Shogi News; Asahi cup shogi open . KUMASAKA won over SHIMIZU .

Shogi News; 2nd Asahi cup shogi open ; first preround tournament .

A game of Ashahi cup shogi open between KUMASAKA and SHIMIZU started 16 July 2008 .


Sente; SHIMIZU Ichiyo ( Joryu-Osho , Kurashiki-Touka)
Gote; KUMASAKA Manabu (4 dan)

(diagram 1)

1. P-2f P-3d
2. P-7f B-3c
3. S-4h R-2b
4. K-6h S-4b
(diagram 1)










SHIMIZU naturally opened her Bishop's line ; P-7f , and pushed her Rook's Pawn ; P-2f .
KUMASAKA selected "Yonteme San-San Kaku senpou" ; 2...B-3c .
In many games , many professional shogi players reply 3. Bx3c+ , but SHIMIZU didn't select the Bishop exchange line . Then KUMASAKA ranged his Rook to 2b ; " Mukai Bisha ". After 3...R-2b , SHIMIZU still could exchange Bishops , but she didn't . She started moving her King to make a castle .

(diagram 2)

5. K-7h K-6b
6. P-5f K-7b
7. S-5g P-5d
8. S-6f S-5c
9. B-7g K-8b
10. K-8h S-7b
11. L-9h P-6d
12. B-8f G-5b(4a)
13. K-9i P-6e
14. S-7g G-6c
15. G-7h P-7d
16. G-5h(4i) P-8d
17. S-8h(7g) S-6d
18. G-5g R-5b
19. R-5h P-9d
(diagram 2)


KUMASAKA also started making the castle , made "Mino gakoi " and advanced it to "Takamino gakoi ". In the other hand , SHIMIZU made "Ibisha Anaguma".

After 122 moves until P'7f , KUMASAKA won this game .

You can see this game on the Net .
http://live.shogi.or.jp/asahi/kifu/20080716asahi_11.html