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Fukaura vs Tobe, 1st round of 6th Daiwa Securities Cup - Shogi Board live now

The following game is available to watch now. It started just now at 8:00pm(JST). Sente is 9-dan Fukaura Koichi while Gote is 6-dan Tobe Makoto due to machine Furigoma. This is a net-tournament. The given time per player is 30 minutes and , after consuming it, each player will have to make a move less than 30 seconds per move. I think this will end within one hour and a half from the start time.

• Fukaura vs Tobe

 Here is the official site of Daiwa Securities Cup.

Nico Nico Live of 5th game of 70th Meijin-sen

I posted the information of the Nico Nico Live of the 5th game of the 7oth Meijin-sen in 81 square universe forum.

Watanabe vs Fujii, Challenger Deciding Match, 53rd Oui-sen - Shogi Boardlive Today

The following game started at 10:00am(JST) today and is available to watch and play through the link shown below. This is a challenger deciding game of the 53rd Oui-sen between Ryuo and Ouza Watanabe Akira and 9-dan Fujii Takeshi. Watanabe became the winner of Red league in 4-1. Fujii passed White league in 4-1 also. The winner of this game will be a challenger against Oui Habu. Fujii was not doing well and got down to Juni-sen B-2 class last business year, though. He seems to gain recovery this business year with the score of 5-2 up to yesterday. There were 10 bouts between them in the past and the score is 6-4 led by Watanabe. Fujii chose Yagura once with Watanabe.

You can replay and watch the game clicking the following link. Since the allotted thinking time per player is four hours, I think it will end after 6:00pm(JST). Watanabe became Sente due to Furigoma.

• Watanabe vs Fujii
  

Here are the official site and the official blog of Oui-sen.

Habu vs Kiriyama, 2nd Round of 20th Tatsujin-sen - Shogi Boardlive Today

The following game is available to watch and play through today. The game started at 10:00am(JST). Habu became Sente as a result of Furigoma. The allotted thinking time per player is three hours. So I think it will end after 4:00pm(JST) today.

• Habu(holding two crown) vs Kiriyama(9-dan)

Though Habu is famous, some readers may not know who Kiriyama is well. So I'm writing something about him briefly. Kiriyama is 64 years old with more than 40 straight years of shogi professional career. He is from Nara prefecture. He had held four titles in total including Kio once and Kisei three times in 80's. He won the prize of the highest winning percentage in the business year 1974 and that of the most winning player in the year 1983, and many more. He is obviously one of the greatest veteran. His playing style used to be defensive when he was younger, but after being matured, he changed it into a pretty aggressive style.

Here is the official site and the official blog of the 20th Tatsujin-sen(in Japanese). And you can watch the game in 81 dojo as well with a chat window just under the virtual board.

Sugai vs Miura, 1st Round of 6th Daiwa Securities Cup - Shogi Boardlive Now

The following game is available to watch and replay now.

• 5-dan Sugai Tatsuya vs 8-dan Miura Hiroyuki

The game started about fifteen minutes ago. The given time per player is 30 minutes and each will have to make a move within less than 60 seconds after the other makes a move. I think it will end in an hour or so from now.

Live of Day 2 of 70th Meijin-sen - Habu vs Moriuchi

At the time of writing this blog, the live is available to watch here. No user registration is required.

• http://www.itmedia.co.jp/live/articles/1205/16/news147.html

It may become unavailable to watch is the source of Nico Nico Live gets too crowded by paid members due to its capacity constraint.

I think the game will end after 7:00pm(JST). The opening the two players chose is Yagura. The commentator 7-dan Akutsu tell that he is in favor of Sente(Habu) now.

Kai vs Satomi, 3rd game of 23rd Joryu Oui-sen - Shogi Boardlive Now

The following game is available to watch on a flash-enabling OS and browser.

• Joryu Oui Kai Tomomi vs Joryu three crown Satomi Kana

This is the third game of 23rd Joryu Oui-sen which started at 9:00am(JST) today. The allotted thinking time per player is four hours so I think it will end around 6:00pm(JST). The venue is The late Ito Denemon's house in Iizuka city, Fukuoka prefecture. Satomi took the lead in 2-1 before the game. Since this series is best-of-five match, Kai will not be able to lose any more game to defend her title.

Here are the official site of Joryu Oui-sen and official blog(in Japanese). And frequently-uploading-shots of each player are available to watch here. The upper photo is for Kai.

I posted five articles today(May 21)

I posted the following five articles today on May 21 outside this blog.

1. The 81-Square Universe • View topic - Photo - unknown variant
2. The 81-Square Universe • View topic - Foreign Shogi Female Victory at a Cup Tournament
3. Polish woman breathes fresh air into traditional world of shogi | Shogi | BoardGameGeek
4. The 81-Square Universe • View topic - Schedule of webcasting boardlives
5. The 81-Square Universe • View topic - 70th Meijin-sen between Meijin Moriuchi and two crown Habu

Toyoshima vs Hashimoto - Shogi Boardlive now

The following game started just now at 8:00pm(JST). The given time per player is 30 minutes and after that each will have to make a move less than 30 seconds per move. So I think it will end about one hour and a half from the start time.

• 7-dan Toyoshima Masayuki vs 8-dan Hashimoto Takanori

Boardlives Tomorrow - the first elimination, 2nd Ricoh Cup Joryu Ouza-sen

The following games will be available to watch and play through tomorrow. The given thinking time per player is 40 minutes and, after consuming it, each player will have to make a move less than 60 seconds per move which is called "Ippun Shogi".

To start at 10:00am(JST)

• Joryu-shodan Murota Io vs Joryu-shodan Muroya Yuki
• Yamada Kumi vs Joryu 2-dan Honda Sayuri
• Joryu-2dan Hasegawa Yuuki vs Joryu-shodan Nakakura Akiko Rematch due to Repetition(Sennichite)http://live.shogi.or.jp/joryu_ouza/kifu/2/joryu_ouza201205190302.html

• Joryu-3danTakamure Sachiko vs Ama Karolina Styczyńska
• Joryu-3kyu Aikawa Haruka vs Ama Kamakura Chihiro
• Joryu-shodan Kitao Madoka vs Ama Hori Ayano

To start at 4:00pm(JST)

• Winners' match 1
• Winners' match 2
• Winners' match 3