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Boardlive today - Shimizu vs Satomi, 3rd game of 36th Joryu-Meijini-sen

The 3rd game of 36th Joryu-Meijini-sen between Joryu Meijin Shimizu vs Challenger Kurashiki Tohka Satomi started at 9:00am at Tokyo Shogi Kaikan(JSA's Building), in Tokyo.  Satomi is Sente in this game. The allotted thinking time per player is three hours and each will have to make a move less than sixty seconds per move after consuming it. You may replay the game through the link below;

• Shimizu(Sente) vs Satomi

The official site of the series(in Japanese) is here. And the official blog with lots of photos is here.

A TV in china seemed to cover the 1st game of 35th Kio-sen held in Sanghai on Feb. 5

I found the following video today. It's apparently about the captioned game and a shogi tournament for children held in a parallel manner.

HIDETCHI uploaded a annotation video about the 1st game of 35th Kio-sen

HIDETCHI uploaded a annotation video about the 1st game of 35th Kio-sen between Kio Kubo Toshiaki and Challenger 9-dan Sato Yasumitsu. Here it is.

Board and Ustream live now - Funato vs Ishibashi, 2nd Tenga-sen

This game started at 9:00 in Tokyo today. Sente is Joryu-2dan Funato while Gote is Joryu-4dan Ishibashi. The allotted thinking time per player is 2 hours and each will have to make a move less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it.

• Virtual Board Live(Funato vs Ishibashi)

Online TV Shows by Ustream

Shogi Boardlive today - Kio Kubo vs Challenger Sato, 1st game of 35th Kio-sen

Today is the day for the first game of the 35th Kio-sen. 9-dan Sato Yasumitsu became the challenger against Kio Kubo Toshiaki by beating 7-dan Yamasaki Takayuki at the challenger-deciding match last December. The venue of the game is at Lexington Plaza Mingde Shanghai in China. It will start soon at 10:00am(Japan Time). Which to play first will be decided by the five pawn toss(Furigoma) just before the start of the game. You may watch and repay the game thought the following link.

• Kio Kubo vs 9-dan Sato (Official virtual board)

The allotted thinking time per player is four hours and each will have to make a move less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it.

Official blog of Kio-sen is here. There are and will be lots of photos of the game. And the game will be covered by my twitter and may be covered by Ki-ou Blog @ 81-Square Universe so please check them frequently. And http://groups.google.com/group/shogi-l/browse_thread/thread/82346f66180c46d2/5ea03c478a07ef2e?show_docid=5ea03c478a07ef2e&pli=1 is information about IRC chat about the game.

A video titled gta sa "GROVE SHOGI" MOD

I'm at a loss how I felt about the video. But it has something fascinating. gta sa stands for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas which seems a videogame.  Anyway, the game is Suzuki Style Ishida-ryu Sanganbisha though it's hard to follow since there are no vertical and horizontal lines to form each square.