From: Doug Dysart KASPAROVCHESS COM> Date: 1 oct 2000 Subject: OJ's Best Shogi Games (10/00) OJ's Best Games - October, 2000 The Ohio Junisen (OJ) began less than 4 weeks ago, and already 80 rated games have been played among 8 players. The Junisen has really kicked some life into the Ohio Shogi Club. In the last few months we've doubled our size, and the amount of shogi being played has increased much more than that. I probably play 3 times as much as I used to, and that goes for most Ohio players. The real news is how well the new guys are doing. There have been all kinds of big upsets. John Miller is scalping everybody, and Jason Childress is following his lead. John's had a funny effect on other players - he won three games by illegal rook move in just one week!! Our British import, Dr. Alan Baker, became the second-ever dan player in Cincinnati last week, and he looks to be a strong contender for Ohio Meijin. Robert Chenault came back to the club, and he's getting in shape to make a run for the title as well. One funny thing about the OJ is that only wins count in the standings. Thus, some of the top players have losing records! In the komaochi branch, I was in first place with a losing record for some time. In the hirate branch, Ram Lewis (7-8) is tied for second place with John Miller (7-11). The point is to get players playing as much as possible, and it's really worked fabulously. In fact, this system is so successful that the People's Chess Club (our USCF affiliate) will be trying it in chess as well! The winners of each Junisen branch get to play in the Meijin-sen final, and with two months to go, there's no telling who will finish first. The trick is to make every possible shogi meeting. Here are OJ's best games of September. If you have ShogiView, you can plunk the even games in and click away. Feel free to submit comments! [TITLE Ohio Junisen, Hirate Branch] [BLACK Robert Chenault] [WHITE John Miller] [9-30-2000 Doug Dysart's house Sente - ELO 1403 Gote - ELO 776 Opening: Nakabisha Here's a game between the Ohio Shogi Club's most aggressive player, Robert Chenault, and its newest player, John Miller, who's been setting the place on fire with wins over the strongest players. This game helped catapult John into a tie with Ram Lewis for second place in the Hirate OJ. ] 1. P-7f 2. G4a-3b [John Miller has only been playing shogi off and on for a few months. Then, just one week ago, John became the 7th paid member of the Ohio Shogi Club, setting a membership record, and invigorating him to play shogi like a maniac. He even set the record for most games in one night - 11! Suddenly, John is contending for the Ohio Meijin title!] 3. R2h-5h [Rob Chenault has always played this opening, since learning the game a year ago. He's still battling rust since coming back just a couple days ago. When he's in good form, he can beat anybody. It's interesting that he came back, right after Alan Baker moved into town. Both of them, along with club founder Doug Dysart, are avid Nakabisha players. There should be some interesting Ai-Nakabisha games in the future!] 