Chica Umino, who is famous as the author of "Honey and Clover(Hachimitsu to Clover) started her new series of romance story centering the shogi world last Friday. It's on Young Animal magazine which is to be published twice a month. You can also refer to the news titled Chika Umino, Kazuhiro Kumagai, Shokotan's Newest Manga on Anime News Network.
According to Chapter 1, The name of the main character is Rei Kiriyama. He is seventeen year old and a professional shogi player who belongs to C1 class of Juni-sen. He gets up in his room near Sumida River in tokyo and leaves for Sendagaya where Shogi Kaikan(hall) is located in order to play a professional game. The date seems on June 8 since there is a scene that the date in the calender is circled. Rei wins the game. You may see the resignation diagram of the game here.
The position of resignation is identical to the position of the 8th game of 34th Meijin-sen between Meijin Nakahara and Challenger Ouchi(8 dan, at that time) held in 1975.
Seventeen years old in C1 class means he becomes a professional players very early. I think Rei Kiriyama will be a big player later in the story like Hifumi Kato, Koji Tanigawa, Yoshiharu Habu and Akira Watanabe who became professional players before they graduated junior high school.
One more trivial thing. Nakahara took Meijin from Oyama on June 8 1972. What a coincidence!
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