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Title
69th SHOKUDAN-SEN S-Class Preliminary League
Player
Naofumi Minami (RICOH) vs. Yasutoshi Kobayashi (Process Material)
Date
Oct. 1st, 1995
Place
BUDOUKAN, Tokyo Japan
Anotation : Naofumi Minami
translated by Takeshi Miyao <http://www.ccsi.com/~miyao>

My opponent, Mr. Kobayashi, is a very strong player, who has beaten some Pros successively and has been printed in a magazine.

This is my first time to play him as an official game, but I have never defeated him even in any unofficial ones. I lead this game to Yodohuribisha(Yodo Ranging Rook) strategy which is my favorite tactics.

19. S-3h was
the move Mr. Tajiri taught me, who belonged to Ricoh, even though my favorite move was G-3h because S-3h might lose a tempo. Consequently, it seemed to be the cause of victory.

20. S-2b was
the move I did not like to do, even if some players actually did. It should be K-2b even though the sequence P-6e, P-2e might be unpleasant.

21. P-5e was
the only move in this situation. Any dan would consider this move, but any kyu might not. This feeling may be the difference between dan and kyu players.

27. P*4e was
the move which I considered long. I tried to keep my good position by this move, even if the situation was still close. The alternative was S-5f.

35. R-5d was
a dubious move. The sequence R-5a, G*5b, Rx6a, Gx6a, P-3e was better.

44. G*4a was
a losing move to him. The pawn at 3f should have been utilized effectively at this stage.

47. P*3d.
I confirmed my win by this move.

53. Bx4e was
the move by which I set up a brinkmate while I escaped my sudden death.

From 54. P-3c+,
it was a forced mate.

I felt this was a satisfactory game to me. Our team Ricoh beat Process Material by 4-1 including my win, however, we were defeated by Algorithm Kenkyusho by 2-3 (I also lost). Our team could not proceed to the final.

The team which won the championship at the last SHOKUDAN-SEN S-Class League could not proceed to the final in these two meetings successively. This fact showed that the strength of S-Class teams were very close. Next time, we'd like to try our best.

The Moves

1 P-7f P-3d 2 P-6f P-8d
3 S-6h S-6b 4 S-6g P-5d
5 S-4h G6a-5b 6 P-4f S-4b
7 S-4g G-3b 8 P-3f K-4a
9 P-2f P-8e 10 B-7g P-7d
11 R-8h S-3c 12 K-4h B-3a
13 K-3h P-4d 14 G6i-5h G5b-4c
15 N-3g P-1d 16 P-1f S-7c
17 P-5f B-4b 18 K-2h K-3a
19 S-3h P-2d 20 G-4g S-2b
21 P-5e Px5e 22 P-6e S-3c
23 Bx5e G-5d 24 B-7g Gx6e
25 P-4e P*5e 26 Px4d Sx4d
27 P*4e S-3c 28 R-5h R-5b
29 G-4f S-6d 30 P*6f G-5f
31 Sx5f Px5f 32 Rx5f S*5e
33 R-5i P*5f 34 Gx5e Sx5e
35 S*6a R-5d 36 G*6e R-5a
37 P*5b Rx6a 38 Gx5e P-3e
39 Rx5f Px3f 40 Rx3f P*3e
41 R-5f S*6g 42 R-5g Sx7f+
43 P-4d P-3f 44 S*4c G*4a
45 P*3d +Sx7g 46 Px3c+ Gx3c
47 P*3d G-2c 48 Rx7g B*4f
49 G-4e B4b-6d 50 Gx4f Bx4f
51 S*4b K-2b 52 Sx4a Rx4a
53 Bx4e G*3e 54 P-3c+ Gx3c
55 G*3b Gx3b 56 Sx3b+ Kx3b
57 S*2c Kx3c 58 G*3d Gx3d
59 Sx3d+ resigns.