Today is the day for the first game of the final best of three match of the 43rd Rookie King Tournament. It has been competed among players under 26 and 6-dan、 and some 3-dan shoreikai players in the form of knockouts. Both beat four players to come to this stage. Nagase displays good score so far today. His winning percentage of this business year to date is .800. On the other hand, Fujimori's score this year is 11-10. So many expects Nagase's win. Let's see what happen in the series.
The first game started at 10:00am at Tokyo Shogi Kaikan in Sendagaya, Tokyo. As a result of Furigoma, Nagase became Sente. You can watch and replay the game on the following liveboard.
Here are the links to the official site and official blog(in Japanese).
The allotted thinking time per player is three hours. So it is expected to end at about 6:00pm(JST).
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