The Top Position tournament is decided in a best of five match with 10 hours thinking time per person and no komi except when the match would go all the way. The challenger comes from a league tournament where the games were also played without komi. The Top Position tournament ran for six times and then was replaced by the Meijin and Judan titles. In this overview only every first occurence of a player points to his biography to reduce the size and consequently the transmission time of this document. The Japanese Kido yearbooks and the Japanese Go Weekly magazine.
Transcriptions Used are the Japanese pronounciations for players and titles.
Please refer to the supplied dictionary for other languages.