From: Hitoshi Matsubara <matsubar <at> CSLI <dot> STANFORD <dot> EDU>
Date: 30 jan 1994
Subject: example of shobu-te

An example of Shobute in SHogi:

Sato Yasumitsu, Challenger - Habu Yoshiharu, Ryu-O
6th Ryu-O Tournament, 6th game
December 9th & 10th 1993
1.P2f P8d(3) 2.P2e(4) P8e(1) 3.G7h G3b(1) 4.P2d(1) Px2d(2) 5.Rx2d P'2c
6.R2f S7b(1) 7.P1f(2) P1d(2) 8.S3h(1) P6d(1) 9.P7f(3) P8f(2) 10.Px8f(1)
Rx8f 11.P'8g(2) R8b(1) 12.P4f(7) S6c(2) 13.S4g(1) S5d(2) 14.S5f(2) P3d(3)
15.K6h(28) P4d(27) 16.B7g(24) S4b(2) 17.S8h(2) S4b-4c(3) 18.P8f(3) G5b(21)
19.G5h(5) K4b(1) 20.S8g(2) K3a(3) 21.K7i(9) P7d(2) 22.P9f(8) P9d(6)
23.P3f(4) N7c(3) 24.B8h(9) R8a(56) 25.N3g(9) G5b-4b(1) 26.G5h-6h(9) P'8e(1)
27.Px8e Rx8e 28.P'8f R8a 29.P3e(72) Px3e(21) 30.P1e(30) Px1e(6) 31.S5e(1)
N6e(56) 32.Sx5d(14) Px5d 33.P6f S'4h(59) 34.Px6e(23) Sx3g=(11) 35.R2e(3)
S3d(19) 36.R2g(23) Sx4f+(7) 37.P'2d(11) Px2d(11) 38.Rx2d G4b-4c(24)
39.R2i(6) P3f(17) 40.P'1b(38) P'2h(4) 41.R4i(3) B1c 42.Lx1e(18) B2d(2)
43.Px1a+ +Sx5g(1) 44.+Px2a(1) K4b 45.L'2g(3) +Sx6h(11) 46.Gx6h P'8e
47.Lx2d(24) Px8f 48.Sx8f(5) Rx8f 49.+P2b(22) N'5f(5) 50.+Px3b(3) Kx3b
51.L2b+(2) Kx2b(3) 52.Bx4d(1) Gx4d 53.B'1a K2c(1) 54.G'1d    1-0
Time taken by black: 7.20
Time taken by white: 6.45

In this record, Habu's 39th move 'P3f' is Shobu-te. 'P2e' is better
from the normal viewpoint, but Habu thought if he would choose
'P2e' he could not have any chance of reverse.

In this example Habu's shobu-te did not success.
But Habu won many games by his Shobu-tes (they say Habu Magic!!).


Hitoshi Matsubara