Honinbo Title: 1-1
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007Yoda Norimoto won the second Honinbo Title game by 1.5 points, and the score so far is even 1-1.
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Honinbo Title, game 2, day 1
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
The first day of game 2 in Honinbo is over, and the game will be continued tomorrow.
Yoda Sensei played the sealed move in the middle of a complicated fight on the upper side.
While Takao Honinbo played 2 unusual moves in the opening of the first game, it was Yoda Sensei who played an unusual variation of the tsuke-nobi joseki in this second game (in the upper-left corner).
Takao Shinji wins game one in Honinbo title by the smallest margin
Friday, May 11th, 2007After a spectacular start and some fighting in the first day of Honinbo game 1, the dust settled early in the second day of playing and the result was a very close game which Takao won by half a point.
Spectacular start in Honinbo Title, day 1
Thursday, May 10th, 2007Takao Shinji played 2 rare contact plays in the first 20 moves in day 1 of the first game.
See the following 2 diagrams for Takao’s moves 9 and 17.
First game of Honinbo Title starts today
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007Today 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” 
