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Habu's chess game has been added to Games of the Day of chessbase.com

Habu's chess game has been added to Games of the Day Archive of chessgames.com.

• Games of the Day

Jul-30
Gold General
P Nikolic vs Y Habu, 2007

You can replay the game through the following page.

• Predrag Nikolic vs Yoshiharu Habu (2007) "Gold General"

If you open the page, you can see many chessgames.com users put comments on this game.

I got to know this by receiving an email from Dr. R. Gralla. Here is the copy of it. (Remark by me :Habu lost the Meijin title last June, though he has been already entitled to be Permanent Meijin after his retirement. The current Meijin is Moriuchi. )

YOSHIHARU HABU - ONE OF HIS GAMES OF INTERNATIONAL CHESS HAS BEEN HAILED AS BEING "GAME OF THE DAY JULY 30th, 2011"

By Dr. René Gralla, Hamburg, Germany


Yoshiharu Habu - the life-time Meijin - is the Larger Than Life All-Time-Hero of Strategic Gaming. Yoshiharu Habu is brilliant not only in Shogi, but in International Chess as well.
The mastermind of the US-American web portal Chessgames.com - Mr. Daniel Freeman who is based in Pompano Bech, Florida and who, by trailing the German No. 1 web portal ChessBase.com, is running the No. 2 data bank world-wide on International Chess with nearly 600.000 games that can be put on display and that can be discussed in the forum)- has paid tribute to Yoshiharu Habu's brilliant performance in international chess by hailing one of his games of international chess as being the "GAME OF THE DAY JULY 30th, 2011".

It is a thunderous power play by Yoshiharu who has crushed Bosnian Grandmaster Predrag Nikolic at Bruxelles in 2007 by boldly sacrificing the Queen, the strongest piece in International Chess.

Please turn to the webpage www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1544348

The commentaries in the forum of www.chessgames.com have been enthusiastic: they range from "This is chess, an all time nuggett" (posted by SEVENSEAMAN) to "This is Samurai chess!" (posted by RIVERBEAST).

Therefore these good news are excellent propaganda for the Japanese culture of Strategic Gaming - and thus for SHOGI, in the end.

One more masterpiece by the Master of the Masters, Yoshiharu Habu-Meijin.

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Another Shogi Boardlive today - Maruyama vs Fukaura, semi-final, 23rd Ryuo-sen

There is another shogi boardlive today. It's between 9-dan Maruyama Tadahisa and 9-dan Fukaura Koichi as the semi-final of the 23rd Ryuo-sen challenger decidig toruney. The winner of this game will compete with Kubo in the best-of-three match to decide the challenger. As a result of Furigoma, Maruyama becomes Sente. The game started at 10:00am(JST). Since the allotted thinking time per player is five hours, I think it will end after 10:00pm today. Fukaura traded Bishops with losing one move.

• Kubo vs Fukaura

Here is the official game of the 23rd Ryuo-sen. A chat environment with watching a slightly-deferred-liveboard is ready at 81dojo.

Shogi Boardlive today & Tomorrow - Habu vs Hirose, 3rd game of 52nd Oui-sen

Today and tomorrow are days for the third game of the 52nd Oui-sen best of seven match between Oui Hirose Akihito and Challenger two crown Habu Yoshiharu. Before the game, Hirose leads the score in 2-0. Habu would like to win this game to reduce Hirose's lead. Habu is Sente. The game started at 9:00 am at Grand Park Otaru in Hokkaido. Today is Day 1 which will ends at 6:00pm(JST). The player who has turn to play at the closing time will make his next move sealed.

Hirose is showing his Anama castle in this series for the first time with Gokigen Nakabisha. Some say this is because Ouchi(9-dan) who is famous for Anaguma as well is the official watchman for this game. You can replay and watch it through the following link;

• Habu vs Hirose

Here is the official site of 52nd Oui-sen. The frequently-updating photos of the players are available to watch here (Hirose is the upper).

A chat environment with watching a slightly-deferred-liveboard is ready at 81dojo.

Shogi Boardlive Today - Nakamura Marika vs Nakai Hiroe, 1st Ricoh Cup Joryu Ouza-sen

The following game is available to watch today. It is between Nakamura Marika(Joryu 2-dan) and Nakai Hiroe(Joryu 6-dan) as a quarterfinal of the 1st Ricoh Joryu Ouza-sen. The game started at 10:00am at JSA building in Sendagaya, Tokyo. Since the allotted thinking  time per player is three hours, I think it will end after 4:00pm.

• Nakamura(sente) vs Nakai

Here is the official site of the 1st Ricoh Cup Joryu Ouza-sen.