From: Reijer Grimbergen MACPOST PSYCH KUN NL> Date: 7 jun 1993 Subject: 51st Meijin-sen games Because I don't seem to be able to reach Pieter, who is normally archiving the games of the major Japanese professional title matches, I now will also post these games directly to the Shogi-L. Below you will find the four games of the Meijin match between Nakahara and Yonenaga. After failing to win this prestigious title for six times, Yonenaga finally managed to grab it in his seventh attempt. Yonenaga's victory was very convincing (4-0), but his lucky escape in the first game seemed to have boosted his confidence enormously. Anyway, Yonenaga managed to get out of the ranks of "brilliant-sportmen-who-never-won-the-major-title-in-their-sport". So maybe there is still hope for Jimmy White (never snooker world champion) and the Dutch football team (never won the world championships). Reijer Grimbergen 51st Meijin-sen Time: 9 hours Nakahara Makoto, Meijin 0 0 0 0 0 Yonenaga Kunio, Challenger 1 1 1 1 4 Nakahara Makoto, Meijin - Yonenaga Kunio, Challenger 51st Meijin Tournament, 1st game April 12th & 13th 1993 1.P2f P8d 2.P2e P8e 3.G7h(2) G3b 4.P2d Px2d 5.Rx2d P'2c 6.R2f S7b 7.P1f(3) P1d 8.S4h(3) P6d(1) 9.K6i(2) P3d(1) 10.G5i(30) K4b(1) 11.P9f(3) P9d 12.P7f(23) P8f(3) 13.Px8f Rx8f 14.R5f(11) R8b(26) 15.P3f(3) P4d(16) 16.N7g(7) S6c(16) 17.R5e(7) G7b(1) 18.N3g(17) P7d(37) 19.P1e(25) Px1e 20.R8e G8c 21.P'1c(30) Lx1c(159) 22.N2e(7) P7e 23.Nx1c+(25) Nx1c 24.Rx7e(8) G7d(1) 25.P'8c(1) R7b(19) 26.Rx1e(14) P'1d 27.Rx1d P'7e 28.Rx3d(24) Px7f(48) 29.P'1d P'8g 30.Gx8g(4) Px7g+ 31.Gx7g(6) N2e(1) 32.P1c+(9) B3c 33.L'3e(7) N'6e(92) 34.Rx3c+(10) Gx3c 35.Lx3c+ Kx3c(7) 36.B'6a R5b(1) 37.Bx5b+(19) Sx5b 38.R'7a S3b(17) 39.P'2d(49) Px2d(13) 40.G'2b(3) R'8i(54) 41.G8g(35) P'7g(1) 42.R3a+(29) S5b-4a(22) 43.+P2c(4) K4c 44.Gx3b B'7h(1) 45.K5h Bx8g+ 46.+Rx4a(44) K5d 47.S'4c K4e(1) 48.S3d= K5d 49.S4c=(12) K4e 50.S'5f(2) Kx3f 51.+R1a N'2f 52.S3d=(3) P'1b 53.+Rx1b N3g+ 54.P'7h(5) +Bx8h 55.Sx3g(1) Kx3g 56.+R1g K3h 57.G4i(1) K2i 58.+Rx2f S'2h 59.Sx8h B'6i 60.K4h G'5h 0-1 Time taken by black: 8.08 Time taken by white: 8.59 Yonenaga leads by 1-0 Yonenaga Kunio, Challenger - Nakahara Makoto, Meijin 51st Meijin Tournament, 2nd game April 26th & 27th 1993 1.P7f P8d(2) 2.S6h P3d 3.S7g S6b 4.P5f P5d(1) 5.S4h S4b 6.G7h G3b 7.K6i K4a(1) 8.G5h G5b 9.P6f S3c(6) 10.P3f P4d 11.B7i B3a 12.G5h-6g(1) G5b-4c(3) 13.B6h(1) P7d(3) 14.K7i B6d(3) 15.N3g K3a(1) 16.R3h(1) P8e(4) 17.P1f P1d 18.P2f S5c(1) 19.K8h P9d(2) 20.L1g(131) B7c(17) 21.P2e(11) P9e(18) 22.R1h S2b 23.L9h(39) P4e(43) 24.P1e(31) Px1e 25.Lx1e P'1c(4) 26.K9i B5a(69) 27.S8h(19) P6d(42) 28.G6g-7g(12) B4b(1) 29.P4f(72) P1d(27) 30.Lx1d(1) Lx1d 31.Rx1d L'1c 32.Rx1c+ Sx1c 33.Px4e R'4i(13) 34.L'4d(7) Gx4d(4) 35.Px4d Rx4h+ 36.G'4c(64) Gx4c(47) 37.Px4c+ +Rx4c 38.P'4d Sx4d 39.P'4e Sx4e 40.P'4d(14) +Rx4d 41.Nx4e G'4c(40) 42.L'4g(17) S'3b(4) 43.B5i(6) P3e(27) 44.G'4f(17) P9f(19) 45.Px9f P'9g 46.Lx9g +R1d(9) 47.Gx3e(10) P'4d 48.P'1e(1) Bx1e 49.Bx1e +Rx1e 50.B'3g(2) +R1h(23) 51.Bx6d L'4b 52.Bx8b+(1) B'6i 53.R'6a(20) K2b(2) 54.