From: Takako Noda <tombo <at> L-SEKIME <dot> GR <dot> JP>
Date: 13 jul 2003
Subject: Re: NHK Update

> Women's Meijin Hiroe Nakai just defeated Men's Pro Mamoru
> Hatakeyama 6 dan.
> I don't know if this is the first time a Women has won an NHK

Indeed it IS! And a very impressive win (BELOW) against the one who is
known for his strong offense  rather than defense, contrary to  what his
name suggests. When he was younger, people said jokingly, "Mamoru wa
semeru", which is literally "defense(mamoru) is offense"!

Black: Hiroe Nakai women's meijin
White: Mamoru Hatakeyama 6 dan

  1.P-7f   P-8d     2.S-6h   P-3d     3.P-6f   S-6b     4.P-5f   P-5d
  5.S-4h   S-4b     6.G4i-5h G-3b     7.G-7h   K-4a     8.K-6i   G-5b
  9.S-7g   S-3c    10.B-7i   B-3a    11.P-3f   P-4d    12.G5h-6g P-7d
 13.S-3g   B-6d    14.B-6h   G5b-4c  15.K-7i   K-3a    16.K-8h   K-2b
 17.S-4f   S-5c    18.N-3g   P-9d    19.P-1f   P-1d    20.P-2f   S-2d
 21.R-3h   P-9e    22.P-6e   B-7c    23.L-1h   P-8e    24.N-2e   S-4b
 25.P-3e   Sx3e    26.Sx3e   Px3e    27.P-1e   Px1e    28.P-6d   Bx6d
 29.Rx3e   S*2d    30.R-6e   N-7c    31.Rx6d   Px6d    32.B*4a   R*3i
 33.Bx7d+  N-6e    34.+Bx6d  Nx7g+   35.G6gx7g R-9b    36.P*1c   P*6g
 37.G7gx6g P*6f    38.Gx6f   S*6i    39.N*1d   K-3a    40.S*5i   Sx7h+
 41.Kx7h   Sx2e    42.Px2e   Lx1c    43.Lx1e   Lx1d    44.Lx1d   R-9d
 45.+B-2h  R-3d+   46.L-1b+  N*7d    47.P*6g   Nx6f    48.Px6f   +Rx2e
 49.L*2g   +R-3f   50.+Lx2a  Kx2a    51.B-1c+  G*2b    52.+B1c-4fP*7g
 53.Nx7g   +R-1f   54.N*3e   N*7d    55.S*7e   L*6b    56.P*2d   Nx6f
 57.Sx6f   Lx6f    58.Px2c+  S*6g    59.K-8i   P*2f    60.+Px2b  Kx2b
 61.P*2c   K-3a    62.Nx4c=  Sx4c    63.+B-2d  P*3c    64.G*5c   R-9b
 65.+B-6d  resigns

tombo