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Yamashita Wins Game 6, Defends Kisei Title 4:2
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Yamashita Keigo defended his Kisei title against challenger Yoda Norimoto by 4:2.
Yamashita, playing white, won the 6th game by 2.5p after building a lot of thickness in the center early on, which translated into a big moyo.
Game record for game 6 is here.
Kisei Title: 3:2 for Yamashita
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Yamashita Keigo won game 5 of the Kisei title by 5.5 points, bringing the score of the best-of-seven final to 3:2. He’s just one win away from defending his title against Yoda Norimoto.
Here is the game record.
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You can see all games so far here.
More photos here.
Next game will be played on March 11th and 12th. Kisei Title, Game 5
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
The first day of the 5th game of the Kisei title final starts today. Title holder Yamashita Keigo and challenger Yoda Norimoto are tied 2:2 after the first four games. Yamashita plays black in this game.
Funny photo taken the day before the match started: the two players are “testing” the goban:
Check the official match page for game progress and photos of the players and of the game venue.
Kisei Title: Yoda Wins Game 4, Evens the Score 2:2
Friday, February 20th, 2009Yoda Norimoto, the challenger in this year’s Kisei title, won game 4. The score is now 2:2, and the fate of the title game will be decided in the last 3 games.
Next game will be played on February 25th and 26th.
Here is the game record.
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 defended the Honinbo title 4-1
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
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.
Honinbo Title, game 2, day 1
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
First game of Honinbo Title starts today
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
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” 
