Final: Chess IM vs. young Shogi talent

Then what about the ruling champion Moberg, an international master of chess who had not played shogi since last June? Well, initially Moberg played like a true champion. He studied the positions with a great concentration, he had reached the byo-yomi when Kaneko still had one and a half hours left, he defended himself in his favourite Yagura position, and he dropped his generals in defence with no remorse, which took the steam out of Kaneko´s attacks. Thus, we recognized the heavy "chess shogi" from the play-off last year. Moberg won the first two final games. Kaneko was told about all this in advance. His deft attacking shogi with quick silver generals on the fourth and sixth files, the king left in the center of the back row, and an easily movable rook at the almost always empty second row was working well enough against Ångqvist and Nilsson, but now he had got stuck in the mud and had lost badly in the counter attacks. He played some of his moves still standing, he walked around the entire venue, and if he had not made his move after one minute, his eager fingers almost made it themselves. Thus, we recognized him from the Swedish Championship tournament. However, now he had to find out something new in order to save the best-of-five games match.