From: Pieter Stouten EMBL BITNET> Date: 21 may 1990 Subject: Game 4 (professional, some annotation by amateurs) The following analysis is written by David Murphy (2-dan) and appeared in "Shoten", the magazine of the British Shogi Federation, in January 1990. The game is the 4-th of the five games final match of the 37-th Oza tournament. It was played on 5-th October 1989 and time limits were 5 hours. The black player was introduced in a previous posting. Aono Teruichi, who has white, visited Europe several times in the early eighties as representative of the Nihon Shogi Renmei. He also wrote two very good bi-lingual books (in English and Japanese), which are still available from The Shogi Association in England. After losing this game Mr. Aono also lost the 5-th which signaled the end of his first title challenge. By the way, please let me know whether these games-postings are useful. I don't mind providing them, but some response is welcome. Pieter Stouten bitnet: stouten@embl ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Black: Nakahara Makoto; White: Aono Teruichi 1.P2f P8d 2.P2e P8e 3.G7h G3b 4.P2d Px2d 5.Rx2d P*2c 6.R2f S7b 7.P1f P1d 8.S3h P9d 9.P9f P3d 10.P7f K4b 11.K6h P8f 12.Px8f Rx8f 13.P*8g R8b 14.P3f P*8f 15.Px8f Rx8f 16.P3e Px3e 17.N3g R8d 18.P1e Px1e 19.N4e P4d 20.P*3c Nx3c 21.Nx3c+ Kx3c(A) 22.P4f K3d 23.P4e Px4e 24.Bx2b+ Sx2b 25.N7g!(B) R8i+(C) 26.S8h N*8g 27.R5f(D) G5b 28.N*2f K3c 29.Sx8g P*8f 30.B*6f K4c 31.G7i(E) +Rx8g 32.P*8h +Rx7f 33.Bx2b+! +Rx5f 34.S*4d K4b 35.N3d K5a 36.+Bx3b B*4f 37.G*4g Resigns(F) (A) According to Mr Ito (a strong 5-dan amateur, living in London), if 21. ... Gx3c or Bx3c then 22.P*3d, 23.N*3c and 24 N2a+. (B) Nakahara is famous for his skilful knight moves. (C) After 93 minutes reflection! (D) The start of a decisive attack on the 3d king! (E) If 31. ... +Rx9i 32.N6e naturally. Then if 32. ... +R9g 33.P*4d K4b 34.N3d and 35.Nx5c+, or 32. ... +Rx7i 33.Kx7i Px8f 34.R*4d K3c 35.N*2e mates. This is my reading of it anyway, not "official" analysis! (F) According to Steve Cain (2-dan), if 37. ... +R5d 38.+Bx5d Px5d 39.R*3a decides. E.g. 39. ... S*4a 40.N*5c, or 39. ... K6b 40.Gx4f and 41.B*7a mate.