Today is the day for the second game of 40th King of Rookies-sen best of three match between Hirose Akihito(5 dan, 22 years old) and Nakamura Taichi(4 dan, 21 years old). The game started at 10:00am. Here are the links. Hirose is Sente in this game. The allotted thinking time per player is three hours and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it.
The official blog is in Japanese here. Both are professional players who are students of Waseda University. Nakamura is an AISEP member as well.
The King of Rookies-sen U-26(Shinjinoh-sen Under 26) is the tournament which is limited to the professional players who is under 5 dan and 26 years old, Shoreikai 3 dan players with good performance, and Joryu(Ladies) profesional players under 26 years old.
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Posted by: Polprav | October 20, 2009 at 09:46 PM