SATOMI won the 3rd game and she defended her title "Jo-ryu Meijin" !

Shogi News : The 37th Jo-ryu Meijin sen ; 5 games title match


4:45 P.M. (JST) , 15 February 2011 , after 109 moves , SATOMI won the 3rd game of the Jo-ryu Meijin sen title match . Then the score of this match becomes "SATOMI 3 --- 0 SHIMIZU" , and SATOMI succeeded to defend her title Jo-ryu Meijin !


You can see the original game record on the Net .
http://live.shogi.or.jp/joryumeijin/kifu/20110215.html
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Sente : SATOMI Kana (Jo-ryu Meijin , Jo-ryu Osho , Kurashiki Tohka)
Gote : SHIMIZU Ichiyo (Jo-ryu 6 dan)

(diagram 1)

1.P-7f P-8d
2.P-6f S-6b
3.R-7h P-8e
4.B-7g K-4b
5.S-6h P-3d
6.K-4h K-3b
7.S-3h G6a-5b
8.K-3i P-1d
9.P-1f P-7d
10.G6i-5h P-5d
11.P-5f S-5c
12.K-2h P-2d
13.P-2f K-2c
14.S-2g S-3b
15.G-3h S-4d
16.S-6g B-3a
17.B-6h B-5c
18.P-6e R-8c
19.P-3f P-8f
(diagram 1)

SATOMI closed her Bishop line with 2.P-6f and swung the Rook with 3.R-7h making Sanken Bisha form . SHIMIZU made Funa gakoi and SATOMI made Hon mino gakoi .

SHIMIZU developed her Kakoi to Hidari mino (Tenshukaku mino version ) and SATOMI also developed her Kakoi to Kata Ginkanmuri . Replying SATOMI's 19.P-3f , SHIMIZU pushed the 8th file Pawn with 19...P-8f to start attacking .

(diagram 2)

20.Px8f Bx8f
21.N-7g B-4b
22.P*8e P*8f
23.R-8h N-7c
24.P-7e Bx7e
25.B-4f P-5e
26.Px5e B-4b
27.P-5d Nx8e
28.Nx8e Rx8e
29.N*5c G4a-5a
30.S-7f P-8g+
31.Sx8e +Px8h
32.Bx9a+ P*5g
33.Gx5g R*5i
34.+B-4f +Px9i
35.S-7f N*6b
36.P-2e Nx5d
37.Px2d K-3c
38.L*2f P*2e
39.Lx2e P*2b
40.N-3g Bx5c
41.+B-5f K-4b
42.P*5e Bx9g+
43.S-6g N-1c
44.G-5h R-6i+
45.+Bx3d Nx2e
46.Nx2e P*3g
47.G3h-4h +B-7e
48.Px5d L*2f
49.N*5i Lx2g+
50.Kx2g +Rx5h
51.Gx5h +B-3i
52.+Bx4d Px4d
53.S*3c K-4c
54.Sx3b= Kx5d
55.R*5e resigns
(diagram 2)

After 109 moves , SATOMI won the game .