+Bx9a Bx7h+(12) 55.Gx7h +Rx7h 56.B'3a 1-0 Time taken by black: 7.58 Time taken by white: 7.28 Yonenaga leads by 2-0 Nakahara Makoto, Meijin - Yonenaga Kunio, Challenger 51st Meijin Tournament, 3rd game May 11th & 12th 1993 1.P2f P8d 2.P2e P8e 3.G7h(1) G3b 4.P2d Px2d 5.Rx2d P'2c 6.R2f S7b(2) 7.P1f(4) P1d 8.S4h(1) P6d(1) 9.K6i(2) P3d(2) 10.G5i(2) S4b(3) 11.P7f(17) P4d 12.B7g S4c(15) 13.S6h(2) G5b(40) 14.P6f(6) S6c(27) 15.S6g(1) P7d 16.P5f N7c 17.P5e(48) P4e(70) 18.S5g(13) Bx5e 19.P6e(8) B3c(17) 20.P7e(47) K4b(89) 21.Px6d(16) Sx6d(2) 22.Bx3c+(5) Nx3c 23.Px7d N6e(8) 24.S5g-6f P8f(28) 25.Px8f(2) P'8h(2) 26.N7g(42) Nx7g+(6) 27.Sx7g P8i+(8) 28.N'5f(64) S6e(37) 29.P7c+(6) B'3e(2) 30.+Px8b(42) Bx2f 31.R'6a(25) R'2h(5) 32.G5h(4) Rx2i+(18) 33.P'5i P'7f(3) 34.S7gx7f(9) Sx7f(31) 35.Sx7f Bx3g+ 36.B'8d(45) S'7c(21) 37.B4h(12) +B5e 38.S'6f(39) +Bx5f(1) 39.G7h-6g N'6d(19) 40.K7h(2) +P8h 41.Kx8h(1) Nx7f(1) 42.K7g +Bx6g(4) 43.Kx6g N8h+ 44.+P7b(5) S'7h(1) 45.K5g N'6d(2) 46.B'6e(1) S5d(4) 47.+Px7c Sx6e 48.Sx6e G'5e 49.--- (1) 0-1 Time taken by black: 7.53 Time taken by white: 7.49 Yonenaga leads by 3-0 Yonenaga Kunio, Challenger - Nakahara Makoto, Meijin 51st Meijin Tournament, 4th game May 20th & 21st 1993 1.P7f P8d(1) 2.S6h P3d 3.S7g S6b 4.P5f(1) P5d(1) 5.S4h S4b 6.G7h G3b 7.K6i(1) K4a(10) 8.G5h G5b 9.P6f P4d(2) 10.P3f S3c 11.B7i(2) B3a 12.G5h-6g G5b-4c(2) 13.B6h(2) P7d(13) 14.K7i P8e(12) 15.R3h(4) B6d(6) 16.N3g(2) K3a(1) 17.P2f(3) S5c(1) 18.P1f(11) P1d(29) 19.K8h(20) B7c(1) 20.P4f(15) S2b(7) 21.S4g N3c 22.N2e(2) S4b(4) 23.P3e(2) Px3e(4) 24.Rx3e P'3d 25.R3i P2d 26.Nx3c+ S4bx3c 27.S3f S2c 28.R2i(17) K2b(20) 29.P2e Px2e 30.Sx2e P'2d 31.S3f P9d(1) 32.P9f(112) B6d(38) 33.P'3e Px3e(68) 34.Sx3e P'3d(3) 35.S2f P7e(12) 36.Px7e(68) Bx7e 37.P'7f B5c(14) 38.N'3f P9e(53) 39.Px9e P8f 40.Sx8f(26) Bx8f 41.Px8f P'8e(1) 42.Px8e(1) P3e 43.Nx2d(24) S3cx2d 44.P4e S'3d(5) 45.Px4d(16) G4c-4b 46.P'2e(9) S3c 47.B'4f N'6d(22) 48.Sx3e(4) Sx3e 49.Bx3e Rx8e(2) 50.P'8f(7) Rx3e 51.Bx3e B'4g 52.P2d(63) Bx2i+ 53.Px2c+ Gx2c(4) 54.P'2d Nx7f(40) 55.Gx7f(5) P'8g 56.Kx8g(2) R'3g(8) 57.S'6g(1) +Bx5f(11) 58.Px2c+(8) +Bx2c 59.B4f 1-0 Time taken by black: 7.08 Time taken by white: 6.36 Final result: Yonenaga Kunio - Nakahara Makoto 4-0 Reijer Grimbergen Nijmegen Institute of Cognition Research and Information Technology P.O. 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