Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

Watanabe vs Maruyama, 1st game of 25th Ryuo-sen - Shogi Boardlive Today & Tomorrow

The first game of the 25th Ryuo-sen started at 9:00am at Takinoyu in Tendo City, Yamagata prefecture. Today is Day 1. It is expected to end around 6:00pm tomorrow. You can find information about the links to the boardlive and live webcast in the lower part of this page.

Kubo vs Maruyama, Semi-Final of JT Nihon Series - Shogi Boardlive Now

The following game started just now and is expected to end within one hour and a half.

• 9-dan Kubo Toshiaki vs 9-dan Maruyama Tadahisa

Nagase vs Fujimori, First Game of 43rd Rookie King Final - Shogi Boardlive Today

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.

• 5-dan Nagase Takuya vs 4-dan Fujimori Tetsuya

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).

Habu has come back to Ouza

Habu has come back to Ouza beating Watanabe in 3-1 and 1 sennichite(repetition) in the 6oth Ouza-sen. The details can be found in the following thread of 81 square universe forum.

• 60th Ouza-sen

70th Juni-sen updates(5th Round of B2 and C1)

I posted the updates on the captioned round games in the thread for the topic of 81 square universe forum. Please click the link below if you are interested.

• http://forum.81squareuniverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=10166#p10166

Watanabe vs Habu, 4th game of 60th Ouza-sen - Shogi Live and Webcast today

Today is the day for the fourth game of the 60th Ouza-sen best of five match between Ouza Watanabe and two crown Habu. The venue is Jinya in Hatano Ciry, Kanagawa prefecture. The game started at 9:00am(JST). The following live broadcasts and webcasting boardlive are available to watch. The expected end time of the game is sometime after 9:00pm(JST) today.

　Rematch occurs due to Sennichite(Repetition) - http://live.shogi.or.jp/ouza/kifu/60/ouza201210030102.html

• Nico Live Mirror(No user registration required)
• Nico Live(User registration required. Paid members have priority when the sever is too crowded.)
• Liveboard(Sente is Watanabe)

Surprisingly, Habu moved his Rook to the third file at the second move without pushing any Pawn. However, it went like an traditional Ibisha vs Furibisha game about two decades ago or so since the early Rook move without blocking Bishop diagonal seemed to make Watanabe give up choosing Anaguma. Actually, the position at the 41st move is idendical to that of a 2nd Ryuo-sen game between Tanigawa and Habu played in 1990.

Monthly flash ELOlist based on a fan-site(September End, 2012)

I posted a captioned list in 81 square universe forum.

• Monthly flash ELOlist based on a fan-site

Toyoshima Masayuki shows the highest point among the 7-dan players at the fifth place, downed from the forth last month.Itodani Tetsuro occupies the fourteenth place which is the highest among the 6-dan players, downed from the twelfth last month. 6-dan Nakamura Taichi is in the 17th place, one up.The top 5-dan player is Sugai Tatsuya in the 18th place. Ohishi Tadashi shows the highest point among the 4-dan players in the 3eth place, one up.5-dan Funae Kohei, who has been announced as a Deno-sen(5x5 human-machine match) player, occupied the 38th place, down three.

If you are interested in seeing the complete list, please click the link above.

Nakai vs Yauchi, Final of Challenger Deciding Knockouts of 20th Kurashiki-Tohka-sen - Shogi Boardlive Today

The following game started at 10:00am(JST) and available to watch.

• Joryu 6-dan Nakai Hiroe vs Joryu 4-dan Yauchi Rieko

This is the final of the 20th Oyama Cup Kurashiki Tohka-sen challenger deciding knockouts. The winner will become the challenger against Kurashiki-Toka Satomi Kana. The expected end time is around 2:00pm(JST).

Here are the official site and the official blog(both in Japanese).