Title Match Result - 2nd game, Ryuoh

On November 7 and 8, the second game of 18th Ryuoh title match between Ryuoh Watanabe and Challenger Kimura 7dan. Watanabe made a first move and won the game with 71 moves following to his win in the first game. Now Watanabe leads the score by 2-0. 4 wins in advance will decide the next Ryuoh title holder.

The left diagram shows the position when Kimura resigned seeing Watanabe's last move of S*4c. Here are the possible variation after Challenger's resignation.

P-7g+ N-5c=(mate)
G-5b N-5c+(!!) Gx5c Rx2b+ Bx2b S*4b(mate)
G-4b N-5c+(!!) Gx5c Rx2b+ Gx4c S*5b(mate)
G-4b N-5c+(!!) Gx4c +Nx4c R*8b P*3b Rx3b G*5a Kx5a +Nx3b(White is hopeless)

Kimura had no defence and no effective approach to Watanabe's King. This is why he resigned at the position in the resignation diagram.

The full gamerecord is available to see here(Java capable browser is required to see it). If you can read Japanese, Ryuoh-sen blog will be very amusing.

I hope Kimura will manage to show his strength in the coming 3rd game on November 17 & 18.