Today is the day for the 5th game of 33rd Kio-sen 3-win match between Kio Sato Yasumitsu and Challenger Habu Yoshiharu(2 crowns). Sato became a Sente(black) player as a result of Furigoma. The thinking time per player is 4 hours and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. I think it will end early this evening. You can replay and watch the game through the linked page below;
Different from the former 4 games, the opening strategy of this game is Yagura s3g. At the 48th move, there were 4 games which had the same position in Kifu Database as linked below. All the games were won by Sente. I wonder why Habu chose this position. Does he have a new idea?
Kukuchi Yuta vs Horiguchi Kazushiza (August 9 2004)
Moriuchi Toshiyuki vs Kobayashi Hiroshi (July 30 2002)
Minami Yoshikazu vs Fujiwara Naoya (June 30 1999)
Senzaki Manabu vs Suzuki Teruhiko (January 29 1993)
The following is the link to the official blog of the 5th game. You may watch many photos of the game here.
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