From: "'Gary Whelan'" <gwshogi <at> ENTERMAIL <dot> NET>
Date: 20 dec 2002
Subject: Re: Longest Shogi game?

Wow.  Thats about 170 moves in chess notation I
guess.  Has there ever been a chess game that
long?

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