Shogi Yearbook 2015

SHOGI24.COM SHOGI YEARBOOK 2015

Title match games, Challenger’s tournaments, interviews with WATANABE Akira and HIROSE Akihito, tournament reports, photos, Micro Shogi, statistics, … This yearbook is a free PDF document

Shogi Yearbook 2015 Content

Content

Content ...... 2 Just a few words ...... 5 64. Osho ...... 6 64. Osho league ...... 6 64th Osho title match ...... 9 Game 1 ...... 9 Game 2 ...... 12 Game 3 ...... 15 Game 4 ...... 18 Game 5 ...... 21 Game 6 ...... 23 Game 7 ...... 26 Summary ...... 28 40. Kio ...... 29 40. Kio Challenger’s tournament...... 29 Challenger’s finale ...... 29 39. Kio title match ...... 33 Game 1 ...... 33 Game 2 ...... 35 Game 3 ...... 37 Summary ...... 40 73th Meijin ...... 41 73th Meijin A-Class ...... 41 Play-off 1 ...... 41 Play-off 2 ...... 42 Play-off 3 ...... 45 73th Meijin title match ...... 49 Game 1 ...... 49 Game 2 ...... 51 Game 3 ...... 53 Game 4 ...... 56 Game 5 ...... 59 Summary ...... 63 86. Kisei ...... 64 86. Kisei challenger’s tournament ...... 64

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Challenger’s finale ...... 64 86. Kisei title match ...... 67 Game 1 ...... 67 Game 2 ...... 70 Game 3 ...... 73 Game 4 ...... 76 Summary ...... 78 56. Oi ...... 79 56. Oi challenger league ...... 79 Challenger’s finale ...... 79 56. Oi title match ...... 83 Game 1 ...... 83 Game 2 ...... 86 Game 3 ...... 89 Game 4 ...... 92 Game 5 ...... 94 Summary ...... 97 63. Oza ...... 98 63. Oza Challenger’s tournament ...... 98 Challenger’s finale ...... 98 63. Oza title match ...... 101 Game 1 ...... 101 Game 2 ...... 104 Game 3 ...... 107 Game 4 ...... 109 Game 5 ...... 111 Summary ...... 113 28. Ryu-O ...... 114 28. Ryu-O Challenger’s tournament ...... 114 Challenger’s finale / 3rd game ...... 114 27th Ryu-O title match ...... 117 Game 1 ...... 117 Game 2 ...... 120 Game 3 ...... 122 Game 4 ...... 125 Game 5 ...... 127 Summary ...... 130 Denou-sen Final: Time for revenge! ...... 131 Game 1 ...... 131

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Game 2 ...... 134 Game 3 ...... 136 Game 4 ...... 139 Game 5 ...... 141 Summary ...... 141 WOSC/ESC 2015 in Prague ...... 142 Shogifestival 2015 in Ludwigshafen/Germany ...... 145 A little bit chess, but not too much … ...... 152 Shogi variant – Micro Shogi ...... 154 Shogi24.com Player of the Year 2015/2016 ...... 155 Statistics ...... 156 Title match statistics ...... 156 Top 10 shogi24.com-rating …...... 156 Top 10 players who played the most games ...... 157 Top 10 players who gained the most wins ...... 157 Top 10 players who showed the highest winning percentage ...... 157 Top 10 players who made the longest straight wins ...... 158 Shogi - Schach der Samurai Einführung in das faszinierende japanische Schach ...... 159

Shogi Yearbook 2015 Just a few words ...

Just a few words ...

Dear shogi friends,

Let’s make it really short this time…

I want to thank WATANABE Akira and HIROSE Akihito for the interviews, Frank Rövekamp for the translation, Bernhard C. März for the permission of using his software 'BCM Games', Jan Mazuch and others for the permission of publishing their photos of the ESC/WOSC 2016 and MANABU Terao for the permission of using articles he published first in the forum of 81squareuniverse.

Ideas, photos, reports for next year’s edition? Feel free to send them to [email protected] .

Enjoy the game!

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

64. Osho

64. Osho league

The Osho league saw Habu and Goda with 4 wins and 2 losses at the top. The showdown was a playoff game to determine the challenger of title holder Watanabe.

Playoff 2014-12-25 Sente: HABU Yoshiharu Gote: GODA Masataka

1.P7g-7f 17.G5h-6g 2.P8c-8d 18.G6a-5b 3.S7i-6h 19.S6h-7g 4.P3c-3d 20.S4b-3c 5.P6g-6f 21.B8h-7i 6.S7a-6b 22.B2b-3a 7.P5g-5f 23.P3g-3f 8.P5c-5d 24.P4c-4d 9.S3i-4h 25.S4h-3g 10.S3a-4b 26.B3a-6d 11.G4i-5h 27.B7i-6h 12.G4a-3b 28.G5b-4c 13.G6i-7h 29.K6i-7i 14.K5a-4a 30.K4a-3a 15.K5i-6i

31.K7i-8h 16.P7c-7d 32.S6b-5c

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33.P1g-1f 65.B6fx7e 34.K3a-2b 66.P*7f 35.P1f-1e 67.S7gx7f 36.P9c-9d 68.S*6d 37.L1i-1f 69.B7e-3i 38.P9d-9e 70.S6ex7f 39.R2h-1h 71.G6gx7f 40.S3c-2d 72.S*6e 41.S3g-2f 73.G7f-7g 42.P4d-4e 74.P*7f 43.P3f-3e 75.G7g-6g 44.P3dx3e 45.S2fx3e

76.S6ex5f 77.G6gx7f 46.S2dx3e 78.S6d-6e 47.B6hx3e 79.G7f-7e 48.S5c-4d 80.P*7d 49.P6f-6e 81.G7ex6e 50.B6d-7c 82.S5fx6e 51.B3e-5g 83.S*7g 52.P8d-8e 84.P5e-5f 53.B5g-6f 85.N3g-2e 54.P*3d 86.P8e-8f 55.S*3f 87.P8gx8f 56.P5d-5e 88.P2c-2d 57.P7f-7e 89.P*3c 58.P7dx7e 90.N2ax3c 59.S3fx4e 60.S*7d

91.N2ex1c+ 92.L1ax1c 61.N2i-3g 93.P1e-1d 62.S7dx6e 94.L1cx1d 63.S4ex4d 95.L1fx1d 64.G4cx4d 96.N*7f

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

97.K8h-8g 108.G3bx2c 98.P*8h 109.+L1cx2c 99.L*8e 110.N7fx8h+ 100.R8b-4b 111.K8gx8h 101.G7hx8h 112.P*8g 102.G4d-5d 113.K8h-7i 103.L1d-1c+ 114.G*6i 104.K2b-3a 115.Resigns 105.S*2c

106.R4bx4g+ 107.P*4d

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64th Osho title match

Game 1 2015-01-11/12 Sente: WATANABE Akira, Osho Gote: GODA Masataka, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 30.K4a-3a 2.P8c-8d 3.P2g-2f 4.P8d-8e 5.B8h-7g 6.P3c-3d 7.S7i-8h 8.G4a-3b 9.G6i-7h 10.B2bx7g+ 11.S8hx7g 12.S3a-4b 13.S3i-3h 14.S7a-7b 15.P9g-9f

31.N2i-3g 32.P4c-4d 33.S4g-5f 34.P7c-7d 35.P6g-6f 36.S4b-3c 37.P2f-2e 38.G5b-4b 39.K7i-8h 40.K3a-2b 41.G5h-6h 42.N8a-7c 43.P4f-4e 44.B*4f 16.P9c-9d 45.B*2f 17.P4g-4f 18.P6c-6d 19.S3h-4g 20.S7b-6c 21.K5i-6h 22.S6c-5d 23.G4i-5h 24.G6a-5b 25.P3g-3f 26.K5a-4a 27.P1g-1f 28.P1c-1d 29.K6h-7i

46.P6d-6e 47.P4ex4d 48.P6ex6f 49.S7gx6f

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

50.P8e-8f 80.P*9f 51.P8gx8f 81.P*8g 52.P*8e 82.G7fx8g 53.P8fx8e 83.N7ix8g 54.P9d-9e 84.P9fx9g+ 55.P9fx9e 85.N8ix9g 56.N7cx8e 86.P*9f 57.P*8f 87.S*7g 58.P*6e 88.L*7f 59.S6f-5e 89.G*8e 60.S5dx5e 90.L7fx7g+

61.S5f-4g 91.G6hx7g 62.B4fx3g+ 92.R8f-7f 63.B2fx3g 93.G7gx7f 64.P5c-5d 94.N6dx7f 65.P5g-5f 95.P2e-2d 66.N*6d 96.S*6f 67.G7h-8g 97.P2dx2c+ 68.P7d-7e 98.G3bx2c 69.P7fx7e 99.B3g-4f 70.S*7f 100.G*6g 71.P5fx5e 101.K7h-6i 72.S7fx8g+ 102.P*2g 73.K8hx8g 103.R2hx2g 74.G*7f 104.S6f-5g 75.K8g-7h 105.R2gx2c+

76.N8e-9g 106.K2bx2c 77.L9ix9g 107.L*2i 78.R8bx8f 108.R*2d 79.N*7i 109.L2ix2d

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

110.S3cx2d 111.R*4c 112.G4bx4c 113.S*3b Standing after game 1: 114.Resigns Watanabe – Goda 1-0

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

30.G6a-5b Game 2

2015-01-22/23 Sente: GODA Masataka, Challenger Gote: WATANABE Akira, Osho

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2g-2f 4.G4a-3b 5.G6i-7h 6.P8d-8e 7.B8h-7g 8.P3c-3d 9.S7i-8h 31.N2i-3g 10.B2bx7g+ 32.K4b-3a 11.S8hx7g 33.S4g-5f 12.S3a-4b 34.P6d-6e 13.S3i-3h 35.K7i-8h 14.S7a-7b 36.K3a-2b 15.P4g-4f 37.G5h-4h 38.P4c-4d 39.R2h-2i 40.G5b-4b 41.R2i-6i 42.R8b-6b 43.R6i-5i 44.R6b-8b 45.R5i-2i

16.P6c-6d 17.S3h-4g 18.S7b-6c 19.K5i-6h 20.P9c-9d 21.P9g-9f 22.S6c-5d 23.G4i-5h 24.S4b-3c 46.G4b-5b 25.P1g-1f 47.P2f-2e 26.P1c-1d 48.G5b-4c 27.P3g-3f 49.R2i-6i 28.K5a-4b 50.R8b-6b 29.K6h-7i 51.R6i-5i 52.R6b-9b 53.S5f-4g 54.G4c-4b 55.S4g-5f 56.G4b-4c 57.R5i-2i

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58.R9b-8b 90.B*4d 59.R2i-6i 60.R8b-6b

91.K8h-7i 92.P6e-6f 61.R6i-5i 93.G4h-5h 62.R6b-9b 94.P8e-8f 63.G4h-3h 95.P8gx8f 64.R9b-8b 96.N8a-7c 65.G3h-4g 97.B*7d 66.R8b-6b 98.P*7f 67.R5i-5h 99.S7gx7f 68.R6b-9b 100.R8bx8f 69.R5h-3h 101.N4ex3c+ 70.R9b-7b 102.G4cx3c 71.R3h-4h 103.S*7g 72.R7b-9b 104.R8f-8d 73.P4f-4e 105.P4f-4e 74.R9b-8b 75.P4ex4d

106.P6fx6g+ 107.S7fx6g 76.S3cx4d 108.P*6f 77.R4h-2h 109.S6g-7f 78.S4d-3c 110.N*6g 79.G4g-4h 111.G5hx6g 80.G4c-4b 112.P6fx6g+ 81.R2h-2i 113.G7hx6g 82.G4b-4c 114.S5e-6f 83.S5f-4g 115.G6gx6f 84.S5d-5e 116.B4dx6f 85.P*4f 117.S7gx6f 86.P7c-7d 118.P*8h 87.N3g-4e 119.K7i-6h 88.P7d-7e 89.P7fx7e

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120.P8hx8i+ 150.G6gx6f

121.P*8e 151.S5ex6d 122.N7cx8e 152.P*4b 123.P2e-2d 153.S4g-3h 124.G*7g 154.S*4h 125.K6h-5h 155.B*8c 126.N*3g 156.S4hx5g 127.R2i-2h 157.Resigns 128.R8dx7d 129.P7ex7d 130.P2cx2d 131.P*2c 132.K2bx2c 133.P*2e 134.P2dx2e 135.P*2d

Standing after game 2: Watanabe – Goda 2-0

136.G3cx2d 137.S7fx8e 138.B*6g 139.K5h-4h 140.B6gx8e+ 141.K4hx3g 142.S*2f 143.K3g-4f 144.G7g-6g 145.R*6b 146.+B8ex7d 147.R6b-7b+ 148.+B7d-6d 149.S*5e

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Game 3

2015-01-29/30 Sente: WATANABE Akira, Osho Gote: GODA Masataka, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.S7i-6h 4.P3c-3d 5.P6g-6f 6.S7a-6b 7.P5g-5f 31.K7i-8h 8.P5c-5d 32.K3a-2b 9.S3i-4h 33.S3g-4f 10.S3a-4b 34.P4d-4e 11.G4i-5h 35.S4f-3g 12.G4a-3b 36.S6b-5c 13.G6i-7h 37.R2h-4h 14.K5a-4a 38.P9c-9d 15.K5i-6i 39.P4g-4f 40.P4ex4f 41.P9g-9f 42.S3c-4d 43.B6hx4f 44.N8a-7c 45.B4f-6h

16.P7c-7d 17.G5h-6g 18.G6a-5b 19.S6h-7g 20.S4b-3c 21.B8h-7i 22.B2b-3a 46.N7c-8e 23.P3g-3f 47.S7g-8f 24.P4c-4d 48.R8b-7b 25.S4h-3g 49.P1g-1f 26.B3a-6d 50.P*4e 27.B7i-6h 51.P1f-1e 28.G5b-4c 52.P5d-5e 29.K6i-7i 53.P5fx5e 30.K4a-3a 54.S4dx5e 55.R4hx4e 56.P*4f 57.S3gx4f 58.S5c-5d 59.S4fx5e 60.B6dx5e

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

61.B6h-4f 91.B5g-4h 62.B5e-3c 92.S5e-4d 63.R4e-2e 93.P3d-3c+ 64.S*2d 94.N2ax3c 65.R2e-2f 95.N2ex3c+ 66.S5d-5e 96.S4dx3c 67.B4f-5g 97.R2f-3f 68.S5e-6d 98.N*6d 69.S*4e 99.G7f-7e 70.P7d-7e 100.P*4d 71.P3f-3e 101.P*3d 72.P7ex7f 102.S3c-4b 73.P*7c 103.G7ex6d 74.R7b-4b 104.P4dx4e 75.P3ex3d 105.P7c-7b+

76.B3c-5e 106.R8bx7b 77.P*4f 107.G6dx6c 78.K2b-3a 108.R7b-9b 79.N2i-3g 109.P5c-5b+ 80.B5e-2b 110.S*4g 81.N3g-2e 111.+P5bx4b 82.R4b-5b 112.G4cx4b 83.P*5f 113.P*5d 84.P*5e 114.S4gx3f+ 85.P5fx5e 115.P5d-5c+ 86.S6dx5e 116.R*4i 87.P*5c 117.+P5cx4b 88.R5b-8b 118.G3bx4b 89.G6gx7f 119.G*5i 90.P*5f 120.R4ix1i+

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

121.P*5d 122.L*6a 123.G6c-5c 124.P5f-5g+ 125.N*3c Standing after game 3: 126.S2dx3c 127.P3dx3c+ Watanabe – Goda 2-1 128.G4bx3c 129.N*2e 130.P*7g 131.N8ix7g 132.N*7f 133.K8h-9h 134.+P5gx4h 135.S8fx8e

136.+R1ix5i 137.S8ex7f 138.P9d-9e 139.N2ex3c+ 140.G*9g 141.K9hx9g 142.+R5ix9i 143.S*9h 144.P9ex9f 145.K9g-8f 146.B*9g 147.Resigns

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Game 4

2015-02-16/17 Sente: GODA Masataka, Challenger Gote: WATANABE Akira, Osho

1.P2g-2f 2.P3c-3d 3.P7g-7f 4.R8b-4b 5.P2f-2e 6.K5a-6b 7.S3i-4h 8.K6b-7b 31.B7gx4d 9.K5i-6h 32.S3ex4d 10.K7b-8b 33.S8h-8g 11.K6h-7h 34.R2b-3b 12.S7a-7b 35.P*3f 13.G4i-5h 36.G4a-3a 14.B2bx8h+ 37.P2e-2d 15.S7ix8h 38.P2cx2d 39.R2hx2d 40.P*2b 41.R2d-2h 42.P*3e 43.P3fx3e 44.S4dx3e 45.P*2c

16.S3a-2b 17.P3g-3f 18.S2b-3c 19.P4g-4f 20.R4b-2b 21.S4h-4g 22.S3c-4d 23.P9g-9f 46.P2bx2c 24.P9c-9d 47.R2hx2c+ 25.P8g-8f 48.B*1d 26.P3d-3e 49.+R2c-2h 27.P3fx3e 50.P*2f 28.S4dx3e 51.B*6f 29.B*7g 52.P4c-4d 30.B*4d 53.P1g-1f 54.S3e-3f 55.S4gx3f 56.B1dx3f 57.+R2hx2f 58.B3fx5h+ 59.G6ix5h 60.R3b-3h+

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

61.B*4g 91.+P4a-5a 62.+R3h-3i 92.S6d-5e 63.S*6i 93.+P5ax6a 64.S*3e 94.G6bx6a 65.+R2f-2c 95.G*7e 66.S3ex4f 96.P6c-6d 67.B4g-6e 97.+R2b-3a 68.G*5e 98.N*4f 69.B6fx5e 99.G7ex6e 70.S4fx5e 100.P6dx6e 71.P*3b 101.+P4b-5b 72.P*2b 102.N4fx5h+ 73.+R2c-2g 103.+P5bx6a 74.G3a-4b 104.K8b-9b 75.P3b-3a+ 105.G*8b

76.S5e-6d 106.K9bx8b 77.B6ex2a+ 107.+R3a-4b 78.B*5e 108.L*7a 79.N*6f 109.+R4b-6b 80.B5ex1i+ 110.+N5hx6i 81.+R2gx2b 111.+R6bx7a 82.G4b-5b 112.K8b-9c 83.P*4c 113.B*8b 84.+B1ix2i 114.Resigns 85.P4c-4b+ 86.G5b-6b 87.G*7i 88.+B2i-6e 89.+P3a-4a 90.P*3b

