The square lines of Shogi/Igo board is marked by a Japanese sword in the traditional way. Real quality boards must be lined in such way. The method is called "Tachimemori". You may watch the video which shows how to do it linked below;
Thinking time per player is 30 minutes and 60 seconds byoyomi after consuming it. So the game is to be finished in one hour and some minutes after the starting time.
Nichiresu Invitation Cup will be broadcasted on live using USTREAM. Here is the dates of the first round. You can see the live video on time here.
June 22 10:00am --- Nakakura Akiko vs Fujita Maiko June 22 2:00pm --- Yamashita Kazuko vs Kitao Madoka July 1 6:00pm --- Takojima Akiko vs Matsuo Kaori July 6 2:00pm --- Fujimori Natsuko vs Nakakura Hiromi July 9 6:00pm --- Kano Tamao vs Oba Miki July 16 6:00pm --- Kanda Mayumi vs Shimai Saori
Yesterday the match between Takojima Akiko(Joryu 5 dan) vs Matsuo Kaori(Joryu Shodan) took place. It was a first round of NRS tournament and Takojima won it in 130 moves. If you have enough bandwidth in connecting to the internet, it will be fun to open two browser windows to compare the video with the board replay from time to time.
The game started at 6:00pm in Japan to end at 8:11. Thinking time per player is 30 minutes and after consuming it a player should make a move in less than 60 seconds. Takojima consumed the thinking time at 50th move and so did Matsuo at 64th move.
On 10:00am(Japan Time), the match between Nakakura Akiko and Fujita Maiko started. On 2:00pm, the match between Yamashita Kazuko and Kitao Madoka will start. You can see the videos thorugh the page linked below;
Thinking time per player is 30 minutes and 3060 seconds byoyomi after consuming it. So the game is to be finished in one hour and some minutes after the starting time.
Nichiresu Invitation Cup will be broadcasted on live using USTREAM. Here is the dates of the first round.
June 22 10:00am --- Nakakura Akiko vs Fujita Maiko June 22 2:00pm --- Yamashita Kazuko vs Kitao Madoka July 1 6:00pm --- Takojima Akiko vs Matsuo Kaori July 6 2:00pm --- Fujimori Natsuko vs Nakakura Hiromi July 9 6:00pm --- Kano Tamao vs Oba Miki July 16 6:00pm --- Kanda Mayumi vs Shimai Saori
The 6th game started at 9:00am today at Tendo Hotel in Tendo City, Yamagata prefecture. Habu is Sente player and his first move was P-2f advancing the Rook pawn instead of P-7f opening the diagonal line of Bishop.
This is the video of the start of the game. The right player is Meijin Moriuchi who cannot lose a game to defend the title. The game will end tomorrow evening.
The 4th game of 66th Meijin-sen between Meijin Moriuchi and Challenger Habu started at 9:00am today. It is a two-day game so I think it will end tomorrow evening. Before the game, the score is in 2-1 led by Habu. Habu is Sente player in this game. The video below is the start of the game. Official watchman is Kiriyama Kiyozumi(9 dan). Habu's first move was P-7f while Moriuchi's was P-3d.
Today is the day for the 4th
game of 1st Mynavi Joshi Open 3-win match between Kai Tomomi
(Joryu 2 dan) and Yauchi Rieko(Joryu Meijin) . You can watch and replay the game through the
linked page below(Java-capable browser required);
Yauchi is Sente(black) in this game. The game started at 10:00am(Japan Time). The thinking time per
player is 3 hours and 60 second byoyomi after consuming it, so I think
it will end before evening in Japan today.
You can watch live pictures by the webcameras beside the players and
many photos related to this game to be uploaded frequently through the
following pages.
This page is to be updated from time to time when a new video of commentary show in the afternoon of Day 2 of 3rd game of 66th Meijinsen becomes available.
Here is the video #1 of Commentary Show using a big board in the afternoon of Day 2. Left = Abe Takashi(8 dan), Right = Fukaura Koichi(Oui). They were talking about unpredictable Habu's P-5e and Moriuchi's K-6h and P-8f.
Here is the video #2 of Commentary Show
Here is #3. Left = Muranaka Shuji(4 dan), right = Hashimoto Takanori(7 dan). According to them, Moriuchi leads the position.
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