Posts Tagged ‘kisei’
Kisei Game 4
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Kisei game 4 started today. Yamashita Keigo, the title holder, leads 2:1 so far.
Yoda Norimoto, the challenger, has to win this game to really stay in the game, since it is psychologically very hard to recover from 3:1 (and statistically unlikely).
Kisei Title: Yoda wins game 3
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Game 3 of the Kisei Title was won by the challenger, Yoda Norimoto, by half a point. Yamashita Keigo is leading now by 2:1.
Interestingly, all 3 games so far were very close: 1.5, 0.5 and 0.5 points.
Next game will be played on February 19th and 20th (Japan time).
For more photos from game 3 see the Yomiuri online page.
Here is the game record:
Kisei Title: Yamashita-Yoda 2:0
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Takao Shinji Captures Judan Title from Cho Chikun
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Takao Shinji won the Judan title match 3-0 against veteran Cho Chikun. Takao is also holding the Honinbo title.
Here is the game record .
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Yamashita defeats Cho in game 7, keeps Kisei title
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Game 7 was played on March 19 and 20, 2008. This was the last game of the series: the Kisei title is a “best of seven” match, and the score before this was 3-3.
Yamashita won by resignation and kept the Kisei title.
Kisei Title: the final game
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
The first day of game 7 of the Kisei title has ended. This is the last game of the series because the Kisei title follows a “best of seven” system, and the score so far is 3-3.
The following diagram shows the position at the end of day 1. The last move was Yamashita’s (White) 44. Cho will likely play the sealed move as a jump to the left of his stones in the center, putting pressure on the White group in the center-left.
Kisei title goes all the way to the 7th game
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Cho Chikun won game 6 of Kisei by 4.5 points and evened the score to 3-3 (after being led 3-1 earlier).
Kisei Title, game 6, day 1
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Yamashita leads 3 to 2 after the first 5 games: one more win and he can keep the Kisei title one more year, while Cho needs 2 consecutive wins to capture the title.
After day 1 in game 6 I like Yamashita’s (Black) position more: after the first 47 moves or so White had to invade Black’s deep moyo and felt under attack, so Black built a lot of thickness in the center. And the attack is not over yet.
Kisei Title: Cho closes the gap
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Kisei game 5 ended with Cho’s 3.5 points victory.
Kisei Title, game 5, day 1
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Game 5 of the Kisei title started today: Cho (Black) played the last move of day one (49, in the upper-right corner) before Yamashita sealed his next move.
While Cho cannot afford to lose any other game, Yamashita has a comfortable 3-1 lead so he only needs to win one of the next 3 games (including this one) in order to win this match and keep the title.
