:: Igo Hatsuyôron 120 (2015)

The History of the Problem's Final Score

(1999 - 2011)

(Referenced by 19)


In this chapter, we present in chronological order our main results, and findings, which are related to changes in the problem's final score. We start with Black winning the Capture Variation of Fujisawa Hideyuki by two points. Several small improvements in White's play - mainly discovered, and assembled, by Joachim Meinhardt; the final blow being an invention of Yamada Shinji - not only caused Black's lead to evaporate slowly, but eventually led to White winning the game. My discovery of two counter-intuitive moves brought Black back on the road to victory, winning the game by barely one point. At last, Harry Fearnley found a further improvement in Black's play, resulting in a final score of three points for Black.
Please note that, when we first did our analysis, we did not know the detailed contents of the original Japanese and Chinese sources before 2009. Our subsequent findings did not affect the problem's final score any more; you will find these in the following chapter ( 797).

1999 - 2001 - The Journey Begins 776
2002 - A Rediscovered Stone 778
2002 - Confirming the Score 779
2002 - Discovery - An Oki with a New Purpose 781
2005 - A Better Order for Occupying Black's Liberties 783
2007 - A New Move - Tsuke 787
2007 - A Second Throw-in Seems Possible 788
2007 - The Guzumi - Good Bad Shape 789
2009 - New Opportunity - The Hasami-Tsuke 790
2009 - The Semeai Variation 791
      For Comparison - the Capture Variation 793
2011 - Yamada Shinji's Tsuke Again 794

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