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Hirohiigo is broadcasting his Shogi Commentary show about today's Osho-sen final round game of 9-dan Sato vs 5-dan Toyoshima. Please give it a try. He said he would broadcast it to the end unless he had any technical problem which means nine hour marathon since the allotted thinking time per player is four hours.

 

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Boardlives toady - Final round, 60th Osho-sen chellenger deciding league

These three games will start at 10:00am today. The allotted thinking time per player is four hours. So I think it will end around 7:00 - 8:00pm(Japan time).

• 9-dan Sato Yasumitsu vs 5-dan Toyoshima Masayuki
• Meijin Habu Yoshiharu vs 9-dan Fukaura Koichi
• 9-dan Moriuchi Toshiyuki vs Ryuo Watanabe Akira

 The league consists of the seven players. The lowest three cannot survive to remain in the league for the next term and will have to participate in the preliminary tournament. After the 6th round finished, each player's score is as following;

1. 9-dan Sato Yasumitsu 4-1 (Former rank = 2)
2. 5-dan Toyoshima Masayuki 4-1 (5)
3. Ryuo Watanabe Akira 3-2 (5)
4. 8-dan Miura Hiroyuki 3-3 (5)
5. Meijin Habu Yoshiharu 2-3 (1)
6. 9-dan Fukaura Koichi 2-3 (3)
7. 9-dan Moriuci Toshiyuki 0-5 (4)

The winner of the game of Sato vs Toyoshima will be the challenger against Osho Kubo Toshiaki. It's very clear. On the other hand, survival race is a bit confusing. Though only Moriuchi is fixed to fall from the league, the other four will be at stake whether to survive or not in this final round. The winner of Habu and Moriuchi will survive and the loser will fall. Watanabe will survive if he beat Moriuchi today, but he must compete a supplemental survival match with Miura on a later day if Moriuchi defeats him since both with 3-3 with the same former rank of fifth place. So all the games are must-see.

The official page of Osho-sen is here(in Japanese).

Boardlive today and tomorrow - Watanabe vs Habu, 4th game of 23rd Ryuo-sen

Today and tomorrow are the days for 4th game of 23rd Ryuo-sen between Ryuo Watanabe and Meijin Habu. The venue is at Kakurinji in Hyogo prefecture. Before the game, Watanabe led the score in 2-0. Habu is Sente for this game. You can watch and replay the game on the virtual board linked below;

• Habu vs Watanabe tim
  

The allotted thinking time per player is eight hours. Day 1 will close at 6:00pm and Day 2 will start at 9:00am tomorrow(Japan time).

The official Ryuo-sen site is here. You can see lots of relevant photos on the official blog as well.

81-dojo is enhancing multi-language function

81-Dojo, an on-line shogi server where you can play shogi, is enhancing  its multi-language function which you can choose on its login page. Here is the screenshoto of it at http://www.81squareuniverse.com/dojo/client.html

Language choice button exists under the box for Password input. English, Japanese, Chinese, French, Polish and Swedish are available now and the supported language will be increasing thanks to volunteers for each language.

FESA website has been renewed

Yesterday I noticed that the FESA's website has been renewed. I feel it becomes nicer. If it generates feed for aggregators, it will be perfect. FESA means Federation of European Shogi Association. It supplies information about coming tournament and results in the past, rating of players, member countries and so on.

• FESA home page - Home
  

I received an email report about the tournament held on Nov.13 in Ludwigshafen, Germany

I received an email report about the tournament held on November 13 in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

By Dr. Rene Gralla, Hamburg (Germany)

That has been one of the biggest events of SHOGI in Europe since many years: 44 participants have competed during the "3rd Herbst One Day Ludwigshafen" in Germany on November 13th, 2010, and that as been a record turnout. Not enough with that: The 3rd edition of that big tournament in autumn (meaning "Herbst" in German language) has seen a premiere this year: the 1st Youth SHOGI Championship of Germany. 26 ambitious kids have competed in the industrial city south of Frankfurt/Main, and the winner has been Peter Pham from the local club of Ludwigshafen.

The 2nd Ladies' SHOGI Championship of Germany 2010 has been won by title-holder Kirstin Auburger (Ludwigshafen). From the first to the last round of the Open Tournament, Thomas Leiter 2-Dan has kept his pursuers at distance, and the Champion from Michelstadt got 1st place.
Nationwide German press has extensively covered the SHOGI tournament. The Mannheim-based MANNHEIMER MORGEN has published a lengthy feature:
www.morgenweb.de/region/ludwigshafen/artikel/20101115_mmm0000000835849.html
And the Berlin-based daily NEUES DEUTSCHLAND has published an interview with 8-years-old LEONARD ORSCHIEDT:
www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/184530.man-muss-nur-etwas-genauer-hinsehen.html
The young talent is one of the sons of tournament organizer Oliver Orschiedt.

Leo Orschiedt - who has been the darling of the press during the 2nd YINGDE CUP at Shanghai/People's Republic of China in 2009 - has now got 3rd place in the U10-competition at Ludwigshafen 2010. The thrilling tournament has been a successful test run for next year's European SHOGI Championship from July 14th to July 17th, 2011 at Ludwigshafen, Germany. The European SHOGI Championship will be one of the highlights of that up-coming Year of Jubilee 2011 that commemorates 150 years of friendship between Germany and Japan. More information:
http://shoginet.de/turnierberichte/35-grand-prix/84-herbst-one-day-2010.html

A golden opportunity of watching shog lives in Tokyo on Nov. 23

Let's meet at the exit of JR Sendagaya station at 2:45pm on November 23 and walk to nearby Tokyo  Metropolitan Gymnasium to watch shogi lives of the final of JT Nihon  Series between Meijin Habu Yoshiharu and 7-dan Yamasaki Takayuki as well as the two finals of JT Nihon Series elemantary schoolers. Since all the games are something like blitz, we can enjoy watching three shogi live games during the coming three hours. Please let me know in the comment field if you will join.

For more information of JT Nihon Series, please refer to the following page(in Japanese).

http://www.jti.co.jp/knowledge/shogi/professional/2010/final/index.html

 

HIDETCHI uploaded a new video about 3rd game of 23rd Ryuo-sen

Here it is.

 

Boardlive today and tomorrow - Watanabe vs Habu, 3rd game of 23rd Ryuo-sen

Today and tomorrow are the days for third game of 23rd Ryuo-sen best of seven match between Ryuo Watanabe and Meijin habu.  The game started at 9:00am at Tokachigawa Onsen Daiichi Hotel in Hokkaido. Watanabe is Sente for this game. The allotted thinking time per player is eight hours per player. I think it will end around 7:00pm tomorrow(Japan time). Before the game, Watanabe lead the match in 2-0.  You can replay and watch the game through the link below;

• Watanabe vs Habu

The official site of 23rd Ryuo-sen is here.

Boardlives today - three games of 4th Asahi Trophy Shogi open

The following two games are available to watch now. They started at 10:00am today. The allotted thinking time per player is 40 minutes.

• 8-dan Senzaki Manabu vs 9-dan Sato Yasumitsu
• 4-dan Tanaka Yuichi vs 8-dan Suzuki Daisuke

The winners of the above will compete each other from 2:00pm.

• Senzaki or Sato vs Tanaka or Suzuki