4. G6a-5b 5. P-5f 6. S7a-7b [John is still learning the game, but his chess aptitude is what keeps his shogi dynamic. You'll notice thathis opening is unconventional, to say the least. I believe that once he gets his hands on some English shogi books, like the holy book "The Art Of Shogi," he will be a very tough man to beat. ] 7. K-4h 8. P-8d 9. K-3h 10. K-4a 11. K-2h 12. P-8e 13. B8h-7g 14. P-3d 15. P-6f 16. S7b-8c 17. G6i-7h 18. P-5d 19. S7i-6h 20. S3a-4b [Although John needs more help on castling than anything else, here he does successfully make a kani gakoi (crab castle). ] 21. S6h-5g 22. S4b-5c 23. S5g-4f [Rob is holding off on his kata mino castle, but he should complete it before starting the fight.] 24. P-4d 25. P-6e 26. G5b-4c 27. P-5e 28. Px5e 29. S4fx5e 30. P*5d 31. P-6d 32. Px6d 33. S5e-6f 34. P-4e 35. G7h-6g 36. S8c-7d 37. G6g-5f 38. P-6e 39. S6fx6e 40. S7dx6e 41. B7gx2b+ 42. G3bx2b 43. G5fx6e 44. B*6g 45. B*6c 46. S*5b 47. G6ex5d 48. S5cx5d 49. R5hx5d [As you can see, this is going to be a bloody battle. Rob always plays a no-holds-barred style, which creates some fun games to watch.] 50. G4cx5d 51. B6cx5d+ 52. B6gx4i+ [Because Rob was so eager to fight immediately, he never castled completely, thus allowing this devastating hit. Had he just taken one move to bump up his silver, he could hope to thwart his opponent's attack long enough to get a mate of his own. Now the endgame will be tough for both players.] 53. S3i-3h 54. +B4i-6g 55. P*5c 56. S5bx5c 57. +B5dx5c 58. G*4b 59. S*5b [A good way to keep the attack going. Material must be jettisoned vigorously to make sure the attack is maintained.] 60. G4bx5b 61. G*3a 62. K-5a 63. +B5c-7a 64. R8b-8d [Here John demonstrates his greediness. The hanging rook can be ignored while John goes for tsume instead, i.e. +B-5g threatening S*3i.] 65. P*5c 66. G5b-6b 67. P-5b+ [Possibly Rob was in time pressure. This sort of sequence is an indicator that one player just gave up pawns to survive byoyomi.] 68. Kx5b 69. S*4a 70. K-6c 71. +B7ax6b 72. Kx6b 73. G*5b 74. K-6c 75. S*7e 76. R8d-5d [Again John simply is too materialistic. He should attack.] 77. P*6d 78. K-7b 79. G3ax2a 80. G2bx2a [And again, this gold could be ignored.] 81. N*8d 82. K-8c 83. P-6c+ 84. G*7a [What is Gote afraid of?] 85. G5b-6b 86. G7ax6b 87. +Px6b 88. G*8b [John has great potential to become a shodan, but first he must leave these defensive moves behind and become an attacker. Shogi is a racing game.] 89. +P-7a 90. R*7h [The first aggressive move in some time.] 91. +Px8a 92. G8bx8a [Now John misses a clear tsume. 92. S*3i would decide things, and 92. Rx3h+ 93. Kx3h 94. S*4i 95. K2h 96. S*3i would be an even prettier mate.] 93. N*9e 94. K-8b 95. G*8c 96. K-7a 97. G8cx7c 98. G*8b 99. N9e-8c+ 100. K-6a [Both players are in time trouble here, and the OJ rules allow for players to stop keeping score in byoyomi, so the game score ends here. Looking at the position, who do you think won? John did in fact win shortly after this position. John clearly needs some work in all phases of the game, but he's been rapidly improving each game, so I expect the next published game of his will be quite good.] [TITLE Ohio Junisen, Hirate Branch] [BLACK Dr. Alan Baker, 1D] [WHITE Ramdake