From: tiger22 <at> IX <dot> NETCOM <dot> COM
Date: 8 apr 1999
Subject: Tanigawa & Sato

From: Randy Andrews

Reijer wrote:
>In the Kisei tournament the two remaining quarterfinals were played. The
>most interesting one was the game between Meijin Sato and Tanigawa, just one
>week before the Meijin match between these two. The game showed that we have
>a real fight to look forward to in the Meijin match. A Yokofudori game with
>the recently very popular R8e variation.

It looks like game 1 of the Meijin match also was Yokofudori.
It might be interesting to post the Kisei game for comparison if anyone has it.

As far as game 1 the first 16 moves were the same as the recently posted game of Morishita - Sato which was kindly translated for the list by
Satoshi Nagaura-san. A very timely translation indeed. About the N-3c variation he wrote:

"Nw-3c style does not have so many records. It is,
however, used by Mr.Waki(7-dan) so often that it is also called
"Waki-style". This opening has still many unknown parts. ... "

It must been very difficult because only 13 more moves were played on the first day.  What is the purpose of Sente advance P-1f P-1e?