From: Larry Kaufman comcast net> Date: 6 jul 2006 Subject: Habu and Moriuchi at World Open This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C6A090.2AE93860 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In the past week, the world's two top ranked professional Shogi players, multiple title holders Habu and Moriuchi, participated in the huge World Open Chess tournament in Philadelphia. Habu scored 6 out of 9, including one win and two losses against grandmasters, thus earning his first International Master norm (he needs two more for the title). Moriuchi scored 5 out of 9, not enough for an International Master norm but almost certainly enough to earn the FIDE Master title (the rank just below International Master). Currently, Japan has only one International Master and two FIDE masters. The two shogi stars are likely to be rated #1 and #3 in western chess among Japanese players on the next list. If anyone doubts the correlation of chess ability and shogi ability, this should convince them otherwise! By the way, Habu told me that we had played a handicap game in Japan at the Shinjuku Shogi center about twenty years ago, which I didn't remember because he was not yet so famous, just a new Pro. I do remember playing a young pro then and there, so that was surely him. Neither of us remembers the result! Larry Kaufman --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.bnuqMa.c2hvZ2kt Or send an email to: shogi-unsubscribe topica com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^---------------------------------------------------------------- ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C6A090.2AE93860 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
     In the past week, the world's two top ranked professional Shogi players, multiple title holders Habu and Moriuchi, participated in the huge World Open Chess tournament in Philadelphia. Habu scored 6 out of 9, including one win and two losses against grandmasters, thus earning his first International Master norm (he needs two more for the title). Moriuchi scored 5 out of 9, not enough for an International Master norm but almost certainly enough to earn the FIDE Master title (the rank just below International Master). Currently, Japan has only one International Master and two FIDE masters. The two shogi stars are likely to be rated #1 and #3 in western chess among Japanese players on the next list.
     If anyone doubts the correlation of chess ability and shogi ability, this should convince them otherwise!
     By the way, Habu told me that we had played a handicap game in Japan at the Shinjuku Shogi center about twenty years ago, which I didn't remember because he was not yet so famous, just a new Pro. I do remember playing a young pro then and there, so that was surely him. Neither of us remembers the result!
 
     Larry Kaufman
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