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Standing after game 4: Watanabe – Goda 2-2

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Game 5

2015-03-12/13 Sente: WATANABE Akira, Osho Gote: GODA Masataka, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2g-2f 4.P8d-8e 5.B8h-7g 6.P3c-3d 7.S7i-8h 31.S4g-5f 8.G4a-3b 32.K4a-3a 9.G6i-7h 33.K6h-7i 10.B2bx7g+ 34.P7c-7d 11.S8hx7g 35.P6g-6f 12.S3a-4b 36.S4b-3c 13.S3i-3h 37.R2h-4h 14.S7a-7b 38.G5b-4b 15.P9g-9f 39.K7i-8h 40.K3a-2b 41.P2f-2e 42.P6d-6e 43.B*6d 44.R8b-9b 45.P4f-4e

16.P1c-1d 17.P1g-1f 18.P9c-9d 19.P4g-4f 20.P6c-6d 21.S3h-4g 22.S7b-6c 46.P4dx4e 23.K5i-6h 47.N3gx4e 24.K5a-4a 48.S3c-4d 25.P3g-3f 49.P6fx6e 26.G6a-5b 50.P*6c 27.G4i-5h 51.B6d-4f 28.S6c-5d 52.P7d-7e 29.N2i-3g 53.P7fx7e 30.P4c-4d 54.B*2g 55.G5h-4g 56.S4dx4e 57.S5fx4e 58.S5dx4e 59.B4f-5e 60.N2a-3c

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

61.S*8c 91.R8bx4b+ 62.S4e-5d 92.R5ix8i+ 63.S8cx9b 93.K9hx8i 64.S5dx5e 94.N6f-7h+ 65.S9bx8a+ 95.K8i-9h 66.B*5i 96.G*8h 67.N*2f 97.K9h-9g 68.G4b-4c 98.Resigns 69.R*8b 70.B5ix4h+ 71.G4gx4h 72.B2gx3f+ 73.B*5b 74.P*4b 75.N2fx3d

Standing after game 5: 76.G4cx3d Watanabe – Goda 3-2 77.B5bx3d+ 78.S*4c 79.+B3d-6g 80.+B3f-4e 81.+B6gx4e 82.N3cx4e 83.+S8ax9a 84.N*6f 85.G7h-6h 86.R*5i 87.L*3f 88.N*7f 89.K8h-9h 90.N7fx6h+

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Game 6

2015-03-19/20 Sente: GODA Masataka, Challenger Gote: WATANABE Akira, Osho

1.P2g-2f 2.P8c-8d 3.P7g-7f 4.G4a-3b 5.G6i-7h 6.P8d-8e 7.B8h-7g 8.P3c-3d 31.N2i-3g 9.S7i-8h 32.P4c-4d 10.B2bx7g+ 33.S4g-5f 11.S8hx7g 34.P7c-7d 12.S3a-4b 35.P6g-6f 13.S3i-3h 36.S4b-3c 14.S7a-7b 37.R2h-4h 15.P4g-4f 38.G5b-4b 39.K7i-8h 40.K3a-2b 41.P2f-2e 42.P6d-6e 43.B*6d 44.R8b-9b 45.P4f-4e

16.P6c-6d 17.S3h-4g 18.S7b-6c 19.K5i-6h 20.K5a-4a 21.P1g-1f 22.P1c-1d 23.P9g-9f 46.P4dx4e 24.P9c-9d 47.N3gx4e 25.P3g-3f 48.S3c-4d 26.G6a-5b 49.P6fx6e 27.K6h-7i 50.G3b-4c 28.S6c-5d 51.P2e-2d 29.G4i-5h 52.P2cx2d 30.K4a-3a 53.P*2e 54.P2dx2e 55.P*2d 56.P*6c 57.B6d-4f 58.K2b-3b 59.P1f-1e 60.P1dx1e

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

61.P6e-6d 91.L*9e 62.P6cx6d 92.S6cx6d 63.B4fx6d 93.L9ex9c 64.P2e-2f 94.N*6e 65.P9f-9e 95.S5fx6e 66.P2f-2g+ 96.S6dx6e 67.P9ex9d 97.P2dx2c+ 68.P*2c 98.K3bx2c 69.R4h-4i 99.P*2d 70.P*9f 100.K2c-1d 71.L9ix9f 101.R*2b 72.P*9e 102.B*9i 73.L9fx9e 103.K8h-7h 74.B*8d 104.B9ix7g+ 75.P9d-9c+ 105.N8ix7g

76.N8ax9c 106.G*3a 77.P*9d 107.R2b-2c+ 78.B8dx9e 108.K1d-2e 79.P9dx9c+ 109.P*1b 80.R9bx9c 110.S*1d 81.P*9f 111.+R2cx1d 82.B9ex7g+ 112.K2ex1d 83.G7hx7g 113.N7gx6e 84.P*9g 114.R*9h 85.N*5e 115.K7h-7g 86.P*4h 116.S*3g 87.R4ix4h 117.S*2c 88.L*6c 118.K1d-2e 89.N5ex6c+ 119.B*1d 90.S5dx6c 120.K2e-2f

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

150.Resigns

121.B*5i 122.P*2e 123.N4ex5c+ 124.S4dx5c 125.N6ex5c+ 126.S3gx4h+ Standing after game 6: 127.B5ix4h Watanabe – Goda 3-3 128.N*3g 129.N*3h 130.+P2gx3h 131.S*4g 132.R*1g 133.S*1h 134.R1gx1h+ 135.L1ix1h

136.P*6e 137.P*6f 138.S*6i 139.S*1g 140.K2f-2g 141.S4gx3h 142.K2gx1h 143.G5h-6h 144.N*4f 145.S3h-2i 146.K1hx2i 147.R*2h 148.K2i-1i 149.+N5cx4c

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

Game 7

2015-03-26/27 Sente: GODA Masataka, Challenger Gote: WATANABE Akira, Osho

1.P2g-2f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2f-2e 4.P8d-8e 5.G6i-7h 6.G4a-3b 7.P2e-2d 8.P2cx2d 9.R2hx2d 31.B8hx3c+ 10.P*2c 32.S2bx3c 11.R2d-2h 33.S7i-8h 12.P9c-9d 34.G6a-5a 13.P9g-9f 35.K5i-6h 14.P3c-3d 36.P7c-7d 15.S3i-3h 37.S3f-4e 38.N8a-7c 39.G4i-5h 40.P5c-5d 41.S8h-7g 42.P5d-5e 43.B*6f 44.P7d-7e 45.B6fx5e

16.S7a-6b 17.S3h-2g 18.P8e-8f 19.P8gx8f 20.R8bx8f 21.P*8g 22.R8f-8d 23.S2g-3f 24.B2b-3c 46.G5a-4b 25.P1g-1f 47.S7g-8f 26.P1c-1d 48.P7ex7f 27.P7g-7f 49.P1f-1e 28.K5a-4a 50.P1dx1e 29.P4g-4f 51.P*1c 30.S3a-2b 52.L1ax1c 53.P*1b 54.B*5c 55.P1b-1a+ 56.B5cx8f 57.P8gx8f 58.R8dx8f 59.B*8g 60.R8f-8e

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

85.+S6cx6b 86.G3b-4c 87.G4g-5f 88.+B6f-6g 89.N*5e 90.K4a-3b

61.B5e-6f 62.N7c-6e 63.+P1ax2a 64.S*7g 65.K6h-5i 66.S7gx6f+ 67.P6gx6f 91.N5ex4c+ 68.B*3i 92.K3bx2a 69.R2h-3h 93.+N4cx4b 70.B3ix5g+ 94.S3cx4b 71.N*5d 95.S*4a 72.S6b-5c 96.S4b-3a 73.P6fx6e 97.G*3c 74.+B5g-6f 98.R8dx8g+ 75.S*7d 99.S4a-3b+ 100.Resigns

76.R8e-8d 77.S7dx6c+ 78.P*5g 79.G5h-4g 80.P*6b 81.N5dx6b+ 82.P4c-4d Finale standing: 83.P*5d Watanabe – Goda 3-4 84.S5cx6b

Shogi Yearbook 2015 64. Osho

Summary

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

40. Kio

40. Kio Challenger’s tournament

Habu has been Kio title holder in 2005, so he surely wanted to regain the title after 10 years. But in the challenger’s finale he had to beat Fukaura before.

17.P4g-4f Challenger’s finale 18.P6c-6d 19.S3h-4g 2014-12-22 20.S7b-6c Sente: HABU Yoshiharu 21.K5i-6h 22.S6c-5d Gote: FUKAURA Hiroyuki 23.S4g-5f 24.P4c-4d 1.P7g-7f 25.G4i-5h 2.P8c-8d 26.G6a-5b 3.P2g-2f 27.P3g-3f 4.G4a-3b 28.K5a-4a 5.G6i-7h 29.K6h-7i 6.P8d-8e 30.K4a-3a 7.B8h-7g 8.P3c-3d 9.S7i-8h 10.B2bx7g+ 11.S8hx7g 12.S3a-4b 13.S3i-3h 14.S7a-7b 15.P9g-9f

31.P1g-1f 32.P1c-1d 33.N2i-3g 34.S4b-3c 35.R2h-4h 36.G5b-4c 37.K7i-8h 38.K3a-2b 39.P6g-6f 16.P9c-9d 40.G4c-4b

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

41.G5h-6h 73.R2h-2i 42.S3c-2d 74.N2ax1c 43.P2f-2e 75.P2e-2d 44.S2d-3c 45.G6h-5h

76.P2cx2d 77.S*3d 46.L1a-1b 78.B3g-5e+ 47.R4h-2h 79.P*4c 48.K2b-1a 80.G4bx4c 49.P4f-4e 81.S3dx4c+ 50.P4dx4e 82.G3bx4c 51.P3f-3e 83.S4e-5f 52.P9d-9e 84.+B5e-5d 53.P9fx9e 85.B*2c 54.P*9g 86.K1a-2b 55.P1f-1e 87.B2cx1d+ 56.P1dx1e 88.S*2c 57.L9ix9g 89.+B1d-4g 58.P3dx3e 90.N1c-2e 59.N3gx4e 60.S5dx4e

91.L*4f 92.P*4d 61.S5fx4e 93.L1ix1e 62.P*9f 94.P*1d 63.L9gx9f 95.P*4e 64.N*8d 96.P8e-8f 65.P*1c 97.P8gx8f 66.L1bx1c 98.P*8e 67.P*1d 99.G*8g 68.L1cx1d 100.P8ex8f 69.P*1c 101.S7gx8f 70.N8dx9f 102.P*8e 71.K8h-9h 103.S8f-7g 72.B*3g 104.L*8c

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

105.G8gx9f

136.G4d-3d 106.P8e-8f 137.L*5e 107.P*8e 138.+B5d-3f 108.L8cx8e 139.L4hx4c+ 109.P*8c 140.P2d-2e 110.R8bx8c 141.P*2d 111.N*7i 142.S2cx2d 112.N2e-3g+ 143.G5h-4g 113.+B4gx3g 144.+B3f-1h 114.P1dx1e 145.R2i-4i 115.P4ex4d 146.N*8d 116.S3cx4d 147.G4g-4f 117.L4fx4d 148.P*4g 118.L*8d 149.G9fx8e 119.P*8h 150.P*9g 120.G4cx4d

151.N8ix9g 121.+B3gx1e 152.P*9f 122.P*1d 153.S7gx8f 123.+B1e-1f 154.P9fx9g+ 124.P*4c 155.S8fx9g 125.N*7e 156.P*9f 126.R8c-8b 157.S9g-8f 127.S*7a 158.P1d-1e 128.R8b-7b 159.+B1f-3h 129.N7e-8c+ 160.N*7d 130.R7bx7a 161.K9h-8g 131.+N8cx8d 162.S*5h 132.L*8b 163.R4i-3i 133.+N8dx8e 164.N7dx8f 134.L8bx8e 165.K8gx8f 135.L*4h

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

166.P9f-9g+ 167.G8ex8d 168.P*8e 169.K8f-7g 170.S*2g 171.+B3hx4g 172.S5hx4g+ 173.G4fx4g 174.K2b-1c 175.N*4f 176.S2g-2h+ 177.N4fx3d 178.K1c-1d 179.N3d-2b+ 180.P1e-1f

181.L*1i 182.+S2hx1i 183.G4g-3g 184.K1d-1e 185.N*2g 186.Resigns

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

39. Kio title match

Game 1

2015-02-11 Sente: WATANABE Akira, Kio Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P2g-2f

4.P8c-8d 31.G4i-3h 5.P2f-2e 32.P1c-1d 6.P8d-8e 33.P1g-1f 7.G6i-7h 34.S2b-2c 8.G4a-3b 35.S3g-4f 9.P2e-2d 36.P*2d 10.P2cx2d 37.N2i-3g 11.R2hx2d 38.P*8f 12.P8e-8f 39.P8gx8f 13.P8gx8f 40.R8dx8f 14.R8bx8f 41.R2f-2i 15.R2dx3d 42.R8fx7f 43.B8h-7g 44.P1d-1e 45.P1fx1e

16.B2b-3c 17.R3d-3f 18.R8f-8d

19.R3f-2f 46.P*1g 20.S3a-2b 47.L1ix1g 21.P*8g 48.B3cx7g+ 22.K5a-5b 49.G7hx7g 23.K5i-5h 50.R7f-7d 24.G6a-5a 51.B*5f 25.S3i-3h 52.R7d-8d 26.S7a-6b 53.P*8e 27.P3g-3f 54.R8dx8e 28.P9c-9d 55.P*8f 29.S3h-3g 56.R8e-8d 30.P9d-9e 57.P1e-1d 58.P*1b 59.R2i-1i 60.P5c-5d

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

61.R1i-2i 91.B5f-8c+ 62.N2a-3c 92.N*2g 63.K5h-6h 93.P*3c 64.N8a-9c 94.G3b-3a 65.P*2e 95.R1i-1f 66.P2dx2e 96.+B3f-2e 67.N3gx2e 97.+L1c-2b 68.N3cx2e 98.+B2ex1f 69.R2ix2e 99.+L2bx3a 70.P*2d 100.N2gx3i+ 71.R2e-2i 101.+B8cx9d 72.P5d-5e 102.G*8g 73.S4fx5e 103.R*2b 74.B*1h 104.Resigns 75.R2i-1i

76.B1hx3f+ 77.P1d-1c+ 78.P1bx1c Standing after game 1 79.L1gx1c+ Watanabe – Habu 1-0 80.P*3g 81.G3h-3i

82.S2c-3d 83.N*7f 84.R8d-7d 85.P*7e 86.R7dx7e 87.G7g-6f 88.R7e-7d 89.P*7e 90.R7d-9d

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

Game 2

2015-02-21 Sente: HABU Yoshiharu, Challenger Gote: WATANABE Akira, Kio

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.S7i-6h 4.P3c-3d 5.P6g-6f 6.S7a-6b 7.P5g-5f 31.K7i-8h 8.P5c-5d 32.K3a-2b 9.S3i-4h 33.P1g-1f 10.S3a-4b 34.P8d-8e 11.G4i-5h 35.S3g-4f 12.G4a-3b 36.P4d-4e 13.G6i-7h 37.S4f-3g 14.K5a-4a 38.S6b-5c 15.K5i-6i 39.R2h-4h 40.S5c-4d 41.P1f-1e 42.R8b-5b 43.P4g-4f 44.P4ex4f 45.S3gx4f

16.P7c-7d 17.G5h-6g 18.G6a-5b 19.S6h-7g 20.S4b-3c 21.B8h-7i 22.B2b-3a 46.P*4e 23.P3g-3f 47.S4fx4e 24.P4c-4d 48.B6dx1i+ 25.S4h-3g 49.S4ex4d 26.B3a-6d 50.S3cx4d 27.B7i-6h 51.S*4a 28.G5b-4c 52.R5b-4b 29.K6i-7i 53.S4ax3b+ 30.K4a-3a 54.K2bx3b 55.P*4e 56.S4d-3c 57.B6h-4f 58.+B1ix4f 59.R4hx4f 60.B*2d

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

61.P3f-3e 91.B*5b 62.B2dx3e 92.K4c-3c 63.R4f-3f 93.B5bx6c+ 64.S*6i 94.N*5e 65.G*6h 95.P5fx5e 66.S6ix7h+ 96.G*5g 67.K8hx7h 97.Resigns 68.P*4f 69.G6g-5g 70.S*4g 71.R3f-1f 72.S4g-3h 73.G5gx4f 74.S3hx2g 75.G4fx3e

Standing after game 2 Watanabe – Habu 2-0

76.S2gx1f 77.P4e-4d 78.G4cx4d 79.S*5c 80.G4dx3e 81.S5cx4b+ 82.S3cx4b 83.P*4c 84.K3bx4c 85.R*8b 86.R*4i 87.B*6g 88.R4ix2i+ 89.P*4i 90.+R2i-2h

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

Game 3

2015-03-08 Sente: WATANABE Akira, Kio Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2g-2f 4.G4a-3b 5.G6i-7h 31.K6h-7i 6.P8d-8e 32.K4a-3a 7.B8h-7g 33.N2i-3g 8.P3c-3d 34.P7c-7d 9.S7i-8h 35.P6g-6f 10.B2bx7g+ 36.S4b-3c 11.S8hx7g 37.R2h-4h 12.S3a-4b 38.G5b-4b 13.S3i-3h 39.K7i-8h 14.S7a-7b 40.K3a-2b 15.P9g-9f 41.P2f-2e 42.P6d-6e 43.B*6d 44.R8b-9b 45.P4f-4e

16.P9c-9d 17.P4g-4f 18.P6c-6d 19.S3h-4g 20.S7b-6c 46.P4dx4e 21.K5i-6h 47.N3gx4e 22.P1c-1d 48.S3c-4d 23.P1g-1f 49.P6fx6e 24.S6c-5d 50.P7d-7e 25.S4g-5f 51.B6dx7e 26.P4c-4d 52.B*3g 27.G4i-5h 53.R4h-4i 28.G6a-5b 54.B3g-2h+ 29.P3g-3f 55.B7e-6f 30.K5a-4a 56.G3b-4c 57.P3f-3e 58.P3dx3e 59.G5h-4g 60.P8e-8f

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

61.P8gx8f 91.P*5g 62.N8a-7c 92.+B5fx6f 63.G4g-4f 93.+R1ax1b 64.K2b-3b 94.+B6f-6g 65.P2e-2d 95.S*5f 66.P*8g 96.+B6gx5g 67.G7hx8g 97.P*5b 68.P2cx2d 98.+B5gx5f 69.P*2b 99.G*3a 70.P*4h 100.K4ax5b 71.R4ix4h 101.+R1bx3b 72.+B2h-3g 102.K5b-6a 73.R4h-4i 103.L*8b 74.P*4h 104.B*7i 75.R4i-2i 105.K8h-9h

76.+B3gx4f 106.R9bx8b 77.P2bx2a+ 107.+R3bx8b 78.S5dx4e 108.Resigns 79.R2ix2d 80.S4ex5f 81.R2d-2b+ 82.K3b-4a 83.N*5h 84.+B4f-4e 85.P5gx5f 86.+B4ex5f 87.P6e-6d 88.G4b-3b 89.+R2bx1a 90.G*1b

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

Finale standing Watanabe – Habu 3-0

Shogi Yearbook 2015 40. Kio

Summary

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

73th Meijin

73th Meijin A-Class

It was a very exciting A-Class where in the end four players shared the lead with 6 wins an 3 losses: Namekata, Watanabe, Kubo and Hirose. These four players had to play a play-off to determine the challenger of Meijin Habu.

