
This page contains reports and links about all tournaments I had the chance to play in Japan.
The 10th amateur Ryu-O sen (14-28 june 1997)
The First International Shogi Forum (17-21 june 1999)
The Second International Shogi Forum (17-21 october 