Lewis, 2K] [9-20-2000 Papa Dino's restaurant Sente's ELO - 1750 Gote's ELO - 1479 Opening: Aifuribisha Here is a much anticipated clash between two chess masters who happen to also be two of the strongest Ohio shogi players. Ram has been talking about being the clear #2 in the club (behind Doug Dysart), and he's won matches against Rob Chenault, Steve Carpenter, and Josh Krekeler to prove it. With the addition of Dr. Baker from Britain, he must once again fight for that distinction.] 1. P-7f 2. P-3d 3. P-6f [When Alan chooses not to play his favorite Nakabisha, he usually plays this move. Now there's no telling which file his rook will go to, but I do think he favors the Shikenbisha a bit.] 4. R8b-3b [Lately Ram has left his Ibisha behind and begun playing what he dubs, "Ram's Ranging Rook." No, it's not a revolutionary system, but it sounds cool nonetheless.] 5. B8h-7g 6. K-6b 7. R2h-8h [Because Ram chose Sankenbisha, I am not surprised that Alan went this route, especially since he's played this against me.] 8. K-7b 9. K-4h 10. P-3e 11. S3i-2h 12. S3a-4b 13. S7i-6h 14. S4b-3c [This is a little unusual. 14. P-3f was in order.] 15. P-8f 16. K-8b 17. P-8e 18. S7a-7b 19. K-3h 20. S3c-4d 21. G4i-4h 22. N2a-3c [Also quite unusual. This horse should come out after P-3f, Px3f, Rx3f, P*3g, R3d.] 23. G6i-5h [Both sides have castled; Sente has the Twin Gold castle and Gote has a kata mino. Gote's choice of castle is wrong, though - it is weak against the frontal assault. He will need to do something about this quickly to avoid certain doom.] 24. S4d-4e 25. P-8d 26. Px8d 27. R8hx8d 28. P*8c [I wonder if 28. S-8c and 29. P*8d, going for a gin kamuri is asking too much of the position.] 29. R8d-8e [I believe this is called a "chuzabisha."] 30. P-7d [Gote may be thinking about a migi yagura, my first choice here.] 31. P-4f 32. N8a-7c [Not! Quite a bold move. Caution hath been thrown to the wind.] 33. R8e-5e [Touche!] 34. P-5d 35. R5ex4e 36. N3cx4e 37. Px4e 38. G4a-5b [With Sente's rook gone, this complete mino is pretty satisfactory. ] 39. P-7e [After Rob Chenault, Alan is our most aggressive player. He disregards material and always goes for a straight-forward blitz.] 40. R*8d 41. Px7d 42. R8dx8i+ 43. Px7c+ 44. S7bx7c 45. G5h-5i [Good shape.] 46. P-3f 47. Px3f 48. B2bx6f [Nice shot.] 49. B7gx6f 50. R3bx3f 51. P*3g 52. R3fx6f 53. P*6g 54. B*7d 55. S*5f 56. R6fx5f [This begins a decisive mating attack. At first glance, Sente seems like he has hope of defending this, but Gote plays perfectly from here. This game is very instructive.] 57. Px5f 58. B7dx5f 59. B*4g 60. N*4f 61. K-4i 62. B5fx4g+ 63. G4hx4g 64. +R8ix5i 65. S6hx5i 66. G*3h [Notice Ram's castle was not as proper as Alan's, yet he won decisively. Ram told me later that he's following a principle the pros use in which you delay castling in order to attack quickly, only castling when necessary. I think it's living dangerously, but it can definitely pay off often. You have to have a great sense of danger. Ram won this game with some beautiful technique. Maybe he is still undisputed #2 after all, but Alan will probably have something to say about that in the future. Stay tuned.] [TITLE Ohio Junisen, Hirate Branch] [BLACK Doug Dysart, 2D] [WHITE Dr. Alan Baker, 1D] [9-19-2000 Papa Dino's pizzeria Sente's ELO - 1925 Gote's ELO - 1750 Opening - Nakabisha This game was my first loss in the OJ. Alan attacked as usual, while I defended. This game my king wasn't as slippery as I would have hoped. Alan is a great addition to the club, and he will force me to become more aggressive.] 