Play-off 1

2015-03-05 Sente: HIROSE Akihito Gote: KUBO Toshiaki

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P2g-2f 4.P5c-5d 5.P2f-2e 6.R8b-5b 7.G4i-5h 8.P5d-5e 9.P2e-2d 10.P2cx2d 11.R2hx2d 12.P5e-5f 13.P5gx5f 14.B2bx8h+ 15.S7ix8h 16.B*3c 17.R2dx2a+ 18.B3cx8h+ 19.N*5e 20.K5a-6b

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

21.+R2ax1a 46.S5dx5e 22.S*5d 47.S*5d 23.B*7e 48.N*6e 24.P*2a 49.+R2cx4c 25.+R1ax2a 50.K6b-7b 26.S3a-3b 51.L*7f 27.+R2a-1b 52.B*5b 28.+B8hx8i 53.+R4c-2c 29.P*2c 54.N6ex5g+ 30.+B8ix9i 55.G6hx5g 56.S5e-4d 57.N*5e 58.S4dx5e 59.P5fx5e 60.P*5f

31.P2c-2b+ 32.+B9i-7g 33.G6i-6h 34.+B7gx7f 35.B7e-6f 36.L*6d 61.G5gx5f 37.P*7g 62.L6dx6g+ 38.+B7f-9d 63.K5i-4h 39.B6f-5g 64.N*6d 40.N*4e 65.K4h-3h 41.+P2bx3b 66.+B9dx7f 42.N4ex5g+ 67.P7gx7f 43.G5hx5g 68.L*2b 44.R5bx3b 69.Resigns 45.+R1b-2c

Play-off 2

2015-03-10

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

Sente: KUBO Toshiaki Gote: WATANABE Akira

1.P5g-5f 2.P8c-8d 3.P7g-7f 4.P8d-8e 5.B8h-7g 6.P5c-5d 7.R2h-8h 8.P3c-3d 9.S7i-6h 10.K5a-4b 11.K5i-4h 12.K4b-3b 13.K4h-3h 14.S7a-6b 15.K3h-2h 31.S3h-2g 32.S5c-4d 33.G4i-3h 34.B2b-3a 35.S5g-4f 36.S4d-3c 37.P5f-5e 38.P5dx5e 39.S4fx5e 40.G5b-5c 41.P*5d 42.G5c-4d 43.S5ex4d 44.S3cx4d 45.G7h-6g 16.S6b-5c 17.P1g-1f 18.P1c-1d 19.S3i-3h 20.G6a-5b 21.G6i-7h 22.P7c-7d 23.S6h-5g 24.P6c-6d 25.P9g-9f 26.P2c-2d 27.P6g-6f 28.K3b-2c 29.P2g-2f 30.S3a-3b 46.R8b-5b 47.R8h-5h 48.P*5e 49.R5h-5i 50.R5bx5d 51.B7g-9e 52.G4a-5b 53.P7f-7e 54.P7dx7e 55.R5i-7i 56.P6d-6e 57.P6fx6e 58.P5e-5f 59.G*6d

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

60.B3ax6d

91.B6h-4f 61.P6ex6d 92.P4d-4e 62.P5f-5g+ 93.B4f-3g 63.B*7b 94.G*5b 64.R5dx6d 95.S*8c 65.G6gx5g 96.R7d-8d 66.P9c-9d 97.P*7d 67.B9e-7g 98.P*6d 68.S*6h 99.P7dx7c+ 69.P*6e 100.G6cx7c 70.R6d-6b 101.B3g-5e 71.B7gx6h 102.B8hx5e+ 72.R6bx7b 103.R5ix5e 73.P6e-6d 104.B*6f 74.R7b-7d 105.B*4d 75.P6d-6c+

76.G5bx6c 106.S3b-3c 77.G5g-6f 107.R5ex5c+ 78.N8a-7c 108.G5bx5c 79.R7i-5i 109.B4dx6f 80.P*5c 110.R8dx8c 81.B6h-4f 111.P*5d 82.B*8h 112.G5c-5b 83.G6f-5e 113.S*5c 84.S4d-3e 114.P*5a 85.B4f-6h 115.N2i-3g 86.G*4a 116.R*6i 87.P3g-3f 117.B*5e 88.S3e-4d 118.G5b-4c 89.G5ex4d 119.N3gx4e 90.P4cx4d 120.P6d-6e

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

121.N4ex3c+ 122.N2ax3c 123.S*4d 124.Resigns

Play-off 3

2015-03-16 Sente: KUBO Toshiaki Gote: NAMEKATA Hisashi

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P7f-7e 4.P1c-1d 5.P1g-1f 6.P5c-5d 7.P6g-6f 16.P2d-2e 8.B2b-4d 17.S3i-2h 9.R2h-7h 18.G4a-5b 10.R8b-2b 19.G6i-5h 11.S7i-6h 20.N2a-3c 12.S3a-4b 21.K4h-3h 13.S6h-6g 22.K5a-6b 14.P2c-2d 23.P6f-6e 15.K5i-4h 24.P2e-2f 25.P2gx2f 26.R2bx2f

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

27.P*2g 59.P9f-9e 28.R2f-2e 60.P9dx9e 29.B8hx4d 30.P4cx4d

61.P*9c 62.L9ax9c 31.N8i-7g 63.N7g-8e 32.P4d-4e 64.L9c-9d 33.B*6f 65.L9ix9e 34.S7a-7b 66.L9dx9e 35.P9g-9f 67.P*7c 36.P3d-3e 68.S7bx7c 37.G4i-4h 69.N8ex7c+ 38.P9c-9d 70.K8bx7c 39.P8g-8f 71.S*9b 40.P1d-1e 72.G6a-7b 41.P1fx1e 73.S9bx8a+ 42.P*1f 74.L*8d 43.P8f-8e 75.N*8e 44.K6b-7a 45.R7h-8h

76.K7c-6b 77.B6f-5g 46.R2ex1e 78.R2d-2a 47.P*1h 79.B5gx3e 48.R1e-1d 80.B*5c 49.P8e-8d 81.B3ex5c+ 50.P8cx8d 82.K6bx5c 51.R8hx8d 83.P*7c 52.P*8c 84.G7b-6b 53.R8d-8f 85.R8f-7f 54.K7a-8b 86.R2ax8a 55.P5g-5f 87.R7fx7d 56.R1d-2d 88.N*8b 57.P7e-7d 89.R7d-7h 58.P7cx7d 90.P*7g

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

91.R7hx7g 121.B5g-6f 92.B*9i 122.+B4dx6f 93.R7g-7f 123.S6gx6f 94.P*7e 124.R*6i 95.R7fx7e 125.P2d-2c+ 96.P*7d 126.S3dx2c 97.N8e-9c 127.R*2a 98.R8a-9a 128.S2c-3d 99.N9c-8a+ 129.B*7e 100.P7dx7e 130.P*2f 101.+N8ax9a 131.G4h-4i 102.P7e-7f 132.N8b-7d 103.P7c-7b+ 133.S6f-5g 104.G6bx7b 134.+L8gx7h 105.P*7h 135.G4i-5i

106.P*2f 136.R6ix6e+ 107.P2gx2f 137.B7e-9c+ 108.P*2e 138.P7f-7g+ 109.B*3e 139.P*6f 110.K5c-4c 140.+R6e-8e 111.P2fx2e 141.P*7c 112.S*3d 142.G7b-6b 113.B3e-5g 143.P*2d 114.B9i-4d+ 144.+P7g-6g 115.R*2a 145.G5hx6g 116.R*5a 146.+R8e-8i 117.R2ax5a+ 147.G5i-4i 118.G5bx5a 148.B*8e 119.P2e-2d 149.G4i-5h 120.L8d-8g+ 150.P2f-2g+ 151.Resigns

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

73th Meijin title match

Game 1

2015-04-08/09 Sente: NAMEKATA Hisashi, Challenger Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Meijin

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.S7i-6h 4.P3c-3d 5.P6g-6f 6.S7a-6b 7.P5g-5f 8.P5c-5d 9.S3i-4h 31.P3f-3e 10.S3a-4b 32.P3dx3e 11.G4i-5h 33.P6f-6e 12.G4a-3b 34.B6d-4b 13.G5h-6g 35.B7ix3e 14.K5a-4a 36.P6c-6d 15.P2g-2f 37.P6ex6d 38.P8d-8e 39.R2h-6h 40.G3b-4c 41.G6g-7f 42.P5d-5e 43.P5fx5e 44.S3c-3d 45.B3e-5g

16.P7c-7d 17.S6h-7g 18.G6a-5b 19.B8h-7i 20.S4b-3c 21.P3g-3f 22.B2b-3a 23.S4h-3g 24.P4c-4d 46.G4c-5c 25.K5i-6h 47.S3g-4f 26.P7d-7e 48.P4d-4e 27.P7fx7e 49.P5e-5d 28.B3ax7e 50.G5cx6d 29.K6h-7h 51.B5g-6f 30.B7e-6d 52.P*3c 53.S4f-5e 54.P*7e 55.S5ex6d

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

56.P7ex7f 57.S7gx7f 58.B4bx6d 59.B6f-4d 60.S3d-4c 61.Resigns

Standing after game 1 Habu - Namekata 1-0

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

Game 2

2015-04-22/23 Sente: HABU Yoshiharu, Meijin Gote: NAMEKATA Hisashi, Challenger

1.P2g-2f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2f-2e 4.P8d-8e 5.G6i-7h 6.G4a-3b 7.S3i-3h 8.S7a-7b 9.P9g-9f 31.P7f-7e 10.P8e-8f 32.S7d-8c 11.P8gx8f 33.S7i-6h 12.R8bx8f 34.K5a-4a 13.P*8g 35.S6h-7g 14.R8f-8b 36.P2c-2d 15.P7g-7f 37.S7g-7f 38.G3c-2c 39.N8i-7g 40.P9c-9d 41.B9g-8h 42.K4a-3b 43.P8g-8f 44.R8b-7b 45.P8f-8e

16.S7b-8c 17.P1g-1f 18.S8c-7d 19.P2e-2d 20.P2cx2d 21.R2hx2d 22.P*2c 23.R2d-2f 24.P1c-1d 46.P7c-7d 25.K5i-5h 47.P7ex7d 26.P3c-3d 48.S8cx7d 27.R2f-3f 49.P8e-8d 28.G3b-3c 50.P*7e 29.B8h-9g 51.S7f-6e 30.S3a-4b 52.P6c-6d 53.P*7c 54.R7bx7c 55.S6ex6d 56.P*8g 57.G7hx8g 58.R7c-9c 59.R3f-5f 60.P5c-5d

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

61.P*7f 91.N2ix3g 62.P*8f 92.N4ex3g+ 63.G8gx8f 93.G*5h 64.S7d-6e 94.+B6gx5g 65.R5f-4f 95.Resigns 66.P7ex7f 67.G8fx7f 68.S6ex7f 69.R4fx7f 70.P*6c 71.S*7b 72.P6cx6d 73.S7bx6a 74.S*8g 75.R7f-7a+

Standing after game 2 Habu – Namekata 1-1

76.R9c-7c 77.S6a-7b+ 78.R7c-7f 79.G*8i 80.R7fx7g+ 81.B8hx7g 82.B2bx7g+ 83.+S7b-6b 84.B*7f 85.K5h-4h 86.+B7gx6g 87.P3g-3f 88.N*4e 89.K4h-3i 90.G*3g

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

Game 3

2015-05-07/08 Sente: NAMEKATA Hisashi, Challenger Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Meijin

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2g-2f 4.G4a-3b 5.G6i-7h 6.P8d-8e 7.B8h-7g 8.P3c-3d 31.K6h-7i 9.S7i-8h 32.K4a-3a 10.B2bx7g+ 33.N2i-3g 11.S8hx7g 34.P7c-7d 12.S3a-4b 35.P6g-6f 13.S3i-3h 36.S4b-3c 14.S7a-7b 37.R2h-4h 15.P9g-9f 38.G5b-4b 39.K7i-8h 40.K3a-2b 41.G5h-6h 42.S3c-2d 43.P4f-4e 44.P4dx4e 45.S5fx4e

16.P9c-9d 17.P4g-4f 18.P6c-6d 19.S3h-4g 20.S7b-6c 21.K5i-6h 22.S6c-5d 23.S4g-5f 46.B*5i 24.P4c-4d 47.R4h-3h 25.G4i-5h 48.S5dx4e 26.G6a-5b 49.N3gx4e 27.P3g-3f 50.S*4d 28.K5a-4a 51.P2f-2e 29.P1g-1f 52.S2dx2e 30.P1c-1d 53.B*6c 54.P*4g 55.G6h-5h 56.B5i-2f+ 57.G5hx4g 58.+B2f-2g 59.R3h-4h 60.P*4f

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

61.G4gx4f 91.P*2e 62.+B2g-3g 92.P2dx2e 63.R4h-4i 93.P*2d 64.P9d-9e 94.K2cx2d 65.P9fx9e 95.S*7f 66.P7d-7e 96.R6ix8i+ 67.P7fx7e 97.S*7a 68.L9ax9e 98.S*6i 69.L9ix9e 99.G5h-6h 70.P*4h 100.G*8f 71.R4i-2i 101.P8gx8f 72.+B3gx4f 102.+R8ix8f 73.R2ix2e 103.K7g-6g 74.+B4fx3f 104.N*5e 75.P*4c 105.K6g-5f

76.+B3fx2e 106.+R8fx7f 77.P4cx4b+ 107.S7ax8b 78.G3bx4b 108.S*4g 79.L*2g 109.K5f-4f 80.+B2e-5h 110.+R7fx6f 81.G*6h 111.K4f-3g 82.P*7f 112.S4g-3f 83.G6hx5h 113.K3g-2h 84.P7fx7g+ 114.S3fx2g 85.K8hx7g 115.K2hx2g 86.R*6i 116.+R6f-2f 87.P*2d 117.Resigns 88.P2cx2d 89.P*2c 90.K2bx2c

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

Standing after game 3 Habu – Namekata 2-1

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

Game 4

2015-05-20/21 Sente: HABU Yoshiharu, Meijin Gote: NAMEKATA Hisashi, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.S7i-6h 4.P3c-3d 5.P6g-6f 6.S7a-6b 7.P5g-5f 8.P5c-5d 9.S3i-4h 31.P2g-2f 10.S3a-4b 32.N8a-7c 11.G4i-5h 33.K7i-8h 12.G4a-3b 34.P9c-9d 13.G6i-7h 35.P9g-9f 14.K5a-4a 36.K3a-2b 15.K5i-6i 37.P2f-2e 38.R8b-6b 39.B4f-6h 40.N7c-8e 41.S7g-8f 42.R6b-7b 43.P1g-1f 44.G5b-4c 45.B6h-4f

16.P7c-7d 17.G5h-6g 18.G6a-5b 19.S6h-7g 20.S4b-3c 21.B8h-7i 22.B2b-3a 23.P3g-3f 24.P4c-4d 46.P4d-4e 25.S4h-3g 47.B4fx6d 26.B3a-6d 48.S5cx6d 27.B7i-4f 49.P3f-3e 28.K4a-3a 50.P3dx3e 29.K6i-7i 51.S3g-2f 30.S6b-5c 52.G4c-3d 53.S2f-1e 54.R7b-8b 55.P2e-2d 56.P2cx2d 57.B*6a 58.B*4c 59.B6ax4c+ 60.G3bx4c

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

61.S1e-2f 91.G2bx2c 62.S3c-4d 92.P*3c 63.S2f-3g 93.R2h-2d 64.K2b-3b 94.S*3e 65.P4g-4f 95.+B1ax2a 66.P4ex4f 96.S3ex2d 67.S3gx4f 97.G2cx2d 68.P*4e 98.R*2h 69.S4f-3g 99.N*2e 70.P1c-1d 100.K4d-3e 71.P*2c 101.S*1g 72.G4c-3c 102.R2h-3h+ 73.B*2b 103.N2ex3c+ 74.L1a-1c 104.K3ex2d 75.B2b-1a+ 105.+N3cx3d

76.G3cx2c 106.K2dx3d 77.S3g-2f 107.S1g-2f 78.S4d-3c 108.P*3b 79.N2i-3g 109.+B2a-2b 80.P3e-3f 110.N*3c 81.N3g-2e 111.+B2bx1c 82.P2dx2e 112.+P3g-3f 83.S2fx2e 113.L*3g 84.P3f-3g+ 114.P9d-9e 85.S2ex3d 115.L3gx3f 86.S3cx3d 116.K3d-4c 87.G*2b 117.+B1c-3e 88.K3b-4c 118.P9ex9f 89.P*4d 119.P*9h 90.K4cx4d 120.P9f-9g+

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

137.G*7g 138.+B6f-4h 139.L9f-9c+ 140.G*6i 141.K7i-8h 142.Resigns

121.P9hx9g 122.L9ax9g+ 123.L9ix9g 124.P*9f 125.L9gx9f 126.G*9h 127.K8h-7i 128.N*4f 129.S*6h 130.B*5h 131.L*5i 132.+R3h-4i Standing after game 4 133.P*9i Habu – Namekata 3-1 134.B5hx6g+ 135.P9ix9h

