From: Patrick Davin LYRA VEGA OR JP> Date: 12 mar 1997 Subject: Re: This week in Shukan Shogi (no. 677, March 12th 1997) Thanks Reijer, >Also, for the first time there was extended TV coverage of this day >(more than 6 hours of television), illustrating the growing popularity of >Shogi in Japan. Just short of 8 hours, actually. I wish I had taped the last session. I managed to get 3 game scores, but if I had taped it, I could have gotten the Yonenaga-Tanigawa game as well. Game scores are posted at: >By the way, last weekend on Igo-Shogi weekly there was a glimpse at the >money leaders in professional Shogi. I was hoping that there would be a >complete list in Shukan Shogi, but there wasn't. Perhaps in Shogi Sekai? >Anyway, here are the top three in 1996 (game fees only): >1.Habu 161,450,000 Yen >2.Tanigawa 50,690,000 Yen >3.Moriuchi 33,980,000 Yen Here's the top ten from Shogi Sekai: (unit = 10,000 yen) 1996 1995 (place) 1 Yoshiharu Habu (Meijin) 16145 16597 ( 1) 2 Koji Tanigawa (Ryuo) 5069 5402 ( 2) 3 Toshiyuki Moriuchi (8-dan) 3398 1854 (11) 4 Michio Takahashi (9-dan) 3111 1966 ( 9) 5 Yasumitsu Sato (8-dan) 3104 3372 ( 5) 6 Nobuyuki Yashiki (6-dan) 2789 867 (43) 7 Kunio Yonenaga (9-dan) 2502 2591 ( 6) 8 Makoto Nakahara (Eisei Judan) 2487 4309 ( 3) 9 Akira Shima (8-dan) 2482 1691 (13) 10 Hiroyuki Miura (Kisei) 2178 1364 (23) >So Habu earned more than three times what any other profesional made! He also won five times as many titles. Counted here are prizes plus games fees only. Not counted are money from books, other appearances, endorsements. Habu endorses shogi programs, cram schools, and beer. His name appears as author or co-author on 20 or more books, not all of them strictly shogi. How much he makes in all is hard to guess, but it's substantially more than the figure above. -patrick