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Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 7:21 pm

by oren

Niconico will be showing all of the Honinbo matches live with commentary.

http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2013/05/10/310/index.html

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http://live.nicovideo.jp/

I've watched some of the big shogi matches there, and it's been interesting. It's great to see more Go there. One of the female kisei matches was on niconico earlier but that is a blitz game. Here are the two full day matches.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 8:38 pm

by logan

Thank-you for sharing oren.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 9:03 pm

by Redundant

Will there be vods of this commentary? I assume they're doing this as a stream. I'll almost certainly not be able to watch this live, but it sounds interesting.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 1:17 pm

by oren

Redundant wrote:Will there be vods of this commentary? I assume they're doing this as a stream. I'll almost certainly not be able to watch this live, but it sounds interesting.

You can do reserve timeshift on it and watch it the next day. (I think this is how it works)

They don't keep it up forever though.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 4:41 pm

by oren

Iyama won the first game by 4.5. Here is an sgf with the comments from wbaduk.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 6:31 pm

by oren

oren wrote:You can do reserve timeshift on it and watch it the next day. (I think this is how it works)

The reserve timeshift and watch the next day did work for me.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 9:47 am

by oren

Takao took game 2, series tied at 1-1.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 3:26 am

by gustav

Thank you so much for posting these, oren!

This was a really fascinating and entertaining game. I'm very much looking forward to studying the file. I could have sworn Iyama would win after the last big ko was settled.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 4:12 am

by ez4u

In his blog Takao says he felt relieved to finally win one after losing five 2-day games in a row to Iyama (he was blanked 0-4 in the 2010 Meijin).

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 9:29 am

by oren

Going by memory of what they were saying online, but I think his first 14 games against Iyama were 13-1 before going 2-2 last year?

http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/jp/honinbo.html
It says currently 17-5, so it's not far off.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 5:01 pm

by ez4u

It seems so. On the Honinbo competitor profile page it says they are 17-5 lifetime and 4-4 since 2011 (that's through 4/22).

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:52 pm

by gustav

In other news, Iyama lost today to Cho U in the Meijin league. This leaves Iyama with only theoretical chances to become the challenger.
Things are not going his way at the moment.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 11:16 am

by oren

Next game starts in about six hours.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:37 am

by oren

Takao takes game 3 in Kushiro, Hokkaido. He's now up in the series 2-1.

Re: Honinbo Series to be shown live on niconico

Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 2:00 am

by ez4u

Iyama wins game 4 (B+R) to tie series at 2-2.