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Boardlive now - Habu vs Hirose, Challenger Deciding Match of 51st Oui-sen.

Today is the day for the challenger deciding match of 51st Oui-sen. The pairing is Meijin Habu vs 5-dan Hirose. As a result of Furigoma, Hirose became Sente. The game started at 10:00am in Shogi Kaikan in Sendagaya, Tokyo. The allotted thinking time per player is four hours and each will have to make a move less than 60 seconds after consuming it. Hirose transferred his Rook to the 6th file and built Anaguma. Habu chose a slow opening and built Anaguma, too. You may watch and replay the game thorough either of the board linked below;

• Flash
• Java

Before the game, Habu made consecutive seven victories while youngster Hirose won three games in a row. They did not compete together in a official game. But Hirose beat Habu in an unofficial game last year. So which will win this game draws people's attention very much.

HIDETCHi uploaded the annotation video of 1st game of 81st Kisei-sen

HIDETCHI uploaded the annotation video of 1st game of 81st Kisei-sen best of five match played on June 8 2010.

Boardlive today - Kisei Habu vs Oui Fukaura, 1st game of 81st Kisei-sen

Today is the day for the first game of 81st Kisei-sen best of five match between Kisei Habu and Oui Fukaura. The venue of this game is TamamineSanso in Shimane Prefecture. As a result of Furigoma, Habu became Sente. The game started at 9:00am. The allotted thinking time per player is four hours. If each player consume it, then he will have to make a move less than 60 seconds per move. You may replay and watch the game on the virtual board linked below;

• Habu vs Fukaura

Please follow my twitter account if you are interested in my tweets on each move.

Gpsshogi_en also follows the game. You can see its evaluation value and readings by each move.

If you understand Japanese, the experimental commentary show by 5-dan Nishio will be on Ustreamlive from 16:00pm. 

The official page of 81st Kisei-sen is here.(In Japanese).

Boardlive today - Shimizu vs Kai, 3rd game of 21st Joryu Oui-sen

The game between Joryu oui Shimizu and Queen Kai  started at 9:00am at Ito Denemon's house in Iiduka Ciry, Fukuoka prefecture. Before the game, Kai leads the score in 2-0. You may watch and replay the game through the link below;

• Kai(Sente)vs Shimizu

The allotted thinking time per player is four hours. It will end in one or two hours from now. And the frequently updated photos of both players are available to watch here (Upper = Shimizu, Lower = Kai).

Boardlive now - Play-off of 51st Oui-sen White League, Habu vs Tobe

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.

• Habu vs Tobe

Tobe is 23 years old and younger than Ryuo Watanabe Akira. Whether he will be another young star or not draws people's attention .