1. P-2f 2. P-3d 3. P-7f 4. P-4d 5. S3i-4h 6. P-5d 7. P-3f 8. S3a-4b 9. G4i-5h 10. R8b-5b [Nakabisha.] 11. K-6h 12. K-6b 13. K-7h [Funagakoi.] 14. K-7b 15. P-5f 16. K-8b 17. S7i-6h 18. S7a-7b 19. P-2e 20. B2b-3c 21. S4h-3g [Beginning a bogin attack.] 22. S4b-4c 23. S6h-5g 24. P-6d 25. G6i-6h [Triad castle. This castle may not be appropriate here. In the future I may shoot for a Lozenge, a Hidari Mino, or an Anaguma.] 26. S7b-6c [I don't understand this move. Isn't it unnecessary?] 27. S3g-2f 28. G4a-3b 29. P-3e 30. G6a-7b 31. P-1f [I played this to prevent the kaku from going to 1e. Was it a waste of time?] 32. P-1d [This makes me feel better. Alan could have challenged my last move... by ignoring it.] 33. Px3d 34. S4cx3d 35. R2h-3h 36. S3d-4c 37. P*3d 38. B3c-2b 39. S2f-3e 40. R5b-5a 41. P-2d 42. Px2d 43. S3ex2d 44. P*2c 45. S2d-3e 46. P-9d 47. P-9f [This move never seems to pay off for me. I will probably not play it in the future. It seems to waste time, and my king has yet to "bolt" that way.] 48. P-5e [This begins a nice sequence for Alan.] 49. Px5e 50. P-4e 51. P-4f 52. P*5d 53. P-3c+ 54. B2bx3c 55. S3e-3d 56. S4cx3d 57. R3hx3d 58. G3b-4c 59. R3d-3f 60. Px5e 61. Px4e 62. P-5f 63. R3fx3c+ [This was a bad blunder, but things were already looking grim. I have such a hard time with Alan's Nakabisha.] 64. N2ax3c 65. S5g-6f 66. N3cx4e [The gamescore ends here. Alan has a winning position, and I lost not long after. This game will serve as a good lesson for me.] [TITLE Ohio Junisen, Hirate Branch] [BLACK Stephan Carpenter, 1K] [WHITE Doug Dysart, 2D] [9-27-2000 Doug's house Sente's ELO - 1581 Gote's ELO - 1925 Opening: Yokofudori I hate this opening, yet I love it, too. It's a mean opening, and I usually hope to avoid it, but against Steve I felt my extra strength and experience would win for me. Unfortunately, Steve was feeling motivated to hurt me, and he did so in great style. This may be his best game ever.] 1. P-2f 2. P-8d 3. P-7f 4. P-3d 5. G6i-7h 6. P-8e 7. P-2e 8. G4a-3b 9. P-2d 10. Px2d 11. R2hx2d 12. P*2c 13. R2dx3d 14. B2b-3c [I thought this was the theoretical move.] 15. P-3f [A curious move.] 16. S7a-6b 17. S3i-4h 18. P-8f 19. Px8f 20. R8bx8f 21. G7h-7g [I felt confident that this was a bad move.] 22. R8f-8b [Now I wish I had tried a "chuzabisha" - 22. R-8e.] 23. P*8c 24. R8bx8c 25. P*8d [Well played by Sente.] 26. R8c-8b 27. N2i-3g 28. G6a-7b [In retrospect, this move looks bad. At the time I thought this would be the right move to protect against the frontal attack. A problem with my position is that I am weak on the side where Sente's rook is.] 29. N3g-2e 30. B3c-5e 31. G7g-8g [Whoa! Didn't see*that* coming!] 32. B5ex8h+ 33. S7ix8h 34. B*4e 35. R3d-3e 36. B4ex6g+ [This all looked correct. I wonder if it was a "beginner's move" to go for this promotion.] 