| Quest of the lost systems |
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| Chapter Two: Furibisha |
| Section 5: Masuda-shiki Ishida-ryu |
Masuda's Ishida-ryu: gote version (3)
After Masuda's R-1b followed : R-2f, G-3b, P-3f, Px3f, Sx3f, P*2b, Px2b+,
Rx2b, P*2e, S-4b, G-6h, P-5d, P-1f, B*5c. (See Diagram below)
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
+--------------------------------------------+ White in hand:
| wL | wN | | wG | | | | wN | wL | a +------------------+
+--------------------------------------------+ | 2P |
| | wK | wS | | | wS | wG | wR | | b | |
+--------------------------------------------+ +------------------+
| wP | wP | wP | wP | wB | wP | | | | c
+--------------------------------------------
| | | | | wP | | | | wP | d
+--------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | bP | | e
+--------------------------------------------+
| | | bP | | | bP | bS | bR | bP | f
+--------------------------------------------+
| bP | bP | | bP | bP | | | | | g
+--------------------------------------------+ Black in hand:
| | bS | bK | bG | | | | | | h +------------------+
+--------------------------------------------+ | B, P |
| bL | bN | | | | bG | | bN | bL | i | |
+--------------------------------------------+ +------------------+
Then continued as follows (from Black) :
R-2h, B-6d; G-3h, Bx4f; N-3g, P*2c; S-7g, P-4d;
S-6f, S-4c; G-4g, B-6d; P-5f, S-3d; P*3e, S-4e;
P-5e, Sx3f; Gx3f, P*3h; R-2i, G-4c; P-2d, Px2d;
S*6e, B-3a; Px5d, S*4g; G-4f, S-4h=; G-3f, P-6d;
S-5f, P-3i+; P*2c, R-3b; R-2h, +P-4i; K-8h, P*3d;
Px3d, P*3e; Gx3e, Sx3g=; R-2g, S-4f=; Gx2d, B-1c;
G-7h, N*8d; B*7i, Nx7f; K-7g, P*2f; Rx2f, ???
Excuse my long citation. Masuda made a develishly clever move at the
end (marked ???), which set the game in his favor. Would you guess what
that move was? Check out the next page to find out. Oyama, however, was
known to be a tenacious player. He hung on till the 210th move, and finally
bowed to Masuda.
Masuda-shiki Ishida-ryu was a challenge to a common belief that furi-bisha
was a passive strategy. And Masuda certainly made his point.
Thus, Masuda's Ishida-ryu had its day, becoming a pet strategy among shogi
fans for a certain period, and even to this day we still can see some people
like to use it, but not among professionals. Why? The clue lies in the 6th
game of the same meijin-sen series.
