Today is Day 1 of the 1st game of 53rd Oui-sen best of seven match between Oui Habu Yoshiharu and 9-dan Fujii Takeshi. A game of this series will be played in two days. The allotted thinking time per player is eight hours which is equivalent to Ryuo-sen best of seven match. The venue of the first game is at Asama Onsen Hotel Omoto in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture. As a result of Furigoma, Habu became Sente for the first, third and fifth games while Fujii is supposed to play as Sente for the second, fourth, and sixth games. You can watch and replay the game through the following link;
Many people drew attention Fujii's fourth move right after he became Gote(White) in this game whether he would block his Bishop's diagonal or move to the Rook to the fourth file. Fujii's choice today was the latter. It went to Bishop Exchange and Fourth file Rook.
Here are the official site of the 53rd Oui-sen and the official blog.
For the details of the schedule this best of seven match, please refer to this post.
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