37. P*2b [Ouch.] 38. R8bx8d 39. Px2a+ 40. P*3d 41. R3e-6e 42. +B6gx8i 43. +Px3a 44. +B8ix8h [Gotta go for it.] 45. S*8e 46. N*6g 47. K-5h 48. +B8h-7h [Going for a cheap mate shot. Was Rx8e better?] 49. S4h-5i 50. R8d-5d [Possibly too slow.] 51. +Px3b 52. N6gx5i+ [This may have been a big error. I could have squeezed first with S*3g. Now Sente's rook is an apt defender.] 53. G4ix5i 54. +B7hx8g [It's too late to be materialistic, but I thought this would come in handy for the endgame.] 55. G*5e 56. K-6a [This was in anticipation of R*4a. I also thought my king might need the bolt-hole created at 5c.] 57. G5ex5d 58. Px5d 59. +P-4b [Best.] 60. K-7a [A blunder. This is too much running.] 61. +P-5b 62. S*6a [A big blunder. Now a rook drop on the first rank will decide things.] 63. N*8d [Sente missed his first golden opportunity.] 64. S6ax5b [A sigh of relief, but only for a second.] 65. N8dx7b+ [Sente could have squeezed instead with a rook drop on the ninth file, i.e. 65. R*2a.] { 65. R*2a 66. S*4a 67. N8dx7b+ 68. Kx7b 69. N*8d 70. K-6a 71. B*8c 72. K-5a 73. G*6a 74. K-4b [Taking leads to mate...] { 74. S5bx6a 75. B8cx6a+ 76. Kx6a 77. R2ax4a+ 78. G*5a 79. S*7b [Tsume.] } 75. R2a-2b+ 76. K-5c [Gote's not mated yet, but it can't be long.] } 66. Kx7b 67. N*8d 68. K-6a 69. G*7b 70. K-5a 71. N2e-3c+ [Squeezing.] 72. S*4a [Ugh. It's amazing how much longer I last.] 73. R6e-6g [A mistake. You'll see why in a second.] 74. +B8g-8h [Best.] 75. R6gx6c [Typical Steve. Creative move, non-promotion (this is insult to injury!).] 76. +B8hx3c [Capturing the rook would lead to a quick death.] 77. G7bx6b 78. K-4b 79. G6bx5b 80. S4ax5b 81. S*5c 82. S5bx5c 83. R*5b 84. K-3a 85. R6cx5c+ 86. G*4b 87. S*2b [Yep. Look at Steve's finishing technique.] 88. Kx2b 89. R5bx4b+ 90. G*3b 91. S*3a 92. K-2a 93. +R4bx3c 94. G3bx3a 95. +R5cx4c [An endgame error. ] { 95. +R3cx3a 96. Kx3a 97. B*4b 98. K-2b 99. G*3c 100. K-1b 101. G*2b [Mate.] } 96. S*3b 97. P*2b 98. G3ax2b 99. +R3cx2b 100. Kx2b 101. G*3c [That's all she wrote and a banana boat. White resigns.] [TITLE Ohio Junisen, Hirate Branch] [BLACK Josh Krekeler, 2K] [WHITE Ram Lewis, 2K] [9-30-2000 Doug's house Sente's ELO - 1300 Gote's ELO - 1479 Opening: Mukaibisha These two have a nice rivalry going. If Josh works on his endgame, he will score more points against Ram.] 1. P-7f 2. P-3d 3. P-6f 4. P-3e 5. S3i-4h 6. P-8d [Very unusual.] 7. P-4f [If I had been Sente, I would have played a yagura, and later Gote's pawn on 3e would have proven to be a big mistake.] 8. P-8e 9. B8h-7g 10. S7a-7b 11. S4h-4g 12. S7b-8c 13. S7i-7h 14. S8c-8d 15. S7h-6g 16. P-9d 17. P-9f [At the 2000 New York World Shogi Overseas Championship, I was knocked out by Marc Theeuwen quickly after playing this move. Since then I have been very sensitive to this response to P-9d. I think Josh might have benn better off omitting this move.] 18. G4a-3b 19. R2h-8h [Up until now, Gote has had no clue where the rook was going.] 