136.+B6gx6f

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

Game 5

2015-05-28/29 Sente: NAMEKATA Hisashi, Challenger Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Meijin

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.S7i-6h 4.P3c-3d 5.P6g-6f 6.S7a-6b 7.P5g-5f 8.P5c-5d 9.S3i-4h 31.B7i-4f 10.S3a-4b 32.K4a-3a 11.G4i-5h 33.G6i-6h 12.G4a-3b 34.S6b-7c 13.G5h-6g 35.S3g-2f 14.K5a-4a 36.K3a-2b 15.P2g-2f 37.P3f-3e 38.P3dx3e 39.S2fx3e 40.P*3d 41.S3e-2f 42.S7c-8d 43.B4fx6d 44.P6cx6d 45.B*6c

16.P7c-7d 17.S6h-7g 18.G6a-5b 19.B8h-7i 20.S4b-3c 21.P3g-3f 22.B2b-3a 23.S4h-3g 24.P8d-8e 46.S8d-7c 25.P2f-2e 47.B6c-4a+ 26.P4c-4d 48.G4c-4b 27.K5i-6h 49.+B4a-6c 28.G5b-4c 50.G3b-4c 29.K6h-7h 51.P7f-7e 30.B3a-6d 52.B*4a 53.+B6cx4a 54.G4bx4a 55.P*3e 56.P7dx7e 57.P3ex3d 58.S3cx3d 59.P*3e 60.S3d-4e

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

61.P2e-2d 91.S*3d 62.P2cx2d 92.K2c-2d 63.S2f-1e 93.N2ex3c+ 64.G4a-3b 94.K2d-3e 65.B*6a 95.S3d-2e 66.G4c-5c 96.K3e-2f 67.S1ex2d 97.G*3f 68.P*2c 98.R3ix3f+ 69.S2dx2c+ 99.S2ex3f 70.G3bx2c 100.K2fx3f 71.P*2d 101.B6a-1f+ 72.G2c-3c 102.S*3h 73.N2i-3g 103.R*5a 74.S4e-3f 104.K3f-3g 75.P3e-3d 105.R5ax5c+

76.G3c-3b 106.P*2f 77.P2d-2c+ 107.+R5cx5e 78.G3bx2c 108.K3g-2h 79.P*2d 109.+R5e-5i 80.S*2g 110.G*4i 81.P2dx2c+ 111.+R5i-5h 82.K2bx2c 112.G4i-3i 83.R2hx2g 113.+B1f-6a 84.S3fx2g+ 114.K2hx1i 85.P5f-5e 115.+B6a-7a 86.P5dx5e 116.L*7d 87.N3g-2e 117.P*5d 88.R*3i 118.P*3f 89.P3d-3c+ 119.P5d-5c+ 90.N2ax3c 120.P7e-7f

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

121.S7gx7f 151.S*4f 122.L7dx7f 152.S4g-5h 123.G6gx7f 153.+R6ix3i 124.R8b-8d 154.+P4hx3i 125.+P5c-6c 155.S4fx4e 126.B*4e 156.P*7f 127.G*6g 157.G*6h 128.B4ex6c 158.R*5i 129.G7f-7e 159.S8gx7f 130.R8d-9d 160.P4dx4e 131.L*9f 161.P8f-8e 132.R9d-7d 162.P*6c 133.G7ex7d 163.+B6d-8f 134.S7cx7d 164.P*8h 135.+B7a-5c 165.G6g-5g

136.P8e-8f 166.P8hx8i+ 137.P8gx8f 167.G6hx5h 138.P3f-3g+ 168.R5i-7i+ 139.P*7e 169.K7h-6g 140.B6c-4e 170.N*6d 141.P7ex7d 171.Resigns 142.S*7f 143.S*8g 144.S3hx4g 145.+R5h-6i 146.S7fx6g 147.G6hx6g 148.+P3g-4h 149.+B5cx6d 150.P*3g

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

Finale standing Habu – Namekata 4-1

Shogi Yearbook 2015 73th Meijin

Summary

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

86. Kisei

86. Kisei challenger’s tournament

This year’s challenger’s finale saw two young professionals. Toyoshima Masayuki (25 years) faced Sato Amahiko (27 years).

Challenger’s finale 2015-04-30 Sente: TOYOSHIMA Masayuki Gote: SATO Amahiko

1.P2g-2f 21.K5i-6h 2.P3c-3d 22.G6a-5b 3.P2f-2e 23.S7i-7h 4.B2b-3c 24.S2b-3c 5.P7g-7f 25.P3f-3e 6.S3a-2b 26.P3dx3e 7.P6g-6f 27.R2h-3h 8.S7a-6b 28.B5a-7c 9.S3i-4h 29.S4fx3e 10.P6c-6d 30.S6c-5d 11.G4i-5h 12.S6b-6c 13.P5g-5f 14.G4a-3b 15.S4h-5g

31.K6h-7i 32.R8b-6b 33.L1i-1h 34.P6d-6e 35.P6fx6e 16.K5a-4a 36.B7c-1i+ 17.P3g-3f 37.S3e-3d 18.B3c-5a 38.S3c-4d 19.S5g-4f 39.P*3c 20.P7c-7d 40.G3b-2b

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

41.S3dx2c+ 73.P*6e 42.G2bx2c 74.R6d-6a 43.P3c-3b+ 75.N7gx8e 44.K4a-5a 45.+P3bx2a

76.N7cx8e 77.N*6d 46.P*3d 78.+P2h-3h 47.R3h-3i 79.L*8f 48.S5dx6e 80.N*7c 49.+P2ax1a 81.L8fx8e 50.+B1ix1h 82.N7cx6e 51.L*6h 83.N6dx5b+ 52.P*6f 84.K5ax5b 53.L6hx6f 85.L8ex8c+ 54.S6ex6f 86.+P3h-4h 55.P*6g 87.G5hx4h 56.S6fx6g+ 88.S*7g 57.S7hx6g 89.P*6b 58.P*2h 90.S7gx8h+ 59.N2i-3g 60.P2h-2i+

91.K7ix8h 92.S*7g 61.R3i-5i 93.K8h-9h 62.+P2i-2h 94.R6ax1a 63.P*6d 95.N*6d 64.L*8d 96.K5b-4b 65.G6i-7h 97.L*2d 66.L*8e 98.G2cx2d 67.S*9f 99.G*5b 68.R6bx6d 100.K4b-3c 69.S9fx8e 101.P2ex2d 70.L8dx8e 102.P*2b 71.N8i-7g 103.S*1e 72.N8a-7c 104.L*4a

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

105.N3g-2e 126.+B3dx2c 127.P*2d 128.+B2c-3d 129.N2ex1c+ 130.R1ax1c 131.G*2c 132.R1cx2c 133.P2dx2c+ 134.+B3dx2c 135.R2ix2c+

106.K3c-3b 107.R5i-3i 108.+B1h-4e 109.P2d-2c+ 110.P2bx2c 111.P*2d 112.P3d-3e 113.P2dx2c+ 114.+B4ex2c 115.P*2d 136.K3bx2c 116.+B2c-3d 137.R*2d 117.G7hx7g 138.K2c-1b 118.P*2b 139.B*3d 119.G7g-7h 140.K1b-1a 120.B*2h 141.R2d-1d 142.K1a-2a 143.R1d-1b+ 144.K2a-3a 145.G5bx4a 146.Resigns

121.R3i-2i 122.B2hx6d+ 123.S*2c 124.P2bx2c 125.P2dx2c+

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

86. Kisei title match

Game 1

2015-06-02 Sente: TOYOSHIMA Masayuki, Challenger Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Kisei

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.S7i-6h 4.P3c-3d 5.P6g-6f 6.S7a-6b 7.P5g-5f 8.P5c-5d 9.S3i-4h 10.S3a-4b 11.G4i-5h 12.G4a-3b 13.G6i-7h 14.K5a-4a 15.K5i-6i 31.G5h-6g 32.K4a-3a 33.K6i-7i 34.K3a-2b 35.K7i-8h 36.P9c-9d 37.N2i-3g 38.P9d-9e 39.N3g-2e 40.S3c-2d 41.S4h-3g 42.S7c-6d 43.N2ex1c+ 44.S2dx1c 45.P2f-2e 16.P7c-7d 17.P2g-2f 18.G6a-5b 19.S6h-7g 20.S4b-3c 21.B8h-7i 22.B2b-3a 23.P3g-3f 24.P4c-4d 25.P1g-1f 26.G5b-4c 27.P1f-1e 28.S6b-7c 29.B7i-4f 30.B3a-4b 46.P4d-4e 47.B4f-6h 48.P7d-7e 49.P7fx7e 50.P8d-8e

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

51.S3g-2f 83.P2dx2c+ 52.P8e-8f 84.G3bx2c 53.S7gx8f 85.P*2d 54.S6dx7e 86.G2cx2d 55.S8fx7e 87.P*2e 56.B4bx7e 88.G2d-2c 57.P*7f 89.S*2d 58.B7e-6d 90.G2c-3c 59.P4g-4f 60.P*8f

91.S2dx3c+ 92.G4cx3c 61.P8gx8f 93.P2e-2d 62.N*9d 94.P*2g 63.S*7e 95.G*2c 64.B6dx7e 96.G3cx2c 65.P7fx7e 97.P2dx2c+ 66.N9dx8f 98.K2bx2c 67.B6hx8f 99.B*4a 68.R8bx8f 100.K2c-3c 69.P*8g 101.G*2c 70.R8f-8b 102.K3c-4c 71.P1e-1d 103.R2h-4h 72.S1cx1d 104.B*5i 73.L1ix1d 105.S*5b 74.L1ax1d 75.P2e-2d

106.R9bx5b 107.B4ax5b+ 76.S*6i 108.K4cx5b 77.N*7d 109.R*8b 78.S6ix7h+ 110.K5b-5c 79.K8hx7h 111.N7g-6e 80.P*7g 112.K5c-6d 81.N8ix7g 113.N7d-6b+ 82.R8b-9b 114.L*7f

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

115.Resigns

Standing after game 1 Habu – Toyoshima 1-0

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

Game 2

2015-06-16 Sente: HABU Yoshiharu, Kisei Gote: TOYOSHIMA Masayuki, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.S7i-6h 4.P3c-3d 5.P6g-6f 6.S7a-6b 7.P5g-5f 8.P5c-5d 9.S3i-4h 10.S3a-4b 11.G4i-5h 12.G4a-3b 13.G6i-7h 14.K5a-4a 15.K5i-6i 31.K6i-7i 32.P7c-7d 33.G5h-6g 34.S6b-5c 35.P6f-6e 36.B6d-7c 37.S7g-6f 38.P4d-4e 39.P7f-7e 40.P7dx7e 41.S6fx7e 42.B7c-5a 43.B6h-7g 44.N2a-3c 45.S4h-5g

16.G6a-5b 17.S6h-7g 18.S4b-3c 19.B8h-7i 20.B2b-3a 21.P3g-3f 22.P4c-4d 23.P3f-3e 24.B3a-6d 25.R2h-1h 26.G5b-4c 27.P3ex3d 28.S3cx3d 29.B7i-6h 30.P*3e 46.K4a-3a 47.P5f-5e 48.K3a-2b 49.S5g-5f 50.B5a-4b 51.S7e-7d 52.P5dx5e 53.B7gx5e 54.P6c-6d 55.R1h-5h 56.S5c-5d

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

57.B5e-2h 89.K7i-8h 58.P4e-4f 90.S*3d 59.B2hx4f 60.P*7c

91.N2ex3c+ 92.B1ex3c 61.P6ex6d 93.K8h-9h 62.P7cx7d 94.N*7f 63.P6d-6c+ 95.P*4d 64.R8b-9b 96.N7fx6h+ 65.P*6d 97.G7hx6h 66.S3d-4e 98.P6f-6g+ 67.B4fx3e 99.G6hx6g 68.S4ex5f 100.S*7h 69.G6gx5f 101.N*7i 70.N3c-4e 102.P*6f 71.P*5e 103.G6g-7g 72.P*6f 104.S7hx7i+ 73.S*6h 105.P4d-4c+ 74.G4c-3d 75.+P6c-5c

106.S3dx4c 107.N*2e 76.B4b-1e 108.+S7ix8i 77.B3e-4f 109.N2ex3c+ 78.S*3f 110.G3bx3c 79.R5h-3h 111.P*7i 80.N4e-3g+ 112.N*8e 81.N2ix3g 113.B*5a 82.S3fx4g 114.R4i-4h+ 83.P*3c 115.P7i-7h 84.G3dx3c 116.S4c-4d 85.N3g-2e 117.P*3d 86.S4gx3h 118.G3c-3b 87.P5ex5d 119.+P5c-4b 88.R*4i 120.R9bx4b

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

121.B5ax4b+ 122.G3bx4b 123.P5d-5c+ 124.+S8i-8h 125.Resigns

Standing after game 2 Habu – Toyoshima 1-1

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

Game 3

2015-07-04 Sente: TOYOSHIMA Masayuki, Challenger Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Kisei

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.S7i-6h 4.P3c-3d 5.P6g-6f 6.S7a-6b 7.P5g-5f 8.P5c-5d 9.S3i-4h 10.S3a-4b 11.G4i-5h 12.G4a-3b 13.G5h-6g 14.K5a-4a 15.P2g-2f 31.K7h-8h 32.K4a-3a 33.G6i-7h 34.K3a-2b 35.B7i-4f 36.S6b-7c 37.P9g-9f 38.P9c-9d 39.P1g-1f 40.B6d-4b 41.P3f-3e 42.P3dx3e 43.B4fx3e 44.R8b-9b 45.B3e-5g

16.P7c-7d 17.S6h-7g 18.G6a-5b 19.B8h-7i 20.S4b-3c 21.P3g-3f 22.B2b-3a 23.S4h-3g 24.P8d-8e 25.P2f-2e 26.P4c-4d 27.K5i-6h 28.G5b-4c 29.K6h-7h 30.B3a-6d 46.P*3d 47.S3g-2f 48.S7c-8d 49.P6f-6e 50.P7d-7e 51.P7fx7e 52.P9d-9e 53.P9fx9e 54.S8dx9e

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

55.L9ix9e 87.P2d-2c+ 56.R9bx9e 88.G3bx2c 57.P*9g 89.P*2d 58.N8a-7c 90.G2c-1c 59.S7g-7f 60.P*7d

91.P7d-7c+ 92.P1dx1e 61.P7ex7d 93.P*3b 62.N7cx6e 94.K2bx3b 63.S7fx6e 95.+P7cx6c 64.P8e-8f 96.L6d-6g+ 65.S6e-7f 97.P*6d 66.P*7e 98.P*2g 67.S*8d 99.R2hx2g 68.P7ex7f 100.B*4i 69.S8dx9e 101.+P6c-5b 70.L9ax9e 102.B4ix2g+ 71.G6gx7f 103.G7hx6g 72.P8fx8g+ 104.+S5gx6g 73.K8hx8g 105.+P5bx4b 74.P*7e 75.G7f-6f

106.G4cx4b 107.P6d-6c+ 76.L*6d 108.R*7i 77.G6fx7e 109.Resigns 78.S*6f 79.N*2d 80.P2cx2d 81.P2ex2d 82.S6fx5g+ 83.S2f-1e 84.N*3a 85.R*8a 86.P1c-1d

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

Standing after game 3 Habu – Toyoshima 2-1

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

Game 4 2015-07-15 Sente: HABU Yoshiharu, Kisei Gote: TOYOSHIMA Masayuki, Challenger

1.P2g-2f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2f-2e 4.P8d-8e 5.G6i-7h 6.G4a-3b 7.P2e-2d 8.P2cx2d 9.R2hx2d 10.P*2c 31.P1f-1e 11.R2d-2h 32.K5a-4b 12.P3c-3d 33.P4g-4f 13.S3i-3h 34.S7b-7c 14.S7a-7b 35.S8h-7g 15.S3h-2g 36.S7c-6d 37.P6g-6f 38.P7d-7e 39.P7fx7e 40.S6dx7e 41.P*7f 42.S7e-6d 43.S3f-4g 44.S6d-5e 45.P6f-6e

16.P9c-9d 17.S2g-3f 18.P8e-8f 19.P8gx8f 20.R8bx8f 21.P*8g 22.R8f-8d 23.P9g-9f 24.P7c-7d 25.P7g-7f 46.B*8b 26.B2bx8h+ 47.G4i-5h 27.S7ix8h 48.G6a-6b 28.N2a-3c 49.P5g-5f 29.P1g-1f 50.S5ex4f 30.S3a-2b 51.S4gx4f 52.B8bx4f 53.S*5e 54.B4f-2d 55.P*2e 56.N3cx2e 57.R2hx2e 58.K4b-3a 59.P6e-6d 60.P6cx6d

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

88.B4i-3h+ 89.G5h-6g 90.S*4g

61.K5i-6i 62.N8a-7c 63.N*1f 64.B2d-3c 91.G7f-6f 65.B*7e 92.S*5h 66.R8d-7d 93.P*4d 67.S5ex6d 94.S5hx6g+ 68.N7c-8e 95.K6hx6g 69.P*6c 96.P4cx4d 70.G6b-6a 97.S5ex4d 71.P6c-6b+ 98.S4gx5f 72.N8ex7g 99.G6fx5f 73.N8ix7g 100.Resigns 74.P*6h 75.K6ix6h

Finale standing 76.P*6g Habu – Toyoshima 3-1 77.G7hx6g 78.P*6f

79.G6gx6f 80.G6ax6b 81.S6d-5e 82.R7dx7e 83.P7fx7e 84.P*7f 85.G6fx7f

86.B*4i 87.R2e-4e

Shogi Yearbook 2015 86. Kisei

Summary

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56. Oi

56. Oi challenger league

It was a hard fight in both groups with a very close run. In the end Sugai and Hirose met in the challenger’s finale to determine the opponent of title holder Habu.

