungHoon and John J-S Lee overpowered Catalin Taranu. | 2003-04-12 | |
| The 1st round of the 16th Fujitsu Cup will kick off on 4/12, the following list are all 24 participants. China(5): Chang Hao, Wang Lei, Zhou Heyang, Gu Li, Huang Yizhong. Korea(7): Cho Hunhyun, Lee Changho, Yoo Changhyeok, Lee Sedol, Park YuongHoon, Choi MyungHoon and Song TaeKon. Japan(8): Cho Chikun, Yoda Norimoto, Hane Naoki, O Meien, O Rissei, Kato Masao, Takao Shinji and Kobayashi Satoru. Taiwan(1): Zhou Junxun. North America(1): John J-S Lee. South America(1): Fernand Aguilar. Europe(1): Catalin Taranu. | 2003-04-09 | |
| The Nihon Ki-in announced the winner list of 36th KIDO award (2002): Most Outstanding Player Award: Kato Masao 9p (Honinbo), Outstanding Player Award: O Rissei 9p (Kisei and Judan) and Cho U 7p, Most Wins Award: Cho U (70 wins), Winning Rate #1 Award: Cho U (83.3%, 70 wins and 14 losses), Consecutive Wins Award: Kobayashi Satoru 9p (17 straight wins), Most Games Played Award: Cho U (84 games), Women Award: Kobayashi Izumi 5p (Women Honinbo), New Pro Award: Kono Rin 6p, International Award: Hans Pietsch 6p. | 2003-01-20 | |
