From: Reijer Grimbergen yz yamagata-u ac jp> Date: 03 mar 2005 Subject: This week in Shukan Shogi (no. 1081, February 2nd 2005) Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a FREE* MP3 Player - yours to keep! Click Here Now! http://click.topica.com/= caadeMpa2i6YsbnuqMaa/MP3 Player Giveaway ------------------------------------------------------------------- In this Shukan Shogi report the third game of the Osho match between=20 Moriuchi and Habu. Another fine performance by Habu, who won his third=20 straight game and seems very close to taking back the Osho title he lost= =20 last year to Moriuchi. Here is the game with comments: [Black "Moriuchi Toshiyuki, Osho"] [White "Habu Yoshiharu, Challenger"] [Event "54th Osho-sen, Game 3"] [Date "January 27th and 28th 2005"] 1.P7g-7f 00:01:00 00:00:00 2.P3c-3d 00:01:00 00:02:00 3.P6g-6f 00:01:00 00:02:00 4.R8b-3b 00:01:00 00:18:00 5.S7i-7h 00:07:00 00:18:00 6.K5a-6b 00:07:00 00:19:00 7.S7h-6g 00:07:00 00:19:00 8.P3d-3e 00:07:00 00:32:00 9.B8h-7g 00:07:00 00:32:00 10.G4a-5b 00:07:00 00:33:00 11.P8g-8f 00:15:00 00:33:00 12.S7a-7b 00:15:00 00:36:00 13.P7f-7e 00:16:00 00:36:00 14.S3a-4b 00:16:00 00:43:00 15.P8f-8e 00:40:00 00:43:00 16.P5c-5d 00:40:00 01:00:00 17.R2h-8h 00:53:00 01:00:00 18.S4b-5c 00:53:00 01:06:00 19.S3i-2h 00:59:00 01:06:00 20.K6b-7a 00:59:00 01:16:00 21.G6i-5h 01:14:00 01:16:00 22.P3e-3f?! 01:14:00 02:06:00 Ai-Furibisha like in game 1. The opening has been relatively quiet, but=20 with this move the pace suddenly picks up. Habu thought he could safely=20 exchange pawns on 3f here, but this is based on a miscalculation. 23.P4g-4f 01:41:00 02:06:00 Habu intended to answer this with 24.S6d, but overlooked that after=20 25.P8d Px8d Rx8d P*8c black can defend the pawn on 7e with R8e. 24.P3fx3g+ 01:41:00 03:11:00 25.S2hx3g 01:41:00 03:11:00 26.P*3f!? 01:41:00 03:11:00 Black wants to use 22.P3f to get into a Yagura castle. This is not=20 necessarily bad for white, but is considered the best castle in=20 Ai-Furibisha games. Allowing black to build this strong castle is not=20 what Habu intended, so he himself felt he was in trouble here. 26.P*3f=20 is a very difficult move to play. It stops black from building a Yagura=20 castle, but this pawn on 3f is very weak and white will lose it at some=20 point. The question is if white can get enough attack in compensation. A= =20 brave decision by Habu. 27.S3g-2f 01:44:00 03:11:00 28.P6c-6d 01:44:00 03:11:00 29.G5h-4g 01:52:00 03:11:00 30.G5b-6c 01:52:00 03:13:00 31.S6g-7f 02:42:00 03:13:00 32.S5c-4d 02:42:00 03:14:00 33.S2f-2e? 04:27:00 03:14:00 The sealed move. Moriuchi took 105 minutes for this move, but later=20 regretted it. This wins the pawn on 3f, but white gets a good attack=20 against black's sitting king in return. Better would have been 33.R3h.=20 Moriuchi feared 34.S3e after that, but then 35.Sx3e Rx3e Gx3f R3b G5h=20 S*2h Rx2h Rx3f S*3g Habu admitted that he did not have much confidence=20 in the white position. 34.S4d-5e 04:27:00 03:42:00 35.S7f-6g 04:36:00 03:42:00 36.P7c-7d! 04:36:00 03:53:00 The point. 37.Px7d Gx7d P5f fails to P*7f Sx7f Sx6f. 37.P5g-5f 04:41:00 03:53:00 38.P3f-3g+! 04:41:00 03:55:00 The second blow. 39.Nx3g fails to 40.Sx4f Gx4f Rx3g+. 39.G4gx3g 04:53:00 03:55:00 This gold is now in a very odd position. The central file is now very=20 weak and that is where the black king still is. White is better. 40.S5e-4d 04:53:00 03:55:00 41.P7ex7d 04:56:00 03:55:00 42.P5d-5e 04:56:00 04:08:00 43.R8h-5h 05:30:00 04:08:00 44.P5ex5f 05:30:00 04:30:00 45.P*3c 05:43:00 04:30:00 46.R3bx3c 05:43:00 04:38:00 47.P*3d 05:43:00 04:38:00 48.R3c-3b 05:43:00 04:38:00 49.S6gx5f 05:43:00 04:38:00 50.R3b-5b 05:43:00 04:39:00 51.P6f-6e 06:24:00 04:39:00 52.P*5g 06:24:00 05:16:00 53.R5hx5g 06:24:00 05:16:00 54.G6cx7d! 06:24:00 05:16:00 Doesn't look like much, but this laid back move invites Moriuchi's final= =20 mistake. It is very tempting to force the issue with 54.P*7f B8h S4e=20 (Px4e Bx8h+), but then Bx2b+ Sx5f Rx5f Rx5f P*5h is much more unclear=20 than the nice looking silver move promised. 55.P*5e? 06:29:00 05:16:00 The decisive mistake. The only move was 55.P3c+ and then after 56.Bx3c=20 P*5c Rx5c P*5d Rx5d P*5e R5a S3d B2d Sx2c+ B4b P4e black is still pretty= =20 strong in the center and it is hard for white to break through. 56.N8a-7c 06:29:00 05:21:00 There is no good defense against Nx6e. 57.P3d-3c+ 06:40:00 05:21:00 58.B2bx3c 06:40:00 05:23:00 59.S2e-3d 06:40:00 05:23:00 60.S4dx5e 06:40:00 05:32:00 Winning. White breaks through in the center and black can not fight back= =20 with a sitting king. 61.S5fx5e 06:41:00 05:32:00 62.N7cx6e 06:41:00 05:36:00 63.R5g-5f 06:41:00 05:36:00 64.N6ex7g+ 06:41:00 05:42:00 65.S3dx3c+ 06:47:00 05:42:00 66.B*6g 06:47:00 05:48:00 67.P*5c 06:47:00 05:48:00 68.R5bx5c 06:47:00 05:56:00 69.B*2f 06:49:00 05:56:00 70.B6gx5f+ 06:49:00 05:58:00 71.B2fx5c+ 06:49:00 05:58:00 72.K7a-8a 06:49:00 05:58:00 Resigns 07:00:00 05:58:00 There is no immediate win for white here, but for example the quick=20 escape 73.K4h fails to 74.Nx3c G4g R*8h and black can only extend the=20 game without hope of survival. The fact that white can pick up the=20 silver on 3c whenever he wants is more than the black position can take.= =20 Another strong performance by Habu, who now only needs one more win from= =20 four games to win back the Osho title. --=20 Reijer Grimbergen Department of Informatics, Yamagata University Jonan 4-3-16, Yonezawa, 992-8510 Japan Tel: +81-(0)238-26-3740 FAX: +81-(0)238-26-3299 http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/ Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Get both the PlayStation2 and Game Cube for Free! 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