The Yomiuri Shimbun which hosted the tournament brought a special bulletin showing a large go board to replicate the game to various locations, and advertised by including reviews of the match written by Kan KIKUCHI and Hekigoto KAWAHIGASHI, leading men of letters, thereby reportedly tripling the number of copy of the paper at once.
主催の読売新聞は各地で大盤を用いて速報し、観戦記に菊池寛、河東碧梧桐など有名文士を配して宣伝に努め、部数を一挙に3倍に伸ばしたといわれる。