| Quest of the lost systems |
|
|
| Chapter Two: Furibisha |
| Section 5: Masuda-shiki Ishida-ryu |
For your imformation, out of the recent ten thousand-odd professional
games, only four were played with this strategy by black players, while
20 were played by white players. I have to add that the White's winning
rate was not very good.
Next I will present what could be called a model game for a black player
against white's Masuda-shiki. It was a final match of the TV Haya-zashi
Championship Tournament, played by Yoshiharu Habu and Kenji Waki. I might
add that although Masuda used it in Meijin-sen, a very long game, the strategy
is now more frequently used in a match like Haya-zashi, because the strategy
is better fit for a quick game. Haya-zashi is a very quick game, in which
each move has to be made within 30 seconds.
Masuda's Ishida-ryu : a model game (6)
The diagram below is from the final match of Haya-zashi Tournament, played
by Waki(b) and Habu(w), on 20 Feb., 1993. The last move was bS-7h, by Waki.
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
+--------------------------------------------+ Habu in hand:
| wL | wN | wS | wG | | wG | | wN | wL | a +------------------+
+--------------------------------------------+ | B |
| | | wK | | | | | wS | | b | |
+--------------------------------------------+ +------------------+
| wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | | wP | wP | c
+--------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | wR | | | d
+--------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | wP | | | e
+--------------------------------------------+
| bP | | bP | | | bP | | | | f
+--------------------------------------------+
| | bP | | bP | bP | bS | bP | bP | bP | g
+--------------------------------------------+ Waki in hand:
| | | bS | bK | | | | bR | | h +------------------+
+--------------------------------------------+ | B |
| bL | bN | | bG | | bG | | bN | bL | i | |
+--------------------------------------------+ +------------------+
After this: (from White)
P-9d; P-6f, G-3b; S-6g, K-8b; K-7h, S-7b;
P-2f, P-1d; P-1f, S-3c; G4i-5h, S-4d; P-2e, S-5e;
G6i-6h, N-3c; P-6e,
The very beginning of the game was bP-7f, wP-3d, bP-9f, which could have
been a Masuda-shiki black-version. We can see Waki has taken extra precautions
in building up his formation. He postponed pushing a Pawn up to 2e, in order
to prepare for White's B*1d or P-2d.
