From: Sylvain Ferrieres CLIPPER ENS FR> Date: 7 jan 2003 Subject: Shogi games Hi everybody, Happy new year for people concerned.. I'm a kyu player and I'm looking for "classical" shogi games, I mean historical or well known, for every kind of openings, new tactics, different style of plays.. Here some of my favourite among the (few) ones I tried to study... Thanks to P. Davin for the numerous games accessible on the Shogi Nexus site (http://www.shogi.net/nexus/). I'm not able to comment them, so I just point out why I chose them, waiting for commentaries and opinions... I found this one very interesting for White made his space advantage on the right a basis for attack the black anaguma. I wonder if this is an example of what Habu, in his "words" book, called a thick castle... Sente: Chikako Nagasawa Joryu 3-dan Gote: Kosuke Tamura 4-dan Event: 28th Shinjin'o Tournament, Round 1 Opening: Shikenbisha Anaguma 1 P7f P3d 2 P6f P8d 3 R6h S6b 4 K4h K4b 5 K3h K3b 6 K2h P8e 7 B7g P5d 8 S7h S5c 9 L1h G65b 10 K1i B3c 11 S6g K2b 12 S2h S3b 13 G65h P1d 14 P4f P2d 15 G3i S2c 16 G4g G3b 17 P3f P7d 18 R3h P4d 19 P3e P3e 20 R3e G54c 21 R3h P3d 22 G3f P1e 23 P4e P4e 24 G4e P4d 25 G4f B5a 26 P5f B7c 27 G3f N3c 28 B5i P4e 29 P7e P7e 30 R7h P3e 31 G3g R7b 32 N7g S4d 33 N8e B6d 34 P6e B4b 35 S6f R7d 36 B4h P7f 37 P7e R8d 38 P8f N7c 39 N7c+ R8f 40 +N6c R8i+ 41 R7f N2e 42 Gg3h P1f 43 P1f P3f 44 P4i +R9i 45 +N5b L3g 46 +N4b G34b 47 N3g P3g+ 48 G3g N3g+ 49 B3g P3h 50 G3h N2e 51 B9a+ +R4i 52 L3i N4f 53 +B4f P4f 54 R7g P1g 55 L1g P3g 56 R3g N3g+ 57 G3g P4g+ 0-1 A funny Yagura, as far as I understand it, made of a quick attack calmed down by White who won a knight and then sacrificed his bishop (move 43) to reach the black King in a beautiful castle demolition (moves 45 to 51) and some inspiring defensive moves like the silver sacrifice on move 47. An example of speed in the endgame.. ? Sente: Hiroki Iizuka 5-dan Gote: Yasuaki Tsukada 8-dan Event: 48th NHK Cup Tournament, Round 1 Date: Broadcast 1998 June 14th Opening: Yagura 1 P7f P8d 2 S6h P3d 3 P6f S6b 4 P5f P5d 5 S4h S4b 6 G45h G3b 7 G7h K4a 8 K6i G5b 9 S7g S3c 10 B7i B3a 11 P3f P4d 12 G56g G54c 13 S3g P8e 14 P3e P3e 15 B3e S5c 16 S3f S3d 17 B6h S4e 18 S3e S3f 19 G5g P3g 20 P3i P4e 21 S2f S4d 22 S3g S3g+ 23 N3g P5e 24 P5e S5e 25 N4e P4d 26 P5f S6d 27 P4f P7d 28 K7i P7e 29 P7e S7e 30 P7f S6d 31 P2f B4b 32 P1f K3a 33 P2e P9d 34 P1e P9e 35 G56g K2b 36 K8h S3d 37 P3h P8f 38 S8f P7e 39 P7e P4e 40 P4e S7e 41 S7e B7e 42 P7f B6d 43 S5e B5e 44 P5e S6i 45 P2d S*5h 46 P2c+ S2c 47 P2d S2d 48 B2d P2c 49 B5a+ S7h+ 50 K7h S6g+ 51 K6g R8g+ 52 S7g G4g 53 S5h P5f 54 S*6h G4f 55 B6e N7c 56 P8h G*5g 57 S55g P5g+ 58 S5g G5g 59 K5g N6e 60 P6e B3i 61 S4h P5f 62 K5f B2h+ 63 P8g R4f 64 K6g R4h+ 65 P2d +B4f 66 P2c+ K2c 67 R2g P2d 68 G5f N7d 69 P7e +B5f 70 K5f +R5h 71 G5g S6g 72 K4f S3e 73 K3e +R3h 74 N3g G3d 0-1