The 1st game of 36th Joryu-Meijini-sen between Joryu Meijin Shimizu vs Challenger Kurashiki Tohka just started at 9:00am at Hotel Mt. Fuji near the Lake Yamanaka which is famous for a summer resort in Yamanashi prefecture. As a result of Furigoma, Satomi became Sente. She became the challenger after beating Joryu-2dan Iwane in the play-off. The allotted thinking time per player is three hours and each will have to make a move less than sixty seconds per move. You may replay the game through the link below;
The official site of the series(in Japanese) is here. And the official blog with lots of photos is here.
Wow, great job Satomi! Go for it :)
Posted by: Kolo | January 25, 2010 at 06:52 AM