20. G6a-5b 21. K-4h 22. P-6d 23. K-3h 24. P-7d 25. G6i-7h [Sente could have opted to use this gold for his castle, i.e. G6i-5h- 4h. Now it may come in handy for a bokin attack; if not, the rook is misplaced. If he had decided to castle now, he would have had a dilemma with his misplaced gold on 3b. I'm almost surprised he didn't do the Ramdakian castle - S3a-4b-3c and K-4b. It hasn't been long since Ram was the "Sitting King" king. He has come a long way, but his castling methods still strike me as dubious.] 26. G5b-6c [Ram is following his new strategy of delaying castling as long as possible. Here this was a good idea, since he knew not where Josh's rook was going for a long time.] 27. K-2h 28. N8a-7c 29. G4i-3h [Both sides seem ready to rumble.] 30. S3a-4b 31. P-1f 32. S4b-3c 33. P-8f [Gotta do it sometime.] 34. Px8f 35. R8hx8f 36. S3c-3d [After the game, Ram said he thought 36. S-8e was better...] { 36. S8d-8e 37. R8f-8h 38. P*8f 39. P*8g 40. Px8g+ 41. G7hx8g 42. P*8f 43. G8gx8f 44. S8ex8f 45. R8hx8f 46. R8bx8f 47. B7gx8f 48. R*8h 49. R*8a 50. G*6a 51. S*7b 52. G6c-6b 53. S7bx6a+ 54. G6bx6a 55. G*7b 56. S*5b 57. G7bx6a 58. S5bx6a 59. G*7b 60. G*6b 61. G7bx6b 62. Kx6b 63. G*6c 64. Kx6c 65. R8ax6a+ 66. G*6b 67. S*5b [And Gote will win. Ram was surprised by this variation I found after the game.] } 37. P-5f 38. N2a-3c [That king is feeling a major draft. When I looked at this position, I thought that Josh would win simply because he's castled and Ram's not. Josh should attack like crazy.] 39. B7g-6h 40. K-4a 41. N8i-7g 42. K-3a 43. P-2f [It's easy to criticize this move. I would have tried 43. R-8i, possibly with a bokin attack to follow (the alternative would be to switch the rook to another file - this reminds me of the phrase "subway rook."] 44. K-2a [Unfortunately, the gamescore ends here. Ram somehow broke in without suffeing any casualties, while Josh lost a lot of material. Ram's tightrope act worked this time.] [TITLE Ohio Junisen, Hirate Branch] [BLACK Doug Dysart, 2D] [WHITE Josh Krekeler, 2K] [9-30-2000 Doug's house Sente's ELO - 1925 Gote's ELO - 1300 Opening: Mukaibisha Josh has been playing me tougher each day, and this game was a hard- fought win.] 1. P-2f 2. P-3d 3. P-7f 4. P-4d 5. S3i-4h 6. B2b-3c 7. S7i-6h 8. S3a-3b 9. P-5f 10. S3b-4c 11. P-3f 12. R8b-2b [Josh just recently started playing the Mukaibisha. It's a good opening for him. It will make him play more aggressively.] 13. G4i-5h 14. K-6b 15. S6h-5g 16. K-7b 17. K-6h 18. S7a-6b [I was really surprised to see Josh play an Edo castle. He's never been this type of attacker before.] 19. K-7h 20. G4a-3b 21. G6i-6h [Triad castle.] 22. P-9d 23. P-9f [I wonder about this "answer" move.] 24. P-5d 25. P-4f 26. P-2d 27. S5g-6f [I was going for a vanguard pawn attack originally...] 28. B3c-4b 29. S4h-5g [Triad again.] 30. N2a-3c 31. P-5e [Now I opt for P-5e instead of P-7e. This is because the vanguard pawn attack there would not have a silver right behind it on 7f.] 32. Px5e 33. S6fx5e 34. G6a-5b [I dunno about this one.] 35. S5ex4d 36. S4cx4d 37. B8hx4d 38. B4b-5c 39. B4d-8h 40. P*4c 41. S*4a 42. G5b-4b [I would have gone with the other gold.] 43. S4ax3b+ 44. G4bx3b 45. P*5d 46. B5c-4d [I expected 46. B-6d.] 47. B8hx4d 48. Px4d 49. G*5b 50. S*5a [I'm thinking 50. S*4b.] 51. P-5c+ 52. S5ax5b 53. +Px5b 54. S6b-7a 55. P*5d [Cheapos!] 