From: Reijer Grimbergen ETL GO JP> Date: 9 apr 1997 Subject: This week in Shukan Shogi (no. 681, April 9th 1997) I have been working on my homepage a little lately, since the professional season is over and there is not much work involved in updating the info on it. I have added some graphics and photo's, but the basic information is still the same. Check it out and tell me what you think. Suggestions always welcome! Morishita's woes in important games continue. Last week the first game of the Zen Nihon Pro Tournament was played and again Morishita ended up losing. After the game started out as a Yagura, Morishita tried to stop Tanigawa's climbing silver attack with a switch to opposing rook. Very rare strategy for Morishita indeed. He managed to stop Tanigawa's bogin, but ended up with nothing to do after completing the anaguma. Many professionals would have been happy to take a sennichite with white, but Tanigawa stayed in character and attacked. Morishita thought Tanigawa might overplay his hand, but even in an open position it was Tanigawa who had the upper hand. However, in the endgame he made a mistake and let Morishita back in. Morishita thought he had a choice of being mated with one move to spare or lose a lot of material with his king in the open, resulting in a hideous losing position. He chose the former and lost gracefully. However, had he played the other variation, he would have still had chances to win. In the Kisei tournament Nakahara beat Fujii to make sure of his place in the semifinals and to make sure that this is not going to be another young men's fight. Actually, if Yonenaga can beat Yashiki this week we have two "generation" semifinals: Moriuchi-Goda and Nakahara-Yonenaga. Let's see if Yashiki also thinks that that would be nice :-). In the Oi league both Goda and Sato won their third game in a row and are favourites to win the white and red group respectively. However, still two games to play and Nakamura and Maruyama are also without a loss (after two games). Last week also a rare game between teacher and pupil. Inoue had to play Wakamatsu in the prerounds of the Osho. Inoue, just promoted to 8-dan, "returned the favour" as they say in Japan and won convincingly. Not much more in Shukan Shogi this week, as can be concluded from the extensive coverage an event like Kirin Pair Shogi tournament gets (two full pages). 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