Sota Fujii, the 21-year-old reigning Meijin and Ryuo, is on the verge of monopolizing all eight titles in the shogi world. On the 4th day, he secured the right to challenge for the remaining title, “Oza” by winning the Challenger Determination Match held at the Kansai Shogi Hall, Osaka City. In the drawing of lots, […]

https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/igoshougi/ryuoh/blog/20230731-SYT8T4402329/ The game was induced to bishop exchange opening by Nagase. It seemed like Nagase had control in the early stages with skillful maneuvering, leading Ito to a standard reclining silver position from a minor disadvantage in the bishop exchange opening. The main game demonstrated Ito’s accurate moves. Building an advantage with ▲Bishop-63, he gradually […]

https://news.biglobe.ne.jp/entertainment/0731/spn_230731_8428259936.html On 31st July, second qualifying round of the 73rd ALSOK Cup Osho Tournamentat was held in the Osaka Kansai Shogi Hall, and Yuki Sasaki (8-dan, 28 years old) won against Tetsuro Itotani (8-dan, 34 years old) in 130 moves. In the next round, Sasaki will compete against Akira Inaba (8-dan, 34 years old) for […]

The 94th Kisei tournament is in progress. Semifinal games of Akira Watanabe vs Daichi Sasaki and Takuya Nagase vs Yuki Sasaki were played on 20th April. Both games were double wing attack opening. Daichi Sasaki defeated Akira Watanabe. Daichi Sasaki got the pace in the middle of the game and he secured the advantage until […]

Takuya Nagase vs. Yoshiharu Hanyu was held on April 12, and Habu won the game. It was a semifinal stage of the 36th Ryuo tournament Group 1. In the final, Habu will face Akira Inaba 8th Dan. Habu and Inaba are entitled to proceed to the knock out round. The tournament table of 1st Group, […]

The round-robin round of 64th Oi Tournament is in progress. The tournament firstly starts from preliminary round to decide players who join the next round-robin round, where 12 players are separated into two groups (red and white). The winner from the each group will play the final match to decide the challenger to the previous […]

https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/igoshougi/20230309-OYT1T50003/ Sota Fujii, entitled 5 crowns of major tournaments this year, won the play off match in ranking league against Akihito Hirose, on 8th March. Fujii acquired the right to challenge to the current Master Akira Watanabe. The Master title match will start from 5th April 2023.The ranking league is segregated into 5 classes: Class […]

I would like to share a full game score of the Souta Fujii vs Yoshiharu Habu, played in 2020 during the Osho League, sponsored by Sport Nippon Newspapers and Mainichi Newspapers. I am happy to share the full game score since an official permission to use it in this web page was obtained. Needless to […]

https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASR25750KR25UCVL01B.html The challenger Sota Fujii (20) won against Akira Watanabe (38), the current Kio title holder, in the first round of the 48th Kio Battle 5th Match (sponsored by Kyodo News) held in Nagano City on the 5th-Feb 2023. Fujii holds the five crowns of Oi, Eio, Osho, Kisei, and Ryuo. And Watanabe holds two […]

https://mainichi.jp/articles/20230130/k00/00m/040/001000c Sota Fujii, the current Osho title holder, won the 3rd round of the Osho battle. The score became 2-1 for Fujii. As described in the previous article, Yoshiharu Habu, the most frequent champion of title battles ever, postponed his opening strategy at the very beginning of the game to perplex Fujii, and his choice […]