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Source: Reijer Grimbergen's translated highlights of the week from
the magazine Shukan Shogi, posted to the
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Perfect to the end
Time to catch up after Golden Week. A full week of national holidays and
some paper deadlines mean that I have to do two Shukan Shogi reports in one
again this time. First the second game of the meijin match between Sato
Yasumitsu and Maruyama Tadahisa. Shukan Shogi calls this a "Kanpu" victory for
Maruyama, which to my knowledge is a baseball term used when a pitcher throws the
full nine innings and wins. Perfect to the end, so to say, and this is
how Maruyama did it:
See the text
version of the game with comments or play through the game in a
Java viewer.
Tanigawa's one-sided match victory
Tanigawa ended the one-sided Zen Nihon Pro Tournament match with a
victory over Okazaki in game three. He must have felt some extra pressure,
knowing that everyone expected him to win against his lowly ranked opponent, but
Tanigawa outplayed Okazaki to win the match in straight games. Okazaki
had a little more fun in this game than in the previous games, but the
result did not change. Here is game three with comments:
See the text
version of the game with comments or play through the game in a
Java viewer.
Other shogi
news
Top players do well in Oza
Oi leagues
Ryu-O tournament
- Reijer Grimbergen
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