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Source: Reijer Grimbergen's translated
highlights of the week from the magazine Shukan Shogi, posted
to the Shogi-list. If
you have any interest in Shogi at all, subscribe at once to the Shogi
e-mail list! You can get information about this at Pieter
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For news about top events, annotated
games and player profiles, there is no better source in English
than Reijer
Grimbergen's site.
The stars match
Habu and Tanigawa are clearly the stars of this summer. They are
fighting for both the Oi and the Kisei title and maybe for the Oza title as well (if Tanigawa can beat Fujii in the challenger final). So far this season, Habu is the only one who has been able to stop Tanigawa. All the games that Tanigawa has lost so far have been against Habu. Habu desperately needed another stop in game 4 of the Kisei match or Tanigawa would win the match
3-1 and end Habu's hopes of adding a fifth crown to the titles he is already holding. Habu indeed won the game, but Tanigawa must feel a little unfortunate as he lost the game without a single clear mistake. It seems his opening was a little suspect and that was enough for Habu to win, even though Tanigawa managed to get very close in the end:
See the text version of the game with comments or play through the game in a Java viewer.
Other shogi news
Ryu-o semi-finals
Fighting spirit in the Junisen A class
Mud fight in B1 class
Interesting times in B2
Junisen C1 class
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