From: George Hodges <george.hodges <at> TALK21 <dot> COM>
Date: 20 dec 2002
Subject: Longest Shogi game?

I don't know what the record might be nowadays for the longest Shogi game
and probably there are one or two nonsense scores extant; but as far as
actual professional games are concerned, an extraordinarily long game
featured in the Oza tournament played on 23rd October 1981. This saw Awaji
who was then 6-dan (Black) playing Nakada 4-dan (White), in a Twisting Rook
opening, which only finished in Awaji's favour after 339 moves! The time
limit here was 6 hours per side.
The full score of this game was given in my SHOGI magazine Issue 48 March
1984.

George Hodges