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I followed a live game on Cyberoro: Takemiya Masaki 9p against Yamada Takuji 7p.

Yamada was an A-class insei when I became insei in Japan, then he soon won the pro qualification. We both lived in the “Igo Kenshu Center” (Go study center) for a while (so did Kato Keiko who is currently defending her Meijin title against Xie Yimin).

Yamada played 2 unusual moves against Takemiya in the beginning of the game. First White 8 is unusual (normally White plays hane below Black 7):

Then look at White 38: tsuke against the hoshi stone!

I guess somebody was in a quite inspired mood

It payed off for Yamada, since he won the game by 2.5 points. Link to complete game record.

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