Challenger’s finale 11.B*5c 2015-06-08 12.B*5g Sente: SUGAI Tatsuya 13.S7i-6h 14.B5g-8d+ Gote: HIROSE Akihito 15.P9g-9f

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.P5g-5f 4.P8d-8e 5.B8h-7g 6.P5c-5d 7.R2h-8h 8.P3c-3d 9.B7gx2b+ 10.S3ax2b

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16.+B8d-7d 46.R5dx7d 17.B5c-9g+ 47.R8fx5f 18.+B7dx5f 48.N8a-7c 19.K5i-4h 49.+B8ex7d 20.G4a-4b 50.+B9bx7d 21.N8i-7g 51.P*5b 22.K5a-4a 52.P*5e 23.P8g-8f 53.R5fx5e 24.P8ex8f 54.P*5c 25.+B9gx8f 55.G5h-6g 26.+B5f-7d 56.G4bx5b 27.G6i-5h 57.K3h-2h 28.K4a-3b 58.P*8f 29.K4h-3h 59.P8d-8c+ 30.S2b-3c 60.+B7dx8c

31.P*8e 61.P*8h 32.R8b-5b 62.B*6i 33.P6g-6f 63.R5e-5f 34.P5d-5e 64.B6i-7h+ 35.P6f-6e 65.S3i-3h 36.P5e-5f 66.N7cx6e 37.P7f-7e 67.N7gx6e 38.+B7d-9b 68.+B8cx6e 39.P8e-8d 69.R5fx8f 40.S7a-7b 70.N*5e 41.+B8f-8e 71.P*7c 42.P7c-7d 72.S7bx7c 43.P7ex7d 73.G6g-6f 44.R5b-5d 74.+B6e-9b 45.R8h-8f 75.G6fx5e

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

76.+B7hx6h 106.R7ix9i+ 77.R8f-2f 107.N*4e 78.+B6h-3e 108.G5c-5d 79.R2f-8f 109.P*5e 80.G5b-4b 110.G5d-4d 81.N*4f 111.N4ex3c+ 82.P1c-1d 112.+B2dx3c 83.P3g-3f 113.P4f-4e 84.+B3e-2d 114.N*3e 85.P2g-2f 115.P4ex4d 86.S*5g 116.L*2g 87.P*6e 117.K2h-3i 88.P*8e 118.+B3cx4d 89.R8f-5f 119.G*3a 90.S5gx4f+ 120.K3b-3c

91.P4gx4f 121.+R7a-5a 92.P5c-5d 122.L2gx2i+ 93.G5ex5d 123.K3i-4h 94.+B9bx6e 124.+R9ix8h 95.G5d-5e 125.S*5h 96.+B6ex5f 126.N*4e 97.G5ex5f 127.S*4f 98.R*7i 128.S7c-6b 99.R*8a 129.+R5ax9a 100.P*7a 130.P*5g 101.B*8c 131.S4fx4e 102.G6a-5b 132.P5gx5h+ 103.P*5c 133.G4ix5h 104.G5bx5c 134.N*6f 105.R8ax7a+ 135.S4ex4d

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

136.P4cx4d 137.G5fx6f 138.S*4f 139.G6f-6g 140.P*5g 141.G5h-6h 142.S*6f 143.P3fx3e 144.+R8hx6h 145.Resigns

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

56. Oi title match

Game 1

2015-07-07/08 Sente: HIROSE Akihito, Challenger Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Oi

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P2g-2f

4.P8c-8d 31.S3g-4f 5.P2f-2e 32.P9d-9e 6.P8d-8e 33.R2f-2h 7.G6i-7h 34.R7f-7d 8.G4a-3b 35.P5g-5f 9.P2e-2d 36.R7d-2d 10.P2cx2d 37.P*2e 11.R2hx2d 38.R2d-3d 12.P8e-8f 39.P5f-5e 13.P8gx8f 40.R3dx3f 14.R8bx8f 41.S7i-6h 15.R2dx3d 42.R3f-3d 43.S6h-5g 44.K5b-6b 45.S5g-5f

16.B2b-3c 17.R3d-3f

18.R8f-8d 46.K6b-7a 19.R3f-2f 47.B8h-6f 20.S3a-2b 48.B3c-4b 21.P*8g 49.N8i-7g 22.K5a-5b 50.S2b-3c 23.S3i-4h 51.B6f-5g 24.S7a-7b 52.R3d-9d 25.P3g-3f 53.B5g-6f 26.R8d-7d 54.S3c-4d 27.S4h-3g 55.P8g-8f 28.R7dx7f 56.P5c-5d 29.K5i-6i 57.P5ex5d 30.P9c-9d 58.R9dx5d 59.S5f-6e 60.R5d-5a

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

61.P2e-2d 91.N*7e 62.P*2b 92.S*7d 63.P9g-9f 93.N7ex8c+ 64.B4bx8f 94.S7dx8c 65.P9fx9e 95.B*6c 66.P6c-6d 96.L9ax9d 67.S6e-7f 97.P*8e 68.P*9h 98.P9g-9h+ 69.P*8b 99.R8h-2h 70.K7ax8b 100.S8c-7d 71.L9ix9h 101.P*5b 72.P*9g 102.G6ax5b 73.G7h-8g 103.B6c-1h+ 74.B8fx7g+ 104.P8dx8e 75.G8gx7g 105.B3ix5g

76.P9gx9h+ 106.G5b-6b 77.R2hx9h 107.G4i-4h 78.P*8c 108.L*5d 79.P9e-9d 109.B5g-8d 80.P*9g 110.N*7b 81.R9h-8h 111.B8d-6f 82.N*5d 112.P6d-6e 83.B6f-3i 113.B6f-7e 84.N5dx4f 114.S7dx7e 85.P4gx4f 115.S7fx7e 86.P*5g 116.+P9h-8h 87.P*8d 117.P*5h 88.P8cx8d 118.B*3i 89.P*8c 119.R2h-3h 90.S7bx8c 120.B3ix4h+

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

Standing after game 1 Habu – Hirose 1-0

121.R3hx4h 122.G*4g 123.Resigns

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

Game 2

2015-07-21/22 Sente: HABU Yoshiharu, Oi Gote: HIROSE Akihito, Challenger

1.P2g-2f 2.P8c-8d 3.P7g-7f 4.G4a-3b 5.G6i-7h 6.P8d-8e 7.B8h-7g 31.S4g-5f 8.P3c-3d 32.P6d-6e 9.S7i-8h 33.N2i-3g 10.B2bx7g+ 34.K4b-3a 11.S8hx7g 35.R2h-4h 12.S3a-4b 36.G5b-4b 13.S3i-3h 37.K7i-8h 14.S7a-7b 38.K3a-2b 15.P9g-9f 39.G5h-4g 40.P4c-4d 41.P2f-2e 42.L1a-1b 43.R4h-6h 44.R8b-6b 45.R6h-2h

16.P9c-9d 17.P4g-4f 18.P6c-6d 19.P1g-1f 20.P1c-1d 21.P3g-3f 22.S7b-6c 46.R6b-8b 23.K5i-6h 47.P4f-4e 24.S4b-3c 48.G4b-4c 25.S3h-4g 49.P4ex4d 26.K5a-4b 50.G4cx4d 27.G4i-5h 51.G4g-4h 28.S6c-5d 52.G4d-4c 29.K6h-7i 53.R2h-2i 30.G6a-5b 54.K2b-1a 55.N3g-4e 56.S3c-2b 57.P*4d 58.G4c-4b

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

59.B*6d 60.R8b-5b

91.+P3bx2b 92.K1ax2b 61.N4ex5c+ 93.S*3d 62.G4bx5c 94.P*8g 63.B6dx5c+ 95.G7hx8g 64.R5bx5c 96.G*3c 65.G*6d 97.P5g-5f 66.R5c-5a 98.R5ex4e 67.G6dx5d 99.S3dx4e 68.P*4b 100.P6e-6f 69.S*4c 101.S7gx6f 70.P4bx4c 102.P9ex9f 71.P4dx4c+ 103.P*4d 72.G3b-3a 104.P9f-9g+ 73.G5d-4d 105.L9ix9g 74.P8e-8f 75.P8gx8f

106.L9ax9g+ 107.G8gx9g 76.P9d-9e 108.P*8g 77.G4dx3d 109.G9gx8g 78.S*1c 110.N*9e 79.P2e-2d 111.P4d-4c+ 80.S1cx2d 112.B*6c 81.G3dx2d 113.G8g-7g 82.P2cx2d 114.P*4g 83.S*3b 115.+P4cx3c 84.G3ax3b 116.N2ax3c 85.+P4cx3b 117.S4e-3d 86.S*2c 118.Resigns 87.G*4b 88.R5a-5d 89.S5f-4e 90.R5d-5e

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

Standing after game 2 Habu – Hirose 2-0

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

Game 3

2015-08-05/06 Sente: HIROSE Akihito, Challenger Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Oi

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2g-2f 4.G4a-3b 5.G6i-7h 6.P3c-3d 7.P2f-2e 31.S3i-4h 8.P8d-8e 32.N7c-6e 9.P2e-2d 33.B7g-6f 10.P2cx2d 34.B3cx6f 11.R2hx2d 35.P6gx6f 12.P8e-8f 36.B*4d 13.P8gx8f 37.R2f-3f 14.R8bx8f 38.S2b-3c 15.R2dx3d 39.P1g-1f 40.P*8h 41.G7hx8h 42.P*2h 43.B*1g 44.P2hx2i+ 45.B1gx4d

16.B2b-3c 17.R3d-3f 18.S3a-2b 19.P*8g 20.R8f-8e 21.R3f-2f 22.K5a-4a 46.P4cx4d 23.B8h-7g 47.R3f-2f 24.S7a-6b 48.N6ex5g 25.S7i-6h 49.S6hx5g 26.G6a-5a 50.P*2d 27.K5i-6i 51.R2fx2i 28.P7c-7d 52.B*6g 29.G4i-5i 53.N8i-7g 30.N8a-7c 54.R8e-8d 55.B*5h 56.B6g-3d+ 57.P4g-4f 58.K4a-3a 59.S4h-4g 60.G5a-4b

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

61.G5i-6h 91.S*3f 62.S6b-7c 92.+B3ex3f 63.P3g-3f 93.B5hx3f 64.P7d-7e 94.N*7f 65.P7fx7e 95.P5d-5c+ 66.R8d-8a 96.P5bx5c 67.P3f-3e 97.P1e-1d 68.+B3d-4c 98.P1cx1d 69.N7g-6e 99.G6h-7h 70.S7c-6d 100.R8a-3a 71.S4g-5f 101.P*3g 72.P5c-5d 102.N7fx8h+ 73.S5f-6g 103.G7hx8h 74.P5d-5e 104.N*7f 75.P*2b 105.L1ix1d

76.K3ax2b 106.P*1c 77.P*2c 107.N*1e 78.K2b-1b 108.G*3h 79.N*3d 109.R2i-2g 80.S3cx3d 110.N7fx8h+ 81.P3ex3d 111.P*2e 82.+B4cx3d 112.R3ax3f 83.P*5d 113.N1ex2c+ 84.P5e-5f 114.K1bx2c 85.S6gx5f 115.P2ex2d 86.P*5b 116.K2c-3b 87.P1f-1e 117.P2d-2c+ 88.G3bx2c 118.K3b-4c 89.P*3e 119.P3gx3f 90.+B3dx3e 120.B*7h

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

121.K6i-5i 122.S*4h 123.S5gx4h 124.B7hx5f+ Standing after game 3 125.B*6a Habu – Hirose 2 - 1 126.N*5b 127.R*5h 128.S*6g 129.R2gx6g 130.+B5fx6g 131.N6ex5c+ 132.S6dx5c 133.R5hx5c+ 134.K4cx5c 135.P*5d

136.K5c-4c 137.B6ax5b+ 138.K4cx5b 139.S*5c 140.G4bx5c 141.P5dx5c+ 142.K5bx5c 143.P*5d 144.K5c-6b 145.S*5c 146.K6b-7b 147.N*8d 148.Resigns

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

Game 4

2015-08-18/19 Sente: HABU Yoshiharu, Oi Gote: HIROSE Akihito, Challenger

1.P2g-2f 2.P3c-3d 3.P7g-7f 4.P4c-4d 5.P2f-2e 6.B2b-3c 7.S3i-4h 8.S3a-3b 31.P5f-5e 9.P5g-5f 32.S5d-4c 10.R8b-4b 33.S7i-8h 11.K5i-6h 34.S4c-4d 12.K5a-6b 35.P3g-3f 13.K6h-7h 36.G6a-7a 14.K6b-7b 37.G6i-7i 15.S4h-5g 38.G4a-5b 39.G6h-7h 40.R4b-4a 41.R2h-5h 42.G5b-6b 43.P1g-1f 44.P3d-3e 45.P3fx3e

16.K7b-8b 17.B8h-7g 18.S3b-4c 19.K7h-8h 20.S4c-5d 21.S5g-6f 22.P6c-6d 23.G4i-5h 46.P4e-4f 24.L9a-9b 47.P4gx4f 25.G5h-6h 48.S4dx3e 26.K8b-9a 49.P*3d 27.L9i-9h 50.B3c-2b 28.S7a-8b 51.P5e-5d 29.K8h-9i 52.P5cx5d 30.P4d-4e 53.R5hx5d 54.P6d-6e 55.S6f-5e 56.P*5f 57.P*5c 58.R4a-5a 59.P3d-3c+ 60.B2bx3c

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

76.S8bx7a 77.P*5c 78.G4cx5c 79.N3g-4e 80.G5c-5b 81.P*5c 82.G5b-6b 83.G*5b 84.Resigns

61.N2i-3g 62.G6bx5c 63.R5d-3d 64.P5f-5g+ 65.R3dx3e 66.P*3d 67.R3ex3d 68.G5c-4c 69.R3dx3c+ 70.G4cx3c 71.B*4b 72.R5a-4a 73.B4b-5c+ Standing after game 4 74.G3c-4c Habu – Hirose 3 – 1 75.+B5cx7a

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

Game 5

2015-08-26/27 Sente: HIROSE Akihito, Challenger Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Oi

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2g-2f 4.G4a-3b 5.G6i-7h 6.P8d-8e 7.B8h-7g 8.P3c-3d 31.S4g-5f 9.S7i-8h 32.P4c-4d 10.B2bx7g+ 33.N2i-3g 11.S8hx7g 34.P7c-7d 12.S3a-4b 35.P6g-6f 13.S3i-3h 36.S4b-3c 14.S7a-7b 37.P2f-2e 15.P9g-9f 38.K3a-2b 39.K7i-8h 40.G5b-4b 41.G5h-4g 42.G4b-4c 43.G4g-4h 44.P6d-6e 45.B*6d

16.P9c-9d 17.P4g-4f 18.P6c-6d 19.S3h-4g 20.S7b-6c 21.K5i-6h 22.S6c-5d 23.K6h-7i 46.R8b-9b 24.G6a-5b 47.P6fx6e 25.G4i-5h 48.S5d-6c 26.K5a-4a 49.B6d-5e 27.P1g-1f 50.S6c-5d 28.P1c-1d 51.B5e-6f 29.P3g-3f 52.N8a-7c 30.K4a-3a 53.P2e-2d 54.P2cx2d 55.P*2e 56.N7cx6e 57.S7g-6h 58.P9d-9e 59.P9fx9e 60.P*9g

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

61.P2ex2d 91.B8d-5a+ 62.B*6i 92.+R2ex2d 63.B6f-8d 93.L9ix9g 64.B6ix3f+ 94.P*6f 65.G4h-4g 95.S6gx6f 66.P*2g 96.+P3h-4h 67.R2h-3h 97.S*3f 68.+B3f-2f 98.G*2e 69.P*6f 99.G*3g 70.P*6g 100.N*5d 71.S5fx6g 101.S6h-6g 72.P3d-3e 102.+P4h-5h 73.P6fx6e 103.S3fx2e 74.P3e-3f 104.+R2dx2e 75.N3g-2e 105.G*2f

76.+B2fx2e 106.N5dx6f 77.G4gx3f 107.S6gx6f 78.P2g-2h+ 108.S*6i 79.G3fx2e 109.G7h-7i 80.+P2hx3h 110.S*6h 81.N*3e 111.G7ix6i 82.R*2i 112.S6hx6i 83.B*4a 113.L9g-9f 84.N*3a 114.R9b-5b 85.N3ex4c+ 115.B4ax5b+ 86.S5dx4c 116.S4cx5b 87.P*3d 117.S*7i 88.R2ix2e+ 118.B*6h 89.P3dx3c+ 119.S7ix6h 90.N2ax3c 120.+P5hx6h

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

125.Resigns

121.K8h-9g 122.S6i-7h+ 123.B*9i Finale standing 124.S*8h Habu – Hirose 4 – 1

Shogi Yearbook 2015 56. Oi

Summary

Shogi Yearbook 2015 63. Oza

63. Oza

63. Oza Challenger’s tournament

Sato Amahiko played an excellent challenger’s tounament and could beat Maruyama and Watanabe. In the finale he had to play against last year’s challenger Toyoshima.

