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First game of Honinbo Title starts today

Today is day 1 of the first game in Honinbo Title match. Yoda Norimoto is challenging Takao Shinji. It is interesting to see that the match is between the authors of last 2 Go books I read: Takao Shinji wrote “Pure and Simple: Takao’s Astute Use of Brute Force” and Yoda Norimoto wrote “Vital Points and Skillful Finesse for Sabaki”. (I bought both books from slateandshell.com a couple of months ago, I finished Yoda’s book and I’m almost done with Takao’s book – both are wonderful books, I highly recommend them). So let’s see what style is prevailing this year: “pure and simple” or “sabaki” :-)

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2 Responses to “First game of Honinbo Title starts today”

  1. bvowles says:
    May 9, 2007 at 10:00 am

    At what time GMT will the game start? Live on IGS I assume?

  2. Sorin says:
    May 9, 2007 at 10:14 am

    The title is live on IGS, according to:
    http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/

    The hours there are in Japan-time, which is GMT+9
    So the games begin at midnight GMT