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| In the game 2 of the 13th Women Kisei best-of-3 title match held on 1/28, Shei Imin 4p defeated Umezawa Yukari 5p by resignation and won the title by 2:0. So far Shei Imin owned all three major women titles (Women Honinbo, Women Meijin and Women Kisei) and became the first three-champion women player in Japanese Go history. | 2010-01-28 | |
| In the decisive game 3 of the 10th Women Kisei title match held on 2/28, Umezawa Yukari 5p defeated Mannami Kana 3p by 12.5 points with 335 moves. Therefore Umezawa Yukari won the champion by 2:1, the first title of her Go career. The champion prize of Women Kisei is 5 million Yen. | 2007-03-01 | |
| On 12/8, in the 7th Japanese Women Saikyo final, Kobayashi Izumi 6p (White) defeated Konishi Kazuko 8p by 3.5 points, winning the champion of this event for the first time. So far, Kobayashi Izumi became the first women player to claim all four 'grand slam' women titles (Women Honinbo, Women Meijin, Women Kisei and Women Saikyo), and she has also obtained a total of 10 champions overall. | 2005-12-09 | |
| In the decisive game 3 of the 7th Japanese Women Kisei title match, Mannami Kana 2p took Black and defeated the defending champion Chinen Kaori 3p (four-time consecutive champion) by 12.5 points, thus Mannami Kana wins the first title in her professional career by 2:1. Women Kisei is a fast game, there is no regular time, the rule is one move per 30 seconds and 10 times 1 minute reserve time. | 2004-02-06 | |