Today is the day for the 1st game of 21st Ryuo-sen Challenger deciding 2-win match between Habu Yorhiharu(4 crowns incl. Meijin) and Kimura Kazuki(8 dan). It started at 10:00 am. Habu became Sente player as a result of Furigoma. The opening strategy is Yagura. You can watch and replay the game through either of the pages linked below;
Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java(The links were corrected at 9:45 Japan Time on August 30. They were wrongly linked to the games between Habu and Fukaura of August 19)
The thinking time per player is 5 hours and less than 60 seconds per move after comsuming it. The game will end in the evening today in Japan. The toppage of Ryuo-sen is linked below. You can see the photo of the players.The left player is Habu.
The winner of this 2-win match will be the challenger against Ryuo Watanabe Akira.
The schedule of the 2-win match is as below;
- 1st game - August 29(Today), at Sendagaya(Tokyo Shogi Hall of JSA)
- 2nd game - September 3, at Sendagaya(Tokyo Shogi Hall of JSA)
- 3rd game in case that the score is tied in 1-1 - September 12, at Sendagaya(Tokyo Shogi Hall of JSA)
Hi Takodori,
may I kindly ask you to check the links for the kifu please? I assume they have been the links for Maruyama -vs Habu on august 19th.
regards
Marc
Posted by: marcchan | August 30, 2008 at 04:07 AM
Sorry, I just found the correct one:
http://live3.shogi.or.jp/ryuou/kifu/080829.html
Habu won in 191 moves.
regards
Marc
Posted by: marcchan | August 30, 2008 at 04:09 AM
> marcchan,
Thanks for pointing out the links were wrong and sorry for any inconvenience caused. They are now corrected.
Posted by: takodori | August 30, 2008 at 09:52 AM