Challenger’s finale

2015-07-21 Sente: TOYOSHIMA Masayuki Gote: SATO Amahiko

1.P7g-7f 20.P6c-6d 2.P3c-3d 21.P6ex6d 3.P6g-6f 22.B2bx8h+ 4.R8b-3b 23.K7ix8h 5.K5i-6h 24.P*6f 6.K5a-6b 25.S6gx6f 7.S7i-7h 26.B*6g 8.K6b-7b 27.G4i-5h 9.K6h-7i 28.B6gx5f+ 10.K7b-8b 29.S6f-7g 11.P6f-6e 30.+B5f-5e 12.S7a-7b 13.S3i-4h 14.P3d-3e 15.P5g-5f

31.P*3g 32.R3fx7f 33.G6i-7h 34.R7f-7d 16.P3e-3f 35.G5h-6g 17.P3gx3f 36.R7dx6d 18.R3bx3f 37.S4h-5g 19.S7h-6g 38.+B5e-3c

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39.S5g-5f 71.K7h-6g 40.G4a-5b 72.N8a-9c 41.P9g-9f 73.L*7e 42.S3a-4b 74.N*8d 43.P9f-9e 75.L7ex7d 44.P5c-5d 45.P*6e

76.P7cx7d 77.P*7e 46.R6d-6b 78.N8dx7f 47.S7g-6f 79.P7ex7d 48.S4b-5c 80.G*8c 49.N8i-7g 81.G7gx7f 50.G5b-6c 82.+P9gx8g 51.P9e-9d 83.N*4e 52.P9cx9d 84.+B3cx6f 53.P*9c 85.G7fx6f 54.L9ax9c 86.S5c-4d 55.N7g-8e 87.G*7c 56.P8c-8d 88.L*5e 57.N8ex9c+ 89.G7cx6b 58.K8bx9c 90.G6ax6b 59.L9ix9d 60.K9cx9d

91.P*8d 92.L5ex5f 61.B*8b 93.G6fx5f 62.P*9f 94.K9dx8d 63.B8b-9a+ 95.R*4b 64.G6c-7d 96.G*5b 65.G7h-7g 97.R4b-3b+ 66.P8d-8e 98.S*5e 67.G6g-7f 99.G5fx5e 68.L*9e 100.S4dx5e 69.K8h-7h 101.K6g-5h 70.P9f-9g+ 102.P*6f

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103.K5h-4i 104.P6f-6g+ 105.L*5i

121.L5ix5g 122.+P6gx5g 123.G*5i 106.S*8b 124.+P8g-7g 107.+B9a-9b 125.Resigns 108.P*9a 109.S*7c 110.S7bx7c 111.+B9bx8c 112.K8dx8c 113.P7dx7c+ 114.S8bx7c 115.+R3bx2a 116.B*6f 117.B*3i 118.S*5g 119.+R2a-8a 120.K8c-7d

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63. Oza title match

Game 1

2015-09-02 Sente: HABU Yoshiharu, Oza Gote: SATO Amahiko, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d

3.P2g-2f 31.P7fx7e 4.P8c-8d 32.N7c-6e 5.P2f-2e 33.R2f-3f 6.P8d-8e 34.S2b-2c 7.G6i-7h 35.S7i-6h 8.G4a-3b 36.R8d-2d 9.P2e-2d 37.P*2g 10.P2cx2d 38.B3cx8h+ 11.R2hx2d 39.G7hx8h 12.P8e-8f 40.N2a-3c 13.P8gx8f 41.P6g-6f 14.R8bx8f 42.B*4e 15.R2dx3d 43.R3f-4f 44.P*8f 45.P5g-5f

16.B2b-3c 17.R3d-3f

18.R8f-8d 46.P8fx8g+ 19.R3f-2f 47.G8hx8g 20.S3a-2b 48.S2c-3d 21.P*8g 49.B*5e 22.K5a-5b 50.P*7g 23.K5i-5h 51.N8ix7g 24.S7a-7b 52.P*8f 25.S3i-3h 53.G8gx8f 26.P7c-7d 54.N6ex7g+ 27.P1g-1f 55.S6hx7g 28.N8a-7c 56.N*5d 29.N2i-1g 57.R4fx4e 30.P7d-7e 58.S3dx4e 59.B5ex9a+ 60.S4ex5f

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61.B*6h 91.K3i-2h 62.R*6g 92.+N5hx4i 63.+B9a-5e 93.R*4b 64.R6gx7g+ 94.K5b-6c 65.B6hx7g 95.S*7d 66.S*5g 96.K6c-5d 67.K5h-5i 97.R2a-2d+ 68.S5f-6g+ 98.G*4d 69.P*5h 99.G*4f 70.P*7f 100.B4h-3i+ 71.P5hx5g 101.K2h-1h 72.P7fx7g+ 102.B*5e 73.K5i-4h 103.+N3bx3c 74.N5dx6f 104.B5ex4f 75.P*6b 105.R4bx4c+

76.G6a-7a 106.K5d-5e 77.N*3f 107.+R4cx4d 78.R2d-8d 108.K5e-5f 79.P*8e 109.G*6f 80.R8d-6d 110.Resigns 81.K4h-3i 82.N6f-5h+ 83.R*2a 84.P*3a 85.N3f-2d 86.+S6gx5g 87.+B5ex6d 88.P6cx6d 89.N2dx3b+ 90.B*4h

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Standing after game 1 Habu – Sato A. 1-0

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Game 2

2015-09-17 Sente: SATO Amahiko, Challenger Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Oza

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2g-2f 4.G4a-3b 5.G6i-7h 6.P8d-8e 31.P3g-3f 7.B8h-7g 32.P6d-6e 8.P3c-3d 33.N2i-3g 9.S7i-8h 34.K4a-3a 10.B2bx7g+ 35.P2f-2e 11.S8hx7g 36.S4b-3c 12.S3a-4b 37.G5h-4g 13.S3i-3h 38.G5b-4c 14.S7a-7b 39.K7i-8h 15.P4g-4f 40.K3a-2b 41.R2h-6h 42.R8b-6b 43.R6h-4h 44.R6b-9b 45.P4f-4e

16.P6c-6d 17.S3h-4g 18.S7b-6c 19.K5i-6h 20.S6c-5d 21.S4g-5f 46.R9b-8b 22.P4c-4d 47.P4ex4d 23.K6h-7i 48.S3cx4d 24.G6a-5b 49.R4h-2h 25.G4i-5h 50.S4d-3c 26.K5a-4a 51.G4g-4h 27.P9g-9f 52.G4c-4b 28.P9c-9d 53.R2h-2i 29.P1g-1f 54.G4b-4c 30.P1c-1d 55.S5f-4g 56.G4c-4b 57.P5g-5f 58.P8e-8f 59.P8gx8f 60.P7c-7d

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61.B*4f 91.P3f-3e 62.B*7c 92.P3dx3e 63.B4fx7c+ 93.P2e-2d 64.N8ax7c 94.P2cx2d 65.B*4f 95.P*2e 66.R8b-8c 96.P*8h 67.P*4e 97.N8i-7g 68.P6e-6f 98.N6ex7g+ 69.S7gx6f 99.S6fx7g 70.P9d-9e 100.B9cx8d 71.P9fx9e 101.P*3d 72.P*9f 102.S3cx3d 73.G7h-8g 103.B4f-5e 74.L9ax9e 104.G4b-3c 75.P*9h 105.N*4f

76.S5d-6e 106.S3d-4c 77.S6fx6e 107.P2ex2d 78.N7cx6e 108.P5c-5d 79.K8h-7h 109.B5ex3c+ 80.R8c-6c 110.G3bx3c 81.S*6f 111.G*2c 82.P*6d 112.K2b-3a 83.G4h-5h 113.G2cx3c 84.R6c-6a 114.N2ax3c 85.P8f-8e 115.P2d-2c+ 86.R6a-6c 116.Resigns 87.G8g-8f 88.S*9d 89.P8e-8d 90.B*9c

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Standing after game 2 Habu – Sato A. 1-1

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Game 3

2015-09-24 Sente: HABU Yoshiharu, Oza Gote: SATO Amahikio, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P2g-2f 4.P8c-8d 5.P2f-2e 6.P8d-8e 7.G6i-7h 8.G4a-3b 9.P2e-2d 10.P2cx2d 11.R2hx2d 12.P8e-8f

13.P8gx8f 31.S4h-3g 14.R8bx8f 32.P9c-9d 15.R2dx3d 33.P9g-9f 34.K5b-6b 35.S3g-4f 36.B3cx8h+ 37.S7ix8h 38.N2a-3c 39.R2f-2h 40.P1e-1f 41.P1gx1f 42.P*1g 43.B*2a 44.P*2d 45.N2i-3g

16.B2b-3c 17.R3d-3f 18.R8f-8d 19.R3f-2f 20.S3a-2b 21.P*8g 22.K5a-5b 23.S3i-4h 24.S7a-7b 25.G4i-3h 26.P1c-1d 27.K5i-5h

28.P1d-1e 46.G3b-4b 29.P3g-3f 47.S8h-7g 30.S2b-2c 48.G6a-5b 49.S7g-6f 50.G4b-4a 51.N3g-4e 52.B*2b 53.N4ex3c+

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54.B2bx3c 86.S*5i 55.S6f-7e 87.Resigns 56.R8d-8b 57.N8i-7g 58.G4a-3a 59.N*3e 60.S2c-3d

Standing after game 3 Habu – Sato A. 1-2

61.S4f-4e 62.S3dx3e 63.P3fx3e 64.G3ax2a 65.P3e-3d 66.B3c-5a 67.S*3c 68.P2d-2e 69.R2hx2e 70.N*4f 71.K5h-6h 72.N4fx3h+ 73.R2ex2a+ 74.+N3h-4h 75.+R2ax1a

76.B*5i 77.K6h-7i 78.G*6h 79.G7hx6h 80.R8bx8g+ 81.G*7h 82.B5ax3c 83.P3dx3c+ 84.B5ix6h+ 85.K7ix6h

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Game 4

2015-10-06 Sente: SATO Amahiko, Challenger Gote: HABU Yoshiharu, Oza

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P2g-2f 4.G4a-3b 5.P2f-2e 6.B2bx8h+ 7.S7ix8h 8.S3a-2b 9.K5i-6h 31.S4g-5f 10.S2b-3c 32.P4e-4f 11.S3i-3h 33.P6g-6f 12.S7a-7b 34.P3d-3e 13.G4i-5h 35.P6f-6e 14.P7c-7d 36.S6d-7c 15.S8h-7g 37.N3g-4e 38.P3ex3f 39.G5h-4h 40.B*5i 41.B*2f 42.G3b-4c 43.S7g-6h 44.B5ix4h+ 45.R2hx4h

16.P8c-8d 17.G6i-7h 18.P9c-9d 19.P3g-3f 20.S7b-7c 21.P4g-4f 22.P8d-8e 23.S3h-4g 24.S7c-6d 46.S3c-4d 25.N2i-3g 47.B2fx4d 26.P4c-4d 48.P3f-3g+ 27.K6h-7i 49.R4hx4f 28.G6a-5b 50.G4cx4d 29.P4f-4e 51.B*7a 30.P4dx4e 52.G4dx4e 53.R4fx4e 54.R8b-7b 55.P6e-6d 56.R7bx7a 57.S*4a 58.G*6i 59.K7i-8h 60.P*4d

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61.R4e-3e 62.K5ax4a 63.P6dx6c+ 64.P*3d 65.R3ex3d Standing after game 4 66.S*3c Habu – Sato A. 2-2 67.R3dx3g 68.G6ix6h

69.G7hx6h 70.B*5i 71.R3g-3h 72.B*4i 73.P*3d 74.B4ix3h+ 75.P3dx3c+

76.N2ax3c 77.G*6i 78.B5ix6h+ 79.G6ix6h 80.P8e-8f 81.B*3d 82.P8fx8g+ 83.K8hx8g 84.P*8f 85.K8g-7h 86.S*8g 87.K7h-6i 88.R*3i 89.Resigns

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Game 5

2015-10-26 Sente: HABU Yoshiharu, Oza Gote: SATO Amahiko, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P2g-2f 4.P8c-8d 5.P2f-2e 6.P8d-8e 7.G6i-7h 8.G4a-3b 9.P2e-2d 31.G4i-3h 10.P2cx2d 32.P9d-9e 11.R2hx2d 33.P3g-3f 12.P8e-8f 34.P9e-9f 13.P8gx8f 35.P9gx9f 14.R8bx8f 36.P*9g 15.R2dx3d 37.L9ix9g 38.N8a-9c 39.P*2b 40.G3bx2b 41.N2i-3g 42.N9c-8e 43.B7gx3c+ 44.N2ax3c 45.P8g-8f

16.B2b-3c 17.R3d-3f 18.R8f-8d 19.R3f-2f 20.S3a-2b 21.P*8g 22.K5a-5b 23.B8h-7g 24.G6a-5a 46.N8ex9g+ 25.S7i-6h 47.N8ix9g 26.S7a-6b 48.R8dx8f 27.S3i-4h 49.P*2d 28.P9c-9d 50.S2c-1d 29.K5i-5h 51.B*3d 30.S2b-2c 52.P*2e 53.R2f-1f 54.R8f-8i+ 55.G7h-7i 56.+R8i-8d 57.P3f-3e 58.L*2f 59.N*5e 60.G2b-3b

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61.R1fx1d 62.P1cx1d 63.P2d-2c+ Final standing 64.G3b-4b Habu – Sato A. 3-2 65.S*3b 66.K5b-6a 67.P*8e 68.+R8d-8b 69.S3bx4c+ 70.G4bx4c 71.N5ex4c 72.G5a-5b 73.+P2cx3c 74.K6a-7a 75.N*4d

76.G5b-5a 77.N4cx5a+ 78.S6bx5a 79.P8e-8d 80.+R8bx8d 81.P*8c 82.+R8dx8c 83.N4d-5b+ 84.L2f-2g+ 85.G3hx2g 86.Resigns

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Summary

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28. Ryu-O

28. Ryu-O Challenger’s tournament

Watanabe was Ryu-O title holder for years until he lost it in 2013 against Moriuchi. But this year he got the opportunity to fight in the Ryu-O title match again. His opponent in the challenger’s finale was Nagase. The score after two games was 1-1. Game 3 had to decide…

Challenger’s finale / 3rd game

2015-09-14 Sente: WATANABE Akira Gote: NAGASE Takuya

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2g-2f 4.G4a-3b 5.G6i-7h 6.P8d-8e 16.P6c-6d 7.B8h-7g 17.P4g-4f 8.P3c-3d 18.S6b-6c 9.S7i-8h 19.S3h-4g 10.S3a-4b 20.G2b-3b 11.B7gx2b+ 21.K5i-6h 12.G3bx2b 22.S6c-5d 13.S8h-7g 23.S4g-5f 14.S7a-6b 24.P4c-4d 15.S3i-3h 25.G4i-5h 26.G6a-5b 27.P3g-3f 28.K5a-4a 29.P1g-1f

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30.P1c-1d

61.R4dx5d 31.K6h-7i 62.R7bx7a 32.K4a-3a 63.R5dx6d 33.P9g-9f 64.B*7c 34.P9c-9d 65.R6d-6c+ 35.N2i-3g 66.B2fx3g+ 36.P7c-7d 67.S*6b 37.P2f-2e 68.R7a-4a 38.S4b-3c 69.P*3e 39.P6g-6f 70.S3d-4c 40.G5b-4b 71.S6bx7c+ 41.K7i-8h 72.+B3gx7c 42.K3a-2b 73.+R6cx7c 43.P4f-4e 74.N8ax7c 44.P4dx4e 75.B*5e 45.P3f-3e

76.P*3c 46.P4e-4f 77.B5ex7c+ 47.P3ex3d 78.P9d-9e 48.S3cx3d 79.P9fx9e 49.P2e-2d 80.R*3i 50.P2cx2d 81.S5f-6g 51.R2hx2d 82.P7d-7e 52.G3b-2c 83.P7fx7e 53.R2d-2f 84.G4b-3b 54.P*2d 85.P*2e 55.R2fx4f 86.S4c-5d 56.P*4d 87.+B7c-2h 57.R4fx4d 88.R3i-6i+ 58.B*2f 89.G5h-6h 59.B*7a 90.+R6i-5i 60.R8b-7b

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91.B*3g 121.N2d-1b+ 92.+R5i-4i 122.Resigns 93.B3gx9a+ 94.N*8f 95.P8gx8f 96.P8ex8f 97.N*7i 98.P*4f 99.+B9a-6d 100.P4f-4g+ 101.N*3f 102.S*4e 103.N3fx2d 104.G3b-3a 105.+B6dx5c

106.+P4g-4f 107.P1f-1e 108.P3c-3d 109.L*4d 110.R4a-8a 111.L4d-4b+ 112.+P4fx5g 113.+L4bx3a 114.+P5gx6h 115.+B5c-4d 116.G*3c 117.+L3a-3b 118.K2b-1c 119.P1ex1d 120.G2cx1d

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27th Ryu-O title match

Game 1

2015-10-15/16 Sente: WATANABE Akira, Challenger Gote: ITODANI Tetsuro, Ryu-O

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P2g-2f

4.P8c-8d 31.N2i-3g 5.P2f-2e 32.B3cx8h+ 6.P8d-8e 33.S7ix8h 7.G6i-7h 34.N2a-3c 8.G4a-3b 35.S8h-7g 9.P2e-2d 36.S2b-2c 10.P2cx2d 37.K5h-6h 11.R2hx2d 38.K5b-6b 12.P8e-8f 39.K6h-7i 13.P8gx8f 40.R8d-3d 14.R8bx8f 41.R2f-2i 15.R2dx3d 42.P*2d 43.P4g-4f 44.R3dx3f 45.S4h-4g

16.B2b-3c 17.R3d-3f 18.R8f-8d 19.R3f-2f 46.R3f-3d 20.S3a-2b 47.B*5f 21.P*8g 48.R3d-3e 22.K5a-5b 49.P*3f 23.K5i-5h 50.R3e-8e 24.S7a-7b 51.P9g-9f 25.G4i-3h 52.P5c-5d 26.P1c-1d 53.P6g-6f 27.S3i-4h 54.P5d-5e 28.P1d-1e 55.B5f-6g 29.P3g-3f 56.K6b-7a 30.P9c-9d 57.K7i-8h 58.B*6b 59.P3f-3e 60.P5e-5f

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61.B6gx5f 91.R3i-2i 62.R8ex3e 92.N*8e 63.G3h-2g 93.G*6g 64.K7a-8b 94.N8ex7g+ 65.G2g-3f 95.N8ix7g 66.R3e-5e 96.B6b-3e 67.P*3d 97.N*8f 68.P*3e 98.B3ex4f 69.P3dx3c+ 99.L*5g 70.P3ex3f 100.S*4h 71.+P3cx3b 101.N*7d 72.P3fx3g+ 102.P7cx7d 73.S4g-5h 103.N8fx7d 74.+P3g-3h 104.K8b-9b 75.B5fx3h 105.P9f-9e

76.G*4h 106.P8c-8d 77.B3h-5f 107.P9ex9d 78.R5ex5f 108.K9b-8c 79.P5gx5f 109.+R3ax3b 80.G4hx5h 110.S4hx5g+ 81.R*2a 111.G6gx5g 82.S2cx3b 112.B4fx5g+ 83.R2ax1a+ 113.G7ix6i 84.P*8c 114.B4gx5f+ 85.+R1a-3a 115.S*7e 86.S*6i 116.G*8i 87.G7h-7i 117.K8h-9g 88.B*4g 118.+B5fx6f 89.R2i-3i 119.S*9e 90.P*3h 120.+B6fx7e

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121.P7fx7e 136.N9bx8d 122.+B5gx7e 137.S9ex8d 123.P8g-8f 138.K8c-9b 124.S*8h 139.R2ix8i 125.K9g-9f 140.+B7dx8d 126.S8hx7g+ 141.P8ex8d 127.G6ix5h 142.P*9e 128.+B7ex7d 143.Resigns 129.G*8e 130.P8dx8e 131.P8fx8e 132.N*9b 133.P9d-9c+ 134.N8ax9c 135.S*8d

