From: Patrick Davin <patrick <at> LYRA <dot> VEGA <dot> OR <dot> JP>
Date: 11 jun 1997
Subject: Tanigawa Wins Meijin Match!

Challenger Koji Tanigawa has won the 55th Meijin Match
by a score of 4-2 over Yoshiharu Habu.

Here is the score of the fascinating final game:

  Sente: Meijin Yoshiharu Habu
   Gote: Challenger Koji Tanigawa
  Event: 55th Meijin Match, Game 6
   Date: 1997 June 10th & 11th
   Site: Gumma
Opening: Bogin

 1 P7f  P8d   2 S6h  P3d   3 P6f  P8e   4 S7g  S7b   5 P5f  S8c
 6 B7i  S8d   7 G7h  G3b   8 P2f  S4b   9 S4h  K4a  10 G5h  P6d
11 G56g S9e  12 B6h  P6e  13 S5g  P8f  14 P8f  S8f  15 S8f  P8h
16 N7g  R8f  17 P8g  R8d  18 G8h  P6f  19 S6f  P1d  20 K6i  K3a
21 K7h  P3e  22 S4f  P7d  23 P2e  N7c  24 B5g  P7e  25 S7e  R4d
26 P6d  G6b  27 B6f  R3d  28 P6c+ G6c  29 B2b+ K2b  30 B4e  B3i
31 R3h  B7e+ 32 P7e  R6d  33 P6e  G5d  34 P6d  G4e  35 S4e  B2g
36 R2h  B4e+ 37 P2d  P2d  38 P6c+ P6f  39 G6f  P6e  40 G5e  S6g
41 K8i  +B2c 42 P2e  P2e  43 +P5c S5c  44 B5a  S4b  45 B7c+ P7f
46 P2d  +B2d 47 G4e  S6f  48 G*3d P7g+ 49 G7g  S7g+ 50 +B5e S*3c
51 +B7g G7h  52 R7h  S7h+ 53 K7h  P7f  54 G2d  P7g+ 55 K7g  S2d
56 S3d  G6f  57 K8f  R8a  58 N8d  R8d  59 K9f  B6c  60 R7d  R7d
61 P7d  B4e  62 S4e  R7f     0-1


With this, his 5th Meijin victory, Tanigawa becomes the 17th
Eisei Meijin and owner of the 2 most prestigious titles in
Shogi: Meijin and Ryuo.

Yoshiharu Habu, who only last year became the first player in
history to hold all seven of the major titles, now holds "merely"
four: Oi, Kio, Oza, and Osho.