From: Patrick Davin <patrick <at> LYRA <dot> VEGA <dot> OR <dot> JP>
Date: 30 jan 1999
Subject: Re: This week in Shukan Shogi (no. 773, January 27th 1999)

Reijer comments:
>Interesting detail: in professional shogi
>there is a difference between the "higher seat" and the king without the
>dot, which both go to the senior player. In this game Tanigawa took the
>higher seat, but Nakahara had the king without the dot. Result of long
>negotations between two Lifetime Meijins? :-)

Don't think so.  There's a rule for everything.  :-)

I've heard that the King without the dot goes to the player senior in age
(or years as a pro, to be exact).

The "upper seat" belongs to the player senior in the pecking order.
Apparently Zen-Ryuo outranks Eisei Judan.