Takao Shinji defended the Honinbo title.
The challenger, Yoda Norimoto, only managed to win one out of 5 games.
Again, just like earlier this year in the Kisei title, the younger player defeated the more senior player.
All game records are on the Honinbo title page.
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).
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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