From: Pieter Stouten <STOUTEN <at> EMBL <dot> BITNET>
Date: 11 nov 1990
Subject: This is the real Ryu O game 3. The former was game 2. Sorry about

As you know the very prestigeous tournament, the Ryu O, is in its final
stages. The Ryu O is for Shogi more or less what the World Championship is
for Chess.
The first game was played in Frankfurt, Germany and is already available
from the archive. We have an extremely fast source in Japan, who promised
to send all the Ryu O games as soon as they were played. I'll try to keep
up with him and type the games in and check them as soon as possibile.
Below is the first part of the third game of the Ryu O title match,
played on 8-th November between Tanigawa Koji and Habu Yoshiharu. The
comment is by Katsuhiko Murooka, 5-dan professional (the fast source !).
The first two Ryu O games were won by Tanigawa.
 
   Pieter Stouten
   <stouten <at> embl <dot> bitnet>
   <stouten <at> embl-heidelberg <dot> de>
 
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Ryu O Title Match 1990, Game 3: Tanigawa Koji - Habu Yoshiharu.
 
   1.P7f P8d 2.P2f P8e 3.B7g P3d 4.S8h G3b 5.G7h Bx7g+ 6.Sx7g S4b
   7.S3h S7b 8.P4f P6d 9.S4g S6c 10.G5h G5b 11.K6h K4a 12.S5f S5d
   13.P6f P4d 14.P3f P7d 15.K7i K3a 16.N3g P1d 17.P1f G5b-4c 18.K8h P9d
   19.P9f S3c 20.R4h K2b 21.P4e
Alternatives:
--21.B'2h!? S4b 22.P6e Sx6e 23.Sx6e Px6e 24.P4e S'2g 25.Px4d G4c-3c
26.N2e Sx2h= 27.Nx3c+ Nx3c 28.S'4c P'4e 29.Sx3b+ Kx3b 30.P3e S3g+
31.R4i N'8f (slight advantage white), Maruta - Nakahara 0-1, 1986.
--21.L1h!? G4c-4b 22.B'1i!? B'2g 23.G4g P1e 24.N2e Px1f 25.P4e P1g+
26.Bx6d R9b 27.Nx3c+ Kx3c 28.Px4d Bx1h+ 29.P'1b Lx1b 30.Rx1h+ +Px1h
31.B'1a (slight advantage black, but what if 21... K3a!), Tanigawa -
Nakahara 1-0, 1986.
   21... Px4e 22.B'4a S4d
22... B'9b? 23.Sx4e Sx4e 24.Nx4e S4d 25.B6c+ and black stands better,
after 22... R7b black would have the better position, too.
22... P1e!? 23.Px7e P6e 24.Px6e P4f 25.B1d+ R6b is unclear. Maybe white
stands a bit better, Tanigawa - T. Tanaka 1-0, exhibition game 1986.
22... P7e!? 23.B7d+ Px7f 24.Sx7f P6e 25.P1e Px1e 26.+B6d P'7c 27.P'1c
and black stands slightly better, Morishita - Oshima 1-0, 1990.
   23.Bx7d+ P3e 24.+Bx6d B'7c 25.+Bx7c Nx7c 26.B'6d R8c (26... R7b ?!)
   27.Sx4e
If 27.Nx4e then 27... P'4f 28.Bx4f P4e 29.Px9e S5dx4e 30.Sx4e. White
stands slightly better, Maruyama - Senzaki 0-1, 1990.
   27... S5dx4e 28.Nx4e P8f 29.Px8f adjourned
My opinion of the adjourned position is that black stands a bit better,
but probably Habu has prepared something new for this game, because if
he picked out this system for white, the adjourned position is to be
expected.
 
   Katsuhiko Murooka, Tokyo, Japan.