Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

KifubyOpeningStrategy's bookmarks exceed 1000 games

KifubyOpeningStrategy's bookmarks exceed 1000 games. Kifu-for-Java-capable browser will be needed to show and replay each game through the bookmarks.

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Board & Photo live of 2nd game of 49th Oui-sen

Today and tomorrow are the days for the 2nd game of 49th Oui-sen between Oui Fukaura and Challenger Habu. Habu won the 1st game and leads the score in 1-0 before the game. The game started at 9:00am in Japan. The venue of the play is at Hotel Foresta in Aichi Prefecture. You can watch and replay the game through the following pages;

Javascript board

Frequently-updated Photo Lives(Left = camera for Habu)

Fukaura is Sente player in thie game. The thinking time per player is 8 hours and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. It will end tomorrow evening.

Boardlives today

From 10:00am in Japan, following three games of 2nd Asahi Trophy Shogi Open started and available to watch and replay;

Ito Hirobumi(Sente, 6 dan) vs Yauchi Rieko(Joou, Joryuu Meijin) - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

Nakao Toshiyuki(Sente, 5 dan) vs Ishibashi Sachio(Joryu Oui) - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

Takeichi Saburo(Sente, 6 dan) vs Chiba Ryoko(Joryu 3dan) - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

The thinking time per player is 40 minutes and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. The game will end before noon in Japan.

From 10:00 as well, the following game of 21st Ryuo-sen started.

Goda Masataka(Sente, 9 dan) vs Yamasaki Takayuki(7 dan) - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java (Left photo = Goda)

The thinking time per player is 5 hours and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. The game will end in the evening today in Japan.

SHOGI-L is moving to Google Groups from Topica.com

Here is the announcement.

SHOGI-L is moving

I think this transfer is good for the following reasons;

1. Google Groups allows registered members to post not only a text but also a file which means a diagram image, a photo of a tournament and so on can be distributed easily.
2. Various feeds are available to use.
3. You can enjoy stronger search function since it's a Google application.

Only negative point that I can think of immediately is that the archives are located in plural places which makes us more difficult to search the contents in the past. But overall, I think the transfer is a good decision.

Funato won the 14th LPSA one day tournament "MONDAY CUP"

Today the 14th LPSA one day tournament called "MONDAY CUP" was held at LPSA's office in Komagome, Tokyo. It was competed among the 8 players in the form of knock-down tournament. Funato Yoko beat Kitao Madoka, Matsuo Kaori and Ishibashi Sachio. The final game is available to watch and replay through the linked pages below. Funato was Gote player in the final game.

Ustream pre-recorded video (Left = Ishibashi, Right = Funato)
Kifu for Flash
Kifu for Java
LPSA's Official One Day Tournament site(In Japanese)

The opening of this game was Gokigen Nakabisha Ultra quick attack variation. The length of the video is one hour and ten minutes. It will be interesting to watch the video and boardreplay at the same time with opening two browsers if possible.

Number of bookmarked ShogiTesuji positions exceeds 100

The number of bookmarked ShogiTesuji positions exceeds 100. Here is the link to the toppage. All the bookmarked positions need to use Kifu for Java for replaying.

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There are 3 level tags such as "easy", "intermediate" and "complicated"

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ShogiTesuji's bookmarks tagged with "intermediate" on del.icio.us
ShogiTesuji's bookmarks tagged with "complicated" on del.icio.us

I hope you will enjoy and learn lots of Tesujis through the bookmarks and put them into practice of your games. It's fun to apply a Tesuji to an appropriate position.

 

Kolomiyets dominated ESC/WOSC this year

ESC(European Shogi Championship) and WOSC(World Open Shogi Championship) took place on July 10 through 13 in Pardubice, Czech. Ukrainian Artem Kolomiyets won all the shogi tournaments such as Blitz, ESC and WOSC this year. You can see the full results on the following page linked below. This is one of the official pages of Czech Open.

Czech Open 2008 - international chess and games festival - Pardubice 10.-27.7.2008

Apart from tournament results, the remarkable thing this year is that there are many Hungarian players who took part. I think this is the first time for Hungarian players to participate in ESC/WOSC.

 

Another boardlive today - Final 5th game of 79th Kisei-sen

Today is the day for the final 5th game of 79th Kisei-sen between Kisei Sato Yasumitsu and Challenger Habu Yoshiharu. The venu of the match is at Wakatsuki Bettei(in Japanese) in Ito City, Shizuoka prefecture. Before the game, the score is 2-2. The winner of this game will be the next Kisei title holder.

As a result of Furigoma, Sato became Sente player. You can watch and replay the game through the following page linke below;

5th game of 79th Kisei-sen

 

The thinking time per player is 4 hours and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. I think it will end in the evening today since it started at 9:00am in Japan.

Boardlive today - Kubo Toshiaki vs Akutsu Chikara, 21st Ryuo-sen

Today is the day for the 21st Ryuo-sen game between Kubo Toshiaki(8 dan) and Akutsu Chikara(6 dan). As a result of Furigoma, Kubo became Sente player. You can watch and replay it though the following links;

Kifu for Flash (Left photo is Kubo 8dan)
Kifu for Java (Left photo is Kubo 8dan)

It started at 10:00am in Japan. The thinking time per player is 5 hours and less than 60 seconds per move after comsuming it. I think it will end in the evening today.

Habu won 1st game of 49th Oui-sen

On July 14 and 15, the 1st game of 49th Oui-sen 4-win match between Oui Fukaura and Challenger Yoshiharu Habu took place at Hokuten no Oka in Abashiri City of Hokkaido. Habu became Sente player this game as a result of Furigoma and he won it in 97 moves. The opening strategy was itteson-kakugawari(Bishop exchange with Gote's one move delay). It was a very close game until the end.

The diagram below is the resignation one when Sente dropped his Bishop on 2c. The possible variations after that position would be as followings;

K-3a Sx7c+ K-2b B*3a Kx3a G*3b(mate)

K-3a Sx7c+ K-2b B*3a Kx2c G*2b K-1c Gx2a K-2c B-2b+(mate)

K-3a Sx7c+ K-2b B*3a Kx2c G*2b K-3c Px3d Gx3d S-4b= K-4c N*5e(mate)

K-3a Sx7c+ K-2b B*3a K-3c S-4b= Gx4b Sx3d K-4d G*4e(mate)

K-3a Sx7c G*3c G*3b Bx3b+ Kx3b N*4d Gx4d B*4a Kx4a G*4b(mate)

K-3a Sx7c G*3c G*3b Bx3b+ Kx3b N*4d K-3c Px3d Gx3d Sx3d Kx3d B*4e K-2e G-3f(mate)

K-3a Sx7c G*3c G*3b Bx3b+ Kx3b N*4d K-3c Px3d Gx3d Sx3d Kx3d B*4e K-3c G*3d K-2b G-2c K-3a N-3b+(mate)

K-3a Sx7c G*3c G*3b Bx3b+ Kx3b N*4d K-3c Px3d Gx3d Sx3d Kx3d B*4e K-4d G*3d K-4e G-5f K-6d B-6c+(mate)

G*3b Bx3b+ Kx3b N*4d Gx4d B*4a K-3c Sx4d Kx4d G*4e K-3c Gx3d K-2b G-2c K-3a B-3b+(mate, replayable by clicking the arrow in the right direction)

In any case, Gote was hopeless.