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Two unusual moves

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

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).

Yamda Takuji

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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What to do of an empty triangle when Takemiya Sensei’s watching

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

What to do of an empty triangle when Takemiya Sensei’s watching?

Here is a nice suggestion from the lovely emptytriangle.com Go comics website.

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Meijin Title : 1-0 for the title holder Takao Shinji

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Meijin Title started yesterday: title holder Takao Shinji won the first game by 4.5 points against the challenger and previous Meijin title holder, Cho U.

Takao built a huge moyo starting from the lower side, and that turned in the end into a huge territory.

It was interesting to see Takemiya giving the public game commentary - he must have been very happy with Black’s strategy, since he’s the one who’s name is associated with large moyo strategies.

Next game: September 19, 20.

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