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Overwiev of famous games
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Year: White x Black;
     Result; Why is it well-known?

1582: Nikkai, Honinbo Sansa x Kashio Rigen
***** tripple ko; at night after the game the
      emperor Nobunaga was killed. Since then
      the tripple ko is a bad sign. In the kifu
      there is no tripple ko, it is incomplete.

1625: Nakamura Doseki x Yasui Santetsu
      W+; first move was on the side

1682: Honinbo Dosaku (Meijin) x Peichin Hamahika (4handicap)
*     W+14; first official international match,
      Peichin visited Japan, but he was crushed
      by the go-saint in four handicap

1683: Honinbo Dosaku (Meijin) x Yasui Shunchi (2handicap)
****  B+1; Dosaku's masterpiece - 2 handicap lost by one
      point. Today's professionals say that the fuseki
      is aged, that today even amateurs would play it
      better, but in the middle game Shunchi played
      a sequence of excellent moves. How Dosaku was
      able to catch up to 1 point difference is nearly
      incomparable.

1705: Yasui Senkaku x Honinbo Dochi
***   B+1; Dochi's surprising endgame tesuji
      brought him 2 points and win

1792: Yasui Senchi Senkaku x Honinbo Retsugen
*     W+R; Senkaku's style - influence, Senkaku
      turned the game around with the fight

1812: Honinbo Genjo x Nakano Chitoku (Yasui Senchi)
*     B+R; move 69 looks nearly like a pass

1815: Honinbo Jowa x Hattori Rittetsu (Gennan Inseki)
      B+4; masterpiece of Gennan against his
      irreconcilable rival

1820: Yasui Senchi x Honinbo Jowa
*     B+2; marked as the best game of Edo period
      although black kept the advantage of the first
      move and won by two points, Senchi's amashi
      strategy is praised a lot

1835: Honinbo Jowa (Meijin) x Akaboshi Intetsu
***** W+R; blood-vomiting game. Jowa, who as a Meijin
***   couldn't afford to lose, had to face new secret
      trick joseki (move 33), that gave Akaboshi advantage.
      But Jowa then played three brilliant tesuji (68, 70,
      80) and turned the game around. After a week of
      playing Intetsu kolapsed, started to vomit blood,
      and died in a few days.

1842: Inoue Genan Inseki x Honinbo Shuwa
***   B+6; the match of two players, who had the strength
      of a Meijin, but didn't become Meijin. Jowa commented
      that Gennan was strong enough to become a Meijin but
      he was unfortunately born in a wrong time. In endgame
      Gennan was losing by one point, so he tried to live
      in the corner, but didn't manage to do it and the
      difference raised to 6 points.

1844: Honinbo Shuwa x Yasui Sanchi
*     B+1; move 63 is a very strange shape, it is nobi
      where you wouldn't expect it

1846: Inoue Genan Inseki x Kuwahara Shusaku
***** B+3; ear-redding game, legendary move 127 just
***** next to tengen, with which Shusaku surprised
      Gennan as well as onlookers and reversed
      unfavourable game

1851: Honinbo Shuwa x Honinbo Shusaku
****  B+4; well-known for fans of "Hikaru no Go",
      the first game between Touya Akira and
      Shindo Hikaru (Sai)

1852: Honinbo Shusaku x Ito Showa
**    W+R; confrontation of two generations, Shusaku
      (22) with white defeated Showa (50)

1853: Honinbo Shusaku x Ota Yuzo
***   W+3; with this game Shusaku forced Yuzo to
      handicap and won the most famous match of
      Edo period. Slow, but thick move 88 says:
      "Just this is enough to win".

1895: Honinbo Shuei x Tamamura Hoju (Honinbo Shusai)
**    W+2; the move 92 is well-known tesuji with
      escaping to geta, which saves white stones

1926: Honinbo Shusai (Meijin) x Karigane Junichi
***   W+T; Kiseisha vs Nihon Ki-in, one of the most
      difficult games in history, very fighting and
      effective game (70 move semeai, etc.), it was
      demonstrated on huge boardsin Tokyo gardens,
      and cotributed to popularization of go.

1929: Kitani Minoru x Go Seigen
***** W+3; Go Seigen plays mirror go to move 65,
      Kitani plays surprising tesuji 114

1933: Go Seigen x Kosugi Tei
***   W+R; famous "16 soldiers" in style of new
      fuseki, Go absolutely crashed his opponent
      using his influence and attacking all groups

1934: Honinbo Shusai (Meijin) x Go Seigen
***** W+2; "the game of a century", Go plays new
      fuseki; diagonal sansan, tengen, hoshi; Meijin
      turned the game around with tesuji 160

1938: Honinbo Shusai (Meijin) x Kitani Minoru
***** B+5; the last game of Shusai, interesting
**    because Jasunari Kawabate wrote a novel
      "Meijin" full of excitement about passing
      away of an old master

1939: Go Seigen x Kitani Minoru
***** W+2; first game from the most famous match of
*     a new era (Kamamura jubango) between authors of
      new fuseki; Kitani started bleeding at move 128

1945: Hashimoto Utaro x Iwamoto Kaoru
***** W+5; the game was played near Hiroshima, when
**    the atom bomb exploded (it was between moves 126
      and 127), the position was destroyed but players
      assembled it again and continued playing

1948: Go Seigen x Iwamoto Kaoru
***** W+1(2); after the game there was an argue whether
      black has to fill in a ko when he has more threats

1951: Go Seigen x Fujisawa Hosai
***   W+R; first match of two 9 dans in history

1957: Go Seigen x Kitani Minoru
****  W+R; encounter of two eternal rivals after 13
      years brought excellent fight, often quoted game

1957a: Takagawa Kaku x Go Seigen
***   B+R; Go Seigen played the big avalanche

1959: Go Seigen x Takagawa Kaku (Honinbo Shukaku)
***** B+0.5; a ko dispute, white had more threats but
      had to connect anyway
