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Fukaura vs Tobe, 1st round of 6th Daiwa Securities Cup - Shogi Board live now

The following game is available to watch now. It started just now at 8:00pm(JST). Sente is 9-dan Fukaura Koichi while Gote is 6-dan Tobe Makoto due to machine Furigoma. This is a net-tournament. The given time per player is 30 minutes and , after consuming it, each player will have to make a move less than 30 seconds per move. I think this will end within one hour and a half from the start time.

• Fukaura vs Tobe

 Here is the official site of Daiwa Securities Cup.

Watanabe vs Fujii, Challenger Deciding Match, 53rd Oui-sen - Shogi Boardlive Today

The following game started at 10:00am(JST) today and is available to watch and play through the link shown below. This is a challenger deciding game of the 53rd Oui-sen between Ryuo and Ouza Watanabe Akira and 9-dan Fujii Takeshi. Watanabe became the winner of Red league in 4-1. Fujii passed White league in 4-1 also. The winner of this game will be a challenger against Oui Habu. Fujii was not doing well and got down to Juni-sen B-2 class last business year, though. He seems to gain recovery this business year with the score of 5-2 up to yesterday. There were 10 bouts between them in the past and the score is 6-4 led by Watanabe. Fujii chose Yagura once with Watanabe.

You can replay and watch the game clicking the following link. Since the allotted thinking time per player is four hours, I think it will end after 6:00pm(JST). Watanabe became Sente due to Furigoma.

• Watanabe vs Fujii
  

Here are the official site and the official blog of Oui-sen.

Habu vs Kiriyama, 2nd Round of 20th Tatsujin-sen - Shogi Boardlive Today

The following game is available to watch and play through today. The game started at 10:00am(JST). Habu became Sente as a result of Furigoma. The allotted thinking time per player is three hours. So I think it will end after 4:00pm(JST) today.

• Habu(holding two crown) vs Kiriyama(9-dan)

Though Habu is famous, some readers may not know who Kiriyama is well. So I'm writing something about him briefly. Kiriyama is 64 years old with more than 40 straight years of shogi professional career. He is from Nara prefecture. He had held four titles in total including Kio once and Kisei three times in 80's. He won the prize of the highest winning percentage in the business year 1974 and that of the most winning player in the year 1983, and many more. He is obviously one of the greatest veteran. His playing style used to be defensive when he was younger, but after being matured, he changed it into a pretty aggressive style.

Here is the official site and the official blog of the 20th Tatsujin-sen(in Japanese). And you can watch the game in 81 dojo as well with a chat window just under the virtual board.

Sugai vs Miura, 1st Round of 6th Daiwa Securities Cup - Shogi Boardlive Now

The following game is available to watch and replay now.

• 5-dan Sugai Tatsuya vs 8-dan Miura Hiroyuki

The game started about fifteen minutes ago. The given time per player is 30 minutes and each will have to make a move within less than 60 seconds after the other makes a move. I think it will end in an hour or so from now.

Boardlives Tomorrow - the first elimination, 2nd Ricoh Cup Joryu Ouza-sen

The following games will be available to watch and play through tomorrow. The given thinking time per player is 40 minutes and, after consuming it, each player will have to make a move less than 60 seconds per move which is called "Ippun Shogi".

To start at 10:00am(JST)

• Joryu-shodan Murota Io vs Joryu-shodan Muroya Yuki
• Yamada Kumi vs Joryu 2-dan Honda Sayuri
• Joryu-2dan Hasegawa Yuuki vs Joryu-shodan Nakakura Akiko Rematch due to Repetition(Sennichite)http://live.shogi.or.jp/joryu_ouza/kifu/2/joryu_ouza201205190302.html

• Joryu-3danTakamure Sachiko vs Ama Karolina Styczyńska
• Joryu-3kyu Aikawa Haruka vs Ama Kamakura Chihiro
• Joryu-shodan Kitao Madoka vs Ama Hori Ayano

To start at 4:00pm(JST)

• Winners' match 1
• Winners' match 2
• Winners' match 3

 

Schedule of webcasting boardlives

I posted the updates for this week in the relevant thread of 81 square universe forum.

Habu vs Nakamura, 2nd game of 1st round of 6th Daiwa Securities Cup - Shogi Boardlive now

The following game is available to watch now. It started just now at 8:00pm(JST). Since the given thinking time per player is 30 minutes and, after consuming it, each player will have to make a move less than 30 seconds, I think this will end within one hour and a half from the start time. You can watch and play through the game clicking the following link.

• 2 crown Habu Yoshiharu(Sente) vs -dan 6Nakamura Taichi

Schedule of Webcasting Boardlives(5/7~)

I posted the schedule on 81 square universe forum. Please make a plan to watch them referring to the following link.

• The 81-Square Universe • View topic - Schedule of webcasting boardlives

Naito Kunio vs Tanigawa Koji, Tatsujin-sen - Shogi Boardlive Now

You can watch the game between Naiito Kunio(9-dan) and Tanigawa Koji(9-dan) now. It's a first round game of the 20th Tatsujin-sen knock-out tournament. It's a kind of senior tourney where the selected ten players at the age of forty or older compete.

Naito is seventy-two years old. He got various titles including Kisei and Oui. He became a professional player in 1958. His score to yesterday is 1122 - 943. Tanigawa turned fifty this April. He is entitled to be the 17th Permanent Meijin since he took Meijin-title for more than five terms in total. Also he held the other six major titles at least once.

The game started at 9:00am(JST).  The allotted thinking time per player is three hours and there will be lunch with time-off between 0:00pm and 1:00pm(JST). So I think the game will end after 4:00pm(JST). You can watch and replay the game through the following link.

• Naito vs Tanigawa

Naito is playing Sente and he chose Yokofutori(Side Pawn) opening. Unlike current popular development, he showed his intention to move his Rook to the 8th file with pushing his 7th file pawn to 7e, but Tanigawa did not like it by pushing his pawn on that file to 7d at the 26th move. I'm looking forward to seeing Naito's response to the resistance.

Sato vs Ohishi, Openig game of 6th Daiwa Secirities Cup - Boardlive Now

The following game is available to watch now. The allotted thinking time per player is 30 minutes and each player will have to make a move less than 30 seconds per move after consuming it.

• Sato Yasumitsu(9 dan) vs Ohishi Tadashi(4 dan)

The game will end within one and a half from the start time.