Today is the day for the first 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 will start at 10:00am. It's the first time that a King of Rookies-sen game is to be available to watch in the form of a boardlive. Here are the links.
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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