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.
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