Standing after game 1 Itodani – Watanabe 1-0

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Game 2

2015-10-29/30 Sente: : ITODANI Tetsuro, Ryu-O Gote: WATANABE Akira, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2g-2f 4.G4a-3b 5.G6i-7h 6.P3c-3d 7.P2f-2e 8.P8d-8e 9.P2e-2d 10.P2cx2d 11.R2hx2d 12.P8e-8f 13.P8gx8f 14.R8bx8f 15.R2dx3d

31.R2fx2d 32.S2cx2d 33.R*8d 34.P*8c 35.R8dx2d 36.B3cx2d 37.B8hx1a+ 38.N2a-1c 39.+B1a-1b 40.K5b-6b 41.N8i-7g 42.K6b-7a 43.P7f-7e 44.N1c-2e 16.B2b-3c 45.N7g-6e 17.R3d-3f 18.R8f-8d 19.R3f-2f 20.S3a-2b 21.P*8g 22.K5a-5b 23.K5i-5h 24.S7a-7b 25.G4i-3h 26.P1c-1d 27.S3i-4h 28.S2b-2c 29.P3g-3f 30.R8d-2d

46.B2d-1e 47.P7e-7d 48.B1ex4h+ 49.K5hx4h 50.P*3g 51.N2ix3g 52.R*2i 53.N3gx2e

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54.R*4i 66.P*2d 55.K4h-3g 67.P3e-3d 56.R2ix2e+ 68.B6d-4f 57.B*3e 69.Resigns 58.N*4d 59.S*2g 60.P7cx7d

Standing after game 2 Itodani - Watanabe 1-1 61.N6ex5c+ 62.+R2ex3e 63.P3fx3e 64.B*6d 65.K3g-2f

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Game 3

2015-11-05/06 Sente: WATANABE Akira, Challenger Gote: ITODANI Tetsuro, Ryu-O

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P2g-2f 4.G4a-3b 5.P2f-2e 6.B2bx8h+ 7.S7ix8h 8.S3a-2b 9.S3i-3h 10.S2b-3c 31.P*2c 11.S8h-7g 32.S2b-3a 12.S7a-6b 33.R2h-2f 13.K5i-6h 34.G6a-7b 14.P7c-7d 35.K6h-7i 15.G4i-5h 36.N8a-7c 37.P3f-3e 38.P3dx3e 39.S2dx3e 40.G3b-4c 41.K7i-8h 42.P7d-7e 43.P7fx7e 44.N7c-8e 45.S7g-7f

16.P8c-8d 17.G6i-7h 18.P6c-6d 19.S3h-2g 20.S6b-6c 21.S2g-2f 22.P4c-4d 23.S2f-1e 24.S3c-2b 25.P2e-2d 46.P*2e 26.P2cx2d 47.R2fx2e 27.S1ex2d 48.B*5e 28.R8b-4b 49.N8i-7g 29.P3g-3f 50.B5ex1i+ 30.K5a-6b 51.N7gx8e 52.+B1i-5e 53.P6g-6f 54.+B5e-5d 55.G5h-6g 56.P8dx8e 57.P2c-2b+ 58.R4bx2b 59.R2ex2b+

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60.S3ax2b

91.G*7h 61.N*5e 92.R3ix3e+ 62.+B5dx5e 93.S*4f 63.R*4a 94.K5b-4c 64.N*5d 95.S4fx3e 65.R4ax4c+ 96.+B4ex3e 66.N5dx6f 97.N*4f 67.G7h-7g 98.S*6i 68.R*2h 99.B9e-5a+ 69.P*6h 100.K4c-3c 70.S6c-5b 101.G*3d 71.+R4c-4b 102.+B3ex3d 72.L*4a 103.N4fx3d 73.B*9e 104.K3cx3d 74.P*7c 105.+B5ax4b 75.P7e-7d

106.G*3c 76.L4ax4b 107.G6f-5f 77.P7dx7c+ 108.N*5d 78.G7bx7c 109.G7h-7g 79.P*7d 110.P*7h 80.K6b-5a 111.B*5b 81.G7gx6f 112.N*4c 82.+B5e-4e 113.B5bx4c+ 83.P7dx7c+ 114.G3cx4c 84.R2hx2i+ 115.P*3e 85.P*7i 116.K3dx3e 86.R*3i 117.+B4bx4c 87.+P7c-6b 118.K3e-3f 88.K5a-4a 119.+B4c-1f 89.+P6bx5b 120.P7hx7i+ 90.K4ax5b

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121.R*2f 122.+R2ix2f 123.L*3i 124.Resigns Standing after game 3 Itodani - Watanabe 1-2

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Game 4

2015-11-19/20 Sente: ITODANI Tetsuro, Ryu-O Gote: WATANABE Akira, Challenger

1.P7g-7f 2.P8c-8d 3.P2g-2f 4.G4a-3b 5.G6i-7h 6.P9c-9d 7.P5g-5f 8.P3c-3d 9.P5f-5e 10.P8d-8e 11.B8h-7g 12.S7a-6b 13.S7i-6h 14.P7c-7d 15.S6h-5g 31.S4e-5f 32.S3c-4b 33.S5f-5e 34.G6b-5c 35.S5ex6d 36.P6cx6d 37.R5h-5i 38.K4a-3a 39.K4h-3h 40.B2b-3c 41.K3h-2h 42.K3a-2b 43.S3i-3h 44.N8a-7c 45.P6g-6f 16.S6b-7c 17.S5g-5f 18.S7c-6d 19.R2h-5h 20.K5a-4a 21.S5f-4e 22.S3a-4b 23.K5i-4h 24.S4b-3c 25.P5e-5d 26.P5cx5d 27.S4ex5d 28.G6a-6b 29.S5d-4e 30.P4c-4d 46.P*5d 47.P1g-1f 48.P6d-6e 49.P7f-7e 50.R8b-8d 51.R5i-6i 52.P7dx7e 53.P6fx6e 54.P*6g

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55.S*6b 82.B4ex3f 56.G5c-6c 83.K2h-3g 57.S6bx7c 84.S*4e 58.G6cx7c 85.P4g-4f 59.N*2e 86.P*5f 60.P8e-8f 87.G6gx5f 88.+R8hx4h 89.K3gx4h 90.S4ex5f

61.N2ex3c+ 62.S4bx3c 63.B*6b 64.R8d-8c 91.R5gx5f 65.G7hx6g 92.G*4g 66.G7c-7b 93.K4h-5i 67.B7gx4d 94.G*5g 68.S*4b 95.R5fx5g 69.R6i-5i 96.G4gx5g 70.P8fx8g+ 97.P*5h 71.R5ix5d 98.R*8i 72.G7bx6b 99.Resigns 73.B4dx6b+ 74.B*4e 75.R5d-5g

Standing after game 4 76.+P8g-7g Itodani – Watanabe 1-3 77.N8ix7g 78.R8c-8h+ 79.G*4h 80.N*3e 81.P3g-3f

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Game 5

2015-12-02/03 Sente: WATANABE Akira, Challenger Gote: ITODANI Tetsuro, Ryu-O

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P2g-2f 4.P8c-8d 5.P2f-2e 6.G4a-3b 7.P2e-2d 8.P2cx2d 9.R2hx2d 10.P*2c 11.R2d-2f 12.P8d-8e 31.K5i-6i 13.G6i-7h 32.S6c-5d 14.P8e-8f 33.P3f-3e 15.P8gx8f 34.B2b-4d 35.S7i-6h 36.P3dx3e 37.K6i-7i 38.G6a-7b 39.G4i-5i 40.S3a-4b 41.N2i-3g 42.S4b-3c 43.P9g-9f 44.S3c-3d 45.P5g-5f

16.R8bx8f 17.P*8g 18.R8f-8b 19.P1g-1f 20.S7a-7b 21.S3i-3h 22.P6c-6d 23.P1f-1e 24.S7b-6c 25.P3g-3f 26.P5c-5d 27.S3h-3g 46.P5ex5f 28.P5d-5e 47.B8hx4d 29.S3g-4f 48.P4cx4d 30.R8b-5b 49.B*1f 50.S5d-4c 51.P*2d 52.B*4a 53.P2dx2c+ 54.G3bx2c 55.P*2b 56.R5bx2b 57.S4fx3e

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58.S3dx3e 88.K3c-2d 59.R2fx5f 89.G*2f 60.K5a-4b 90.S*2e

61.B1fx4c+ 91.N*1f 62.K4bx4c 92.S2ex1f 63.R5f-5a+ 93.G2fx1f 64.B4a-7d 94.R2bx7b 65.+R5ax8a 95.+R8ax7b 66.B*5e 96.K2dx3e 67.P*3f 97.R*2g 68.B5ex9i+ 98.K3e-4f 69.P3fx3e 99.+R7b-4b 70.L*5c 100.N*3e 71.S*8h 101.R2gx2c+ 72.+B9i-9h 102.K4f-3g 73.G5i-4h 103.+R4bx5c 74.P*3f 104.P*2g 75.S*9i 105.G*5h

76.P3fx3g+ 106.K3g-2h 77.G4hx3g 107.G5hx4g 78.P*3f 108.N3ex4g+ 79.G3g-3h 109.+R5c-5i 80.N*4f 110.B*2i 81.S9ix9h 111.S*1h 82.N4fx3h+ 112.P3f-3g+ 83.B*6a 113.S1hx2i 84.K4c-3c 114.+N3hx2i 85.B6ax7b+ 115.G1f-1g 86.B7dx4g+ 116.K2hx1i 87.S8h-7g 117.G1gx2g

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118.G*3h 125.P7fx7e 119.G2gx3g 126.Resigns 120.+N4gx3g

121.K7i-8h 122.P7c-7d 123.B*8b 124.P7d-7e Final standing Itodani – Watanabe 1-4

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Summary

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Denou-sen Final: Time for revenge!

In last year’s fight of computer programs versus shogi professionals the software could win very convincing with 4-1. This year’s match should be the last fight in that form of competition and the pros did everything to win. They did well … but the software made some terrible mistakes …

Here is the team 'Human': SAITO Shintaro NAGASE Takuya INABA Akira MURAYAMA Yasuaki AKUTSU Chikara

And here the team 'Computer': APERY SELENE YANEURA-OH PONANZA AWAKE

Game 1 2015-03-14 Sente: Saito Shintaro Gote: APERY

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P2g-2f 4.P4c-4d 5.P2f-2e 6.B2b-3c 7.S3i-4h 8.R8b-4b 9.K5i-6h 10.K5a-6b 11.K6h-7h 12.S3a-3b 13.P5g-5f 14.K6b-7b 15.B8h-7g 16.G4a-5b 17.S4h-5g 18.S3b-4c 19.K7h-8h 20.K7b-8b 21.L9i-9h 22.S4c-5d 23.S5g-6f 24.P6c-6d 25.G6i-7h 26.P4d-4e 27.S6f-5g 28.S5d-6e

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29.B7gx3c+ 30.N2ax3c

61.P4fx4e 62.+P6gx7g 31.P2e-2d 63.N8ix7g 32.P2cx2d 64.P6e-6f 33.R2hx2d 65.B*6a 34.P4e-4f 66.P6f-6g+ 35.R2d-2a+ 67.S*6b 36.B*4d 68.+P6gx7h 37.B*5e 69.S7ix7h 38.B4dx5e 70.S7ax6b 39.P5fx5e 71.G*7b 40.P4fx4g+ 72.K8b-9b 41.+R2ax6a 73.G7bx6b 42.B*7b 74.S*7i 43.P*4c 75.K8hx7i 44.G5bx4c 45.+R6ax6d

76.G*6h 77.K7i-8h 46.+P4gx5g 78.G6hx7h 47.+R6dx6e 79.K8hx7h 48.S*5f 80.S*8i 49.+R6e-6d 81.K7h-7i 50.P*6f 82.S8i-7h+ 51.+R6dx6f 83.K7ix7h 52.P*6e 84.S5f-6g+ 53.+R6f-7g 85.K7hx6g 54.R4b-2b 86.P*6f 55.P*2c 87.K6gx6f 56.R2bx2c 88.R2c-2f 57.G4i-3i 89.S*3f 58.B7b-4e 90.R2fx3f 59.P*4f 60.+P5gx6g

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91.P3gx3f 106.S6h-7g 92.R*6d 107.K8fx7g 93.B*6e 108.P9c-9d 94.R6dx6e 109.G*8b 95.N7gx6e 110.K9bx8b 96.B*9i 111.B*7a 97.S*7g 112.K8b-9b 98.B9ix7g+ 113.R*7b 99.K6fx7g 114.G*8b 100.S*6h 115.R7bx8b+ 101.K7gx6h 116.Resigns 102.P*6g 103.K6h-7g 104.S*6h 105.K7g-8f

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Game 2 2015-03-21 Sente: SELENE Gote: NAGASE Takuya

1.P2g-2f 2.P3c-3d 3.S3i-4h 4.P8c-8d 5.G6i-7h 6.P8d-8e 7.P2f-2e 8.B2b-3c 9.P9g-9f 10.G4a-3b 11.S7i-6h 12.P8e-8f 13.P8gx8f 14.R8bx8f 15.P*8g 31.S6h-6g 32.G6a-5b 33.N2i-3g 34.S6c-5d 35.K5i-4h 36.P4c-4d 37.R2h-2i 38.K4b-3a 39.G8h-7h 40.P7c-7d 41.K4h-3h 42.N2a-3c 43.P5g-5f 44.K3a-2a 45.G4i-4h 16.R8f-8b 17.P7g-7f 18.B3cx8h+ 19.G7hx8h 20.S3a-2b 21.P4g-4f 22.K5a-4b 23.S4h-4g 24.S7a-6b 25.P1g-1f 26.P1c-1d 27.P6g-6f 28.P6c-6d 29.P3g-3f 30.S6b-6c 46.P9c-9d 47.N8i-7g 48.N8a-7c 49.P2e-2d 50.P2cx2d 51.R2ix2d 52.S2b-2c 53.R2d-2i 54.P*2d 55.P7f-7e

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56.S5d-6c 77.B*4a 57.P7ex7d 78.P1g-1h+ 58.S6cx7d 79.R2i-8i 59.P*2e 80.G6c-6b 60.P2dx2e 81.P*1d 82.R8b-8a 83.B4ax3b+ 84.K2ax3b 85.P1d-1c+ 86.B*1f 87.P*2g 88.B1fx2g

61.N3gx2e 62.N3cx2e 63.R2ix2e 64.P*2d 65.R2e-2i 66.P*8f 67.P8gx8f 68.P1d-1e 69.P1fx1e 70.P*1g 89.S*2b 71.P*7e 72.S7d-6c and this is an illegal 73.N*5e move because Sente’s king is in 74.L1ax1e check! 75.N5ex6c+

76.G5bx6c

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Game 3 2015-03-28 Sente: INABA Akira Gote: YANEURA-OH

1.P2g-2f 2.P8c-8d 3.P7g-7f 4.P8d-8e 5.P2f-2e 6.P3c-3d 7.G6i-7h 8.P8e-8f 9.P8gx8f 10.R8bx8f 11.P2e-2d 12.P2cx2d 13.R2hx2d 14.G4a-3b 15.R2dx3d 31.S3i-4h 32.K6b-7b 33.S7i-6h 34.G6a-6b 35.P6g-6f 36.S4c-3d 37.P6f-6e 38.S3d-3e 39.R2f-7f 40.R8d-2d 41.P*2h 42.B2b-1c 43.P3g-3f 44.S3e-2f 45.N2i-3g 16.N2a-3c 17.R3d-3f 18.S3a-4b 19.P9g-9f 20.P4c-4d 21.K5i-5h 22.K5a-6b 23.G4i-3h 24.P1c-1d 25.P7f-7e 26.R8f-8d 27.N8i-7g 28.P4d-4e 29.R3f-2f 30.S4b-4c 46.P*8c 47.P2h-2g 48.S2fx2g+ 49.P*2e 50.N3cx2e 51.G3hx2g 52.N2ex3g+ 53.G2gx3g 54.R2d-2i+ 55.P7e-7d 56.P7cx7d

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57.N7g-8e 89.+B4ex4d 58.B1c-2b 90.R*7f 59.B8hx2b+ 60.G3bx2b

91.K4f-3e 92.R7fx7h+ 61.N*4i 93.P*8d 62.+R2ix1i 94.+B8ex8d 63.P*7c 95.P*2d 64.K7b-8b 96.L5dx5g+ 65.R7fx7d 97.P*5d 66.N*6f 98.P*3c 67.K5h-6g 99.+B4dx3c 68.B*5h 100.+L5gx4h 69.K6gx6f 101.N*4e 70.B5hx8e+ 102.P5cx5d 71.R7d-4d 103.P2d-2c+ 72.N*7d 104.+B8dx7c 73.K6f-5f 105.S5ix4h 74.G2b-3c 75.R4d-4b+

106.+R7hx4h 107.S*3h 76.L*5d 108.+B7cx3g 77.K5fx4e 109.S3hx3g 78.P*4d 110.+R4hx3g 79.K4e-4f 111.B*4f 80.G3c-3d 112.+R3gx4f 81.B*2c 113.P4gx4f 82.P4d-4e 114.S*2f 83.+R4bx4e 115.K3ex2f 84.G3dx4e 116.+R4ix4f 85.B2cx4e+ 117.Resigns 86.+R1ix4i 87.S6h-5i 88.P*4d

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Game 4 2015-04-04 Sente: PONANZA Gote: MURAYAMA Masuaki

1.G6i-7h 2.P3c-3d 3.P7g-7f 4.P8c-8d 5.P2g-2f 6.P8d-8e 7.P2f-2e 8.G4a-3b 9.P2e-2d 10.P2cx2d 11.R2hx2d 12.P8e-8f 13.P8gx8f 14.R8bx8f 15.R2dx3d 31.P*2h 32.S7a-8b 33.B8c-5f+ 34.G6a-7b 35.K5i-5h 36.S8b-8c 37.P7g-7f 38.P4c-4d 39.G4i-3h 40.P4d-4e 41.S8h-7g 42.S4b-4c 43.S7g-6f 44.K5a-5b 45.S3i-4h 16.B2bx8h+ 17.S7ix8h 18.R8fx7f 19.P*7g 20.R7f-7d 21.R3d-3f 22.N2a-3c 23.R3f-2f 24.P*2e 25.R2f-5f 26.S3a-4b 27.R5f-8f 28.P*8d 29.B*8c 30.R7d-2d 46.P2e-2f 47.N8i-7g 48.G3b-4b 49.R8f-8i 50.P7c-7d 51.P3g-3f 52.S4c-5d 53.P4g-4f 54.N8a-7c 55.N2i-3g 56.P*3e

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57.P3fx3e 79.P*4g 58.B*1d 80.P4d-4e 59.K5h-6h 81.S*5d 60.N7c-8e 82.K5c-4d 83.P5gx5f 84.P4ex4f 85.S6f-5e 86.K4d-3c 87.+P8cx7b 88.P4fx4g+ 89.G*3d 90.R2dx3d

61.P4fx4e 62.N3cx4e 63.N3gx4e 64.P*4d 65.N4ex5c+ 66.K5bx5c 67.N7gx8e 68.P8dx8e 69.N*4f 91.P3ex3d 70.S5d-4e 92.K3c-2c 71.P*8d 93.S4hx4g 72.N*8f 94.B3fx4g+ 73.G7h-7g 95.N*3e 74.P2f-2g+ 96.K2c-2d 75.P2hx2g 97.R*2a 98.Resigns

76.S4ex5f 77.P8dx8c+ 78.B*3f

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Game 5

2015-04-11 Sente: AKUTSU Chikara Gote: AWAKE

1.P7g-7f 16.P5c-5d 2.P3c-3d 17.S2h-2g 3.R2h-6h 18.S6b-5c 4.P8c-8d 19.P9g-9f 5.K5i-4h 20.B*2h 6.S7a-6b 21.L1i-1f 7.P1g-1f 22.Resigns 8.B2bx8h+ 9.S7ix8h 10.K5a-4b 11.P1f-1e 12.K4b-3b 13.S3i-2h 14.K3b-2b 15.P2g-2f

Summary

Saito - APERY 1-0 SELENE - Nagase 0-1 Inaba - YANEURA-OH 0-1 PONANZA - Murayama 1-0 Akutsu - AWAKE 1-0

So the human players succeded in winning against their software opponents with a result of 3-2. In 2016 there will be a match between one pro and one computer program. The human player will be determined by a tournament which takes place in 2015.