56. P-2e [Better attack now.] 57. Px2e 58. N3cx2e 59. P*2f [A mistake. Both players are in byoyomi.] 60. S*3g 61. N2ix3g 62. N2ex3g+ 63. R2h-2i 64. P*2h [64. +N-3h was best. This pawn could have come in handy on the fifth file, too.] 65. R2i-7i 66. +N3g-2g [Waste of time.] 67. P-5c+ 68. R2bx2f 69. S*6a 70. K-8b 71. +P-6b 72. P-2i+ [Looks like a further waste of valuable time.] 73. R7ix2i [A byoyomi-style mistake. This tokin was in the way of Gote's big boys, but now I help them out.] 74. +N2g-2h 75. R2i-7i 76. R2f-2g+ 77. B*5d 78. B*5e [Good move.] 79. S5g-6f 80. B5ex4f 81. +Px7a [81. Bx6c+ was quicker.] 82. B4fx6h+ [Gote should also have tried 82. N*5f. The only reason this is bad is because now I have a bishop, which will make my mating attack decisive.] 83. G5hx6h 84. N*5f 85. G6h-5h [Another byoyomi boo boo. I missed a tsume here.] { 85. +Px8a 86. Kx8a { 86. K-9c 87. N*8e 88. K-8d 89. S6f-7e 90. Kx8e 91. N8i-7g [Mate.] } { 86. K-9b 87. S*9c 88. Kx9c 89. N*8e 90. K-9b 91. S*9c 92. Kx8a 93. B5dx6c+ 94. K-7a 95. +B6c-7b [Mate.] } 87. B5dx6c+ 88. K-9b 89. S*8a 90. K-9c 91. N*8e 92. K-8d 93. S6f-7e [Mate.] } 86. +R2g-3h [The tsume is still there.] 87. S*5i 88. G*4h [88. +Rx5h looked scary, but I would still mate first.] 89. S5ix4h 90. N5fx4h+ 91. P*5i [I missed the mate for many moves. Maybe I should discipline myself better to not write moves in byoyomi. It has hurt me numerous times. I'm beginning to think that scoring is difficult in any time control under 30/30s.] 92. +N4hx5h 93. Px5h 94. +R3hx5h 95. G*6h 96. +R5hx5d 97. +Px8a [And finally I went for the mate.] 98. K-9c 99. B*7a [Now Gote resigned. Mate comes after K-8d, S*7e, K-8e, P-8f, Kx7f, G-7g. This game showed a lack of initiative on my part. I didn't even look for a mate, instead looking for good defensive moves. With little time on one's clock, you tend to follow your instincts, and mine has always been to defend. This is something I need to overcome to make 3 Dan.] Ohio Junisen, Komaochi Branch Rook-Handicap Game Sente: Stephan Carpenter, 1K Gote: Doug Dysart, 2D --- P34 P*74 NX85 SX77 +BX77 P26 G32 P73+ K92 B*68 +BX86 P25 B33 SX63= NX97=? BX86 L*57 S48 K62 SX62+ L*81 K48 R*89 P56 K72 +S72 K93 B*76 S*87 S57 S62 P86? (+PX83!) G*79 SX76+ S66 S42 --- P*77 GX89 NX89+ S68 P94 NX77 P95 R*78 K87 P96 P44 N85 (S*85) B64 P*77 P76 S43 --- K94 R68 G*78 8S77 P45 R74 S*84 KX57 GX69 S86 P54 +PX83 LX83 R28 P78+ R78 P64 S*82 PX96 P24 PX24 P75 S63 N93+ K95 P46 +P77 S85 G62 +NX83 KX86 RX24 +PX67 P74 K82 RX84 P*85 K47 P*23 B97 P65 L*87 KX87 RX34 B*25 S75 BX99+ RX85 P*86 R36 G*35 S64 4S52 S*78 K98 L*28 PX46 PX73+ NX73 RX86 B*77 K38 GX36 ****************************************************** PX36 BX36 K37 B47+ K27 +BX29 BX46 R*47 K36 RX49+ P*47 +BX47 K45 +BX46 K54 G43 KX65 G*75 KX76! KX76!! 0-1 Ohio Junisen, Komaochi Branch 6P Handicap Game Sente: Jason Childress Gote: Doug Dysart, 2D --- G32 P76 G72 B66 S82 P86 P84 BX84 G83 B66 P74 P95 S73 L97 P54 R98 S84 P94 PX94 LX94 P93 LX93+ GX93 P94 G83 P85 L'64 B88 LX67+ P85 SX85 PX93+ G84 +P83 G94 P96 PX85 GX85 P23 P26 PX26 GX26 S97 Sente Resigns 0-1 Doug Dysart Ohio Shogi Club founder Great chess, great e-mail: http://www.KasparovChess.com