Today is the day for the Play-Off of 51st Oui-sen White league between Meijin Habu and 6-dan Tobe. Both completed the White league with the score of 4-1. That's why this play-off are being played. The winner of this game will play the challenger deciding match with 5-dan Hirose, the winner of Red league to compete to become the challenger against Oui Fukaura.
The game started at 10:00am. As a result of Furigoma, Habu became Sente. The opening strategy is Tobe's Gokigen Nakabisha as many expected. The allotted thinking time per player is 4 hours and each will have to make a move less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. So the game is expected to end at night in Japan.
You can watch and replay the game through the virtual board here.
Tobe is 23 years old and younger than Ryuo Watanabe Akira. Whether he will be another young star or not draws people's attention .
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