From: Takako Noda JA2 SO-NET OR JP> Date: 2 jan 1997 Subject: "QUEST"Masuda's Ishida-ryu (2) Masuda's Ishida-ryu : gote (White) version 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 +--------------------------------------------+ Masuda in hand: | wL | wN | wS | wG | wK | wG | wS | wN | wL | a +------------------+ +--------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | wR | wB | | b | | +--------------------------------------------+ +------------------+ | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | | wP | wP | c +-------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | d +--------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | wP | bP | | e +--------------------------------------------+ | | | bP | | | | | | | f +--------------------------------------------+ | bP | bP | | bP | bP | bP | bP | | bP | g +--------------------------------------------+ Oyama in hand: | | bB | | | | | | bR | | h +------------------+ +--------------------------------------------+ | | | bL | bN | bS | bG | bK | bG | bS | bN | bL | i | | +--------------------------------------------+ +------------------+ The third game of Meijin-sen took place on April 30 & May 1, 1971. The diagram above shows Masuda's formation as White. Then follows: (from Black) S-4h, K-6b, P-4f, K-7b, K-6h, K-8b, K-7h, S-7b, S-4g, P-1d, P-2d, Px2d, Rx2d. Masuda's domain looks already partly crushed, but not exactly. He then proceeds as follows: (from White) +B-8h, Sx8h, R-2b, P*2c, R-1b. After exchanging Bs, he shifted his R to 2b, demanding another exchange of the big pieces, Rs. By resorting to this procedure, Masuda virtually stopped Oyama's attack on the second file, just as he had planned. Oyama avoided exchanging Rs, because his territory alone would have had a space for dropping R. So, he had to drop his P on 2c. But with Masuda's R at a safe spot on 1b, Oyama had no further means of attack. He could have dropped B at 2b, but only would have met Masuda's G-3b. (TO BE CONTINUED)