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Shogi Yearbook 2015 WOSC/ESC 2015 in Prague

WOSC/ESC 2015 in Prague

It was a huge tournament which took place this year in Prague from 19th – 23th of August to crown the winners of the World Open Shogi Championship and the European Shogi Championship. 119 participants from Europe, Japan and even Brasil and Chile fought 9 rounds.

There were a lot of differen tournaments offered, e.g. Dobutsu Shogi, Blitz and Teams events, but the official European and World Open Championships were the highlights of the event.

The event was accompanied by professional players Hiroe NAKAI and Madoka KITAO.

Here are some results:

European Championship

1. Jean Fortin France 2. Sergei Krivoshey Ukraine 3. Laszlo Abuczki Hungary

World Open Shogi Championship

1. Hideaki Takahashi Japan 2. Makoto Kawato Japan 3. Jean Fortin France

For complete results have a look at the official website: http://www.shogi2015.eu/home/

The next WOSC/ESC will take place in Amsterdam from 17th – 21st of August 2016.

Tot ziens!

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Here are some impressions of the tournament.

Many tournaments and many prizes to win …

The tournament hall with live games …

… and even a live broadcast!

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The winners of the World Open Shogi Championship …

… and the European Shogi Championship…

… and all the other winners!

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Shogi Yearbook 2015 Shogifestival 2015 in Ludwigshafen/Germany

Shogifestival 2015 in Ludwigshafen/Germany

Let’s assume that two super-grandmasters are visiting an amateur chess tournament, playing an exhibition game against each other and simultaneous games against the participants of the tournament. Or two top-football players are training at an amateur club. Incredible! But something similar happened at the shogifestival in Ludwigshafen/Germany.

Shogi has the same origin with the common chess, But it is characterised by the fact that taken pieces of the opponent can be dropped as own forces again. Thereby the game gets a drive which makes it different from all other variants of chess. Millions of people play shogi in Japan, in Germany there are about 100 players who take part in tournaments.

Venue of the shogi event in Ludwigshafen with prominent visitors was the ‚Ostasieninstitut‘, which is located next to the Rhine.

On May 2nd and 3rd the 2nd shogifestival in Ludwigshafen/Germany took place. 44 participants from Japan, France and Germany were fighting for every point. Among the players were 26 students, so the percentage of young players was high. One reason is that some schools offer shogi workshops to inspire their students for the Japanese strategy game.

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The tournament hall where the final round of the shogi tournament took place.

In the afternoon of the second day an extraordinary event took place. Akira Watanabe and Akihito Hirose, two professional shogi players, visited the shogi amateurs. They just were on a trip through Europe and took some hours time for the festival in Ludwigshafen.

Akira Watanabe and Akihito Hirose definitely belong to the top 10 of shogi professionals in Japan. In addition to their obligations as players they are commentators of shogi games in Japanese television and perform at shogi events.

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Both professionals are preparing for the game.

The final position after a hard fight.

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The professionals played first a rapid game against each other. Very soon the game became sharp and finally ended with a successful attack of Akira Watanabe. After that the two professionals analyzed their game and explained several key positions.

After that Watanabe and Hirose played simultaneous games against the tournament participants. These games differ from simultaneous games in chess. On the one hand professionals play against amateurs with handicap, that is they have 1 – 6 pieces less depending on the strength of their opponent. This makes the games for both sides more interesting because the amateurs are not crushed at once by the professionals.

On the other hand the games don’t end with resignation but Watanabe and Hirose returned to key positions of the game, proposed alternatives and gave hints for improving the playing skills. The intention of simultaneous games in shogi is to teach and not to achieve an extraordinary result for the professional.

Akira Watanabe (left) and Akihito Hirose (right) during their simultaneous games.

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The shogi festival in Ludwigshafen has been definitely THE shogi event of the year for the participants and gave them even more motivation to study and play this fascinating chess variant. You will find further informations on the web site of Shogi Deutschland.

Remark: This report has been published first on www.chessbase.com .

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Here is the Kifu of the exhibition game played between Watanabe and Hirose:

Sente: WATANABE Akira Gote: HIROSE Akihito

1.P7g-7f 2.P3c-3d 3.P2g-2f 4.P5c-5d 5.P2f-2e 6.R8b-5b 7.S3i-4h 8.P5d-5e 9.K5i-6h 10.B2b-3c 11.P3g-3f 12.K5a-6b 13.S4h-3g 14.K6b-7b 15.K6h-7h 31.S6h-7g 32.R7f-7d 33.G6i-6h 34.S3c-4d 35.P2e-2d 36.P2cx2d 37.R2hx2d 38.P*2c 39.R2d-2h 40.N2a-3c 41.B*2a 42.G3b-4b 43.R2hx2c+ 44.P*5f 45.+R2c-2b 16.K7b-8b 17.S3g-4f 18.S7a-7b 19.S7i-6h 20.G4a-3b 21.P9g-9f 22.S3a-4b 23.P9f-9e 24.P5e-5f 25.B8hx3c+ 26.S4bx3c 27.P5gx5f 28.R5bx5f 29.P*5e 30.R5fx7f 46.G4b-5b 47.B2a-3b+ 48.N3c-4e 49.+R2bx1a 50.B*2h 51.G4i-5h 52.P5f-5g+ 53.S4fx5g 54.N4ex5g+

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Shogi Yearbook 2015 Shogifestival 2015 in Ludwigshafen/Germany

55.G5hx5g 56.B2hx1i+ 57.P*7e 58.R7dx7e 59.G5g-6f 60.R7ex5e

76.K8b-9b 77.L5hx5e 78.+B1ix5e 79.N*9d 80.P9cx9d 81.P9ex9d 61.L*5h 82.P8c-8d 62.L*6d 83.+R7ax8a 63.G6fx5e 84.Resigns 64.S4dx5e 65.R*2a 66.G*6b 67.P*5c 68.G5bx5c 69.+B3b-4b 70.P*5b 71.P*5d 72.G5cx5d 73.+B4bx5b 74.G6ax5b 75.R2a-7a+

If you want to watch it on a screen, follow this link to see a video in German language : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWLdpjSkjME

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Shogi Yearbook 2015 A little bit chess, but not too much …

A little bit chess, but not too much … The two shogi professionals Akira Watanabe and Akihito Hirose visited the shogi festival in Ludwigshafen on May 3rd .They played an exhibition game, played many simultaneous games and gave an interview. Here they answered questions concerning their everyday life, training, computers and good sleep.

How does a typical day of a shogi pro look like? Watanabe: A professional player usually plays 40-50 tournament games every year. On the other days we spend time on training. But it belongs to the tasks as well to spread shogi, perform on events and comment on TV etc.

Akira Watanabe (9th Dan) was guest of the shogi festivals 2015 in Ludwigshafen.

Amateurs are often told to solve tsumes . This would be very important to increase playing ability. Do you as a professional solve tsumes? Hirose: It depends on the player. I like tsume-shogi very much. I think, that all players carry their tsumes with them to keep their mind fresh. . Are you training with the help of a computer? Hirose: No, I don’t us a computer for training. Watanabe: I am using it for 10 years. When I am analyzing I am saving my results there. Meanwhile the computer is a very important tool for me.

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Shogi Yearbook 2015 A little bit chess, but not too much …

What is your most important hint to become a better shogi player? Hirose: Amateurs should find opponents with their own skills. May be a little bit stronger than oneself and they should try to learn something out of the games. Watanabe: It is now much possible with the help of computers and the internet. You can adjust the level at the software. It is also my hint to choose a level a little bit stronger than oneself.

Your games often end late in the evening, sometime after a byoyomi. Are you dreaming afterwards of shogi? Hirose: The mind doesn’t stop working. You keep on dealing with it and you can’t sleep well. Watanabe: I leave the house at 10 a.m. and return at 1 a.m. in the night and the mind keeps on working. My method for relaxing is watching football until I am getting tired and can sleep.

Mr. Watanabe, you have played in the year 2007 against the software ‚Bonanza‘ and could win. Would you like to play a match against a computer nowadays? Watanabe: In 2007 the skills of the software have been completely different. But today you have to confirm that the software is much more developed. You can’t be sure that we two professional players would win. There are chances but it is nowadays another game. Maybe there will be a match against a computer sometime in the future.

How can shogi be spread outside of Japan? Hirose: Very important are the local shogi fans. Without them it is not possible. The Japan Shogi Association has a responsibility as well to provide means and support events. And the Shogi professionals are important. But those events have to be prepared well so that the people know the background.

What are you doing in your free time when you don’t play shogi? Do you like other strategy games or do you play chess? Watanabe: I am not playing chess but I also like the game Go. I am not very strong but I like it. Hirose: I also like Go, a little bit chess, but not too much …

Thank you very much for the interview and all the best for the future.

Thanks to Prof. Dr. Frank Rövekamp of the Ostasieninstitut Ludwigshafen for the translation from Japanese to German.

Remark: This interview has been published first on www.chessbase.com .

Akihito Hirose (8. Dan) during the simultaneous games

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Shogi Yearbook 2015 Shogi variant – Micro Shogi

Shogi variant – Micro Shogi

You want to play a different sort of shogi, wild and unpredictable? Then try Micro Shogi!

Here are the rules: The board has 5 rows and 4 columns. The starting position looks like this: First row from left to right: Silver General, Gold General, Bishop, King Second row: one pawn in front of the king

Each piece moves exactly like in normal shogi, but promotion is completely different. If a piece captures another one, you have to promote. If a promoted piece captures another piece, it has to be demoted again. There is also another difference in which value promotion takes place.

Promotion Demotion King No promotion Silver Lance Silver Gold Rook Gold Bishop Tokin Bishop Pawn Knight Pawn

This means that pieces can be trapped. If e.g. a Knight captures a piece on the last row, it demotes into a pawn … and can’t move no more. Trapped pieces stay on the board and may be captured by the opponent. Captured pieces may be dropped anywhere and you can choose the side facing up. You may drop two pawns on the same column.

Take your shogi pieces and give it a try!

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Shogi Yearbook 2015 Shogi24.com Player of the Year 2015/2016

Shogi24.com Player of the Year 2015/2016

The annual voting of the ‘Shogi24.com-Player of the Year’ was decided again in a final round between Habu and Moriuchi. And like the year before it was Habu Yoshiharu who became your Player of the Year. Shogi fans from 45 countries voted at the beginning of 2014 for their player of the year. In December 2015 the voting for the ‘Player of the Year 2015’ started on www.shogi24.com with some new and some well known participants.

Here are the candidates:

GODA Masataka Goda had a great start in 2015 when he could win the Osho title against Watanabe Current title: Osho with 4-3. 9. Dan He also played in the Meijin A-Class and the Kisei Challenger's tournament. Age: 44 HABU Yoshiharu Habu could win four titles in 2015: He won 4-1 against Namekata in the Meijin title Current titles: Meijin, match, Kisei, Oza, Oi 3-1 against Toyoshima in the Kisei title match, 4-1 against Hirose in the Oi title 9. Dan match and 3-2 against Sato Amahiko in the Oza title match. Age: 45 In the Kio title match he suffered a 0-3 defeat against Watanabe. Habu also played in the Ryu-O challenger's tournament.

HIROSE Akihito Hirose could win the Oi Challenger's tournament in the finale against Sugai. He 8. Dan fought in the Oi title match against Habu but lost with 1-4. Age: 28 In the Meijin A-Class Hirose shared the first place but lost the play-off.

ITODANI Tetsuro Itodani had to defend his Ryu-O-title which was his first title in his career. Against 8. Dan his opponent Watanabe the result was a 1-4 loss. Age: 27

NAMEKATA Namekata played an excellent Meijin A-class tournament with 6 wins and 3 losses Hisashi and won the play-offs. 8. Dan He challenged Meijin Habu but lost that title fight with 1-4. Age: 42

SATO Amahiko Sato Amahiko made his debut on the stage of the title matches after his win of the 8. Dan Oza challenger's tournament. Age: 27 He lost the Oza title fight against Habu after a big fight with 2-3.

TOYOSHIMA Toyoshima was able to win the Kisei challenger's tournament and became Masayuki challenger of Habu. 7. Dan In the title fight he lost 1-3. Age: 25 He was also busy in the Ryu-O tournament, the Osho challenger league and the Oza challenger's tournament in which he reached the final but lost against Sato Amahiko.

WATANABE Akira Watanabe had a good start into 2015 when defended his Kio title very convincingly Current title: Kio, with 3-0 against Habu. Ryu-O His attempt to defend his Osho title had no success because he lost against Goda 9. Dan with 3-4. Age: 31 At the end of the year he tried to regain his lost Ryu-O title in a match against title holder Itodani and he was successful. In the meanwhile Watanabe played in the Oza Challenger’s tournament and the Meijin A-Class, where he shared the first place but lost in the play-off.

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Shogi Yearbook 2015 Statistics

Statistics

Title match statistics

Here are a few statistical facts about the games of the title matches in 2015.

Sente wins 17 games 50 % Gote wins 17 games 50 % Sennichite/Jishogi 0 games 0 %

Opening Sente wins Gote wins Sennichite Double Static Rook 15 17 - Static Rook - Ranging Rook 2 - - Ranging Rook – Static Rook - - - Double Ranging Rook - - -

Top 10 shogi24.com-rating … lists the players with the best rating up to the 31th of December 2016.

Position Name # of games Rating 1 Habu 198 2182 2 Watanabe 169 2116 3 Sato A. 30 2099 4 Nagase 18 2064 5 Itodani 28 2061 6 Namekata 52 2051 7 Nakamura 24 2048 8 Goda 110 2046 9 Toyoshima 67 2038 10 Kimura 27 2036

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Top 10 players who played the most games

Here are some more ‘Top 10-lists’ from the professional shogi world. The lists are based on the games from April 2014 until March 2015. Thanks to Manabu Terao for publishing them on www.81squareuniverse.com .

Position Name # of games 1 Toyoshima Masayuki 56 2 Habu Yoshiharu 55 3 Sugau Tatsuya 54 4 Goda Masataka 48 5 Sasaki Yuuki 47 Abe Koru 47 7 Kimura Kazuki 46 Nishio Akira 46 Yashiro Wataru 46 10 Fujimori Tetsuya 45

Top 10 players who gained the most wins

Position Name # of wins 1 Sugai Tatsuya 43 2 Habu Yoshiharu 39 3 Toyoshima Masayuki 35 4 Yashiro Wataru 33 5 Nishio Akira 31 Chida Shota 31 Fujimori Tetsuya 31 8 Itodani Tetsuro 30 Yokoyama Hiroaki 30 10 Sato Amahiko 23 Sawada Shingo 23 Sasaki Yuuki 23 Abe Koru 23

Top 10 players who showed the highest winning percentage

Position Name winning percentage 1 Sugai Tatsuya 79,6 % 2 Itodani Tetsuro 76,9 % 3 Chida Shota 73,8 % 4 Yokoyama Hiroaki 73,2 % 5 Sato Amahiko 72,5 % 6 Habu Yoshiharu 72,2 % 7 Yashiro Wataru 71,7 % 8 Inaba Akira 70,3 % 9 Fujimori Tetsuya 68,9 % 10 Matsuo Ayumiu 68,3 %

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Shogi Yearbook 2015 Statistics

Top 10 players who made the longest straight wins

Position Name # of straight wins 1 Yokoyama Hiroaki 13 2 Sugai Tatsuya 12 3 Habu Yoshiharu 11 4 Miura Hiroyuki 10 Sato Amahiko 10 Matsuo Ayumu 10 Inaba Akira 10 Sugai Tatsuya 10 Saito Shintaro 10 10 Yashiki Nobuyuki 9 Tamura Kosuke 9 Nakamura Taichi 9 Oikawa Takuma 9 Fujimori Tetsuya 9

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Shogi Yearbook 2015 Shogi - Schach der Samurai Einführung in das faszinierende japanische Schach

Shogi - Schach der Samurai Einführung in das faszinierende japanische Schach

„Ein umfassendes deutsches Buch über Shogi für Einsteiger!“

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Dieses Buch führt Sie in ein faszinierendes Spiel ein. Neben den Regeln und besonderen Zugmöglichkeiten der Steine werden alle Phasen des Spiels behandelt. Viele Übungen vertiefen das Erlernte. Ein besonderes Augenmerk gilt dem Computer als Hilfsmittel, da frei verfügbare Software individuelles Training ermöglicht und im Internet Tausende von Spielpartnern erreichbar sind. Artikel zur Geschichte und zur Shogiszene runden das Buch ab.

Shogi - Schach der Samurai Einführung in das faszinierende japanische Schach

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