From: Reijer Grimbergen ETL GO JP> Date: 22 nov 1996 Subject: This week in Shukan Shogi (no. 662, November 20th 1996) & Ryu-O This is a little late this time, but there is a good Shogi reason for that. I have been visiting the 4th game of the Ryu-O sen in Mie-ken to see whether Tanigawa would be able to get within one win of taking the title or if Habu would be able to level the match. As you have already heard from Eric, Tanigawa won this vital game and now has three chances to take the title from Habu. Considering his good form and the vulnerability of Habu lately, I don't expect much problems for Tanigawa. He dictated game 4 with white in a hineribisha opening and that is no small thing. Here are the moves and I hope I have time next week to write more about my impressions of the game and the comments of Mori (9-dan) and Fukuzaki (8-dan), guided by next week's issue of Shukan Shogi. Black: Habu Yoshiharu, Ryu-O White: Tanigawa Koji, 9-dan 9th Ryu-O match, game 4 Grand Hotel Koyo, Yunoyama-onsen, November 19th & 20th 1996 1.P2f P8d 2.P2e P8e 3.G7h G3b 4.P2d Px2d 5.Rx2d P'2c 6.R2f S7b 7.P9f P1d 8.P7f P8f 9.Px8f Rx8f 10.S3h P6d 11.N7g S4b 12.K4h K4a 13.P1f R8b 14.P7e P3d 15.R7f S6c 16.S6h K3a 17.P'8e P4d 18.P6f G7b 19.B9g B3c 20.K3i K2b 21.P5f P4e 22.S5g S5d 23.G6h G6c 24.K2h P9d 25.R8f P'8c 26.G6h-5h S4b-4c (sealed move) 27.P4f Px4f 28.Sx4f P'4e 29.S5e P3e 30.P6e Sx5e 31.Px5e Bx5e 32.B8h G5d 33.S'5f B3c 34.P'5e Gx5e 35.Sx5e Bx5e 36.G'5f B3c 37.Px6d R6b 38.P'4d Sx4d 39.P8d Rx6d 40.G6e R6a 41.Px8c+ P'8e 42.Rx8e P3f 43.+P7b Px3g+ 44.Sx3g S3e 45.P'3f N9c 46.R8b+ Rx6e 47.Nx6e Bx8h+ 48.+Rx8h B'5e 49.B'7g P'6f 50.G3h S'2f 51.G5h-4h Sx3f 52.K3i S3fx3g+ 53.G4hx3g Sx3g+ 54.Nx3g P'3f 55.S'4a G'3a 56.Sx3b+ Gx3b 57.S'4a G'3a 58.Sx3b+ Gx3b 59.N2e S'3g 60.resigns This is another very good period for Tanigawa, because last week he also beat Moriuchi in the A-junisen to share the lead with Morishita. Both players lost their first game, but have a perfect score after that, so are now both at 4-1. Morishita's schedule looks slightly more difficult than Tanigawa's, but there is still a long way to go and Moriuchi at 3-2 is still close. Murayama (1-3) got a very important win against Mori (2-2). If he would have lost this game, he would have lost contact with the players at 2-3 or better and his bad ranking in the A-class would have meant big pressure on the remaining games. This pressure is now on Mori, who is ranked lowest in the A-junisen and needs to win at least half of the remaining games to keep in the A class. In the C1 class a complete round was played. The leaders made no mistake, which means that Kansaki (beating Horiguchi) is still in the lead with 6-1, closely followed by Nakagawa (beat Ito), Murooka (beat Sakurai) and Sensaki (beat Sanada). Still in with a shout are Abe (5-2), Sanada (4-2), Kubo (4-2), Hiura (4-2), Kobayashi (4-2) and both the Nakata's (also at 4-2). Yashiki lost his third game, which means that he will have to wait at least another year. In the Kio Kobayashi was the first one to reach the semifinals. He beat Moriuchi, who still has a chance to become the challenger, because this tournament has a second chance round. In the Osho league Maruyama beat Takahashi. Both players are now 1-2, which means that both have only theoretical chances to become the challeneger of Osho Habu. Next week more, Reijer -- Reijer Grimbergen Electrotechnical Laboratory Palcious Tsukuba 302 1-1-4 Umezono 1-24-8 Ninomiya Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305 JAPAN 305 JAPAN E-mail: grimberg etl go jp Tel: 0298-59-1606 WWW: http://www.etl.go.jp:8080/etl/suiron/~grimberg Tel: +81-(0)298-54-5080 extension: 67431 Fax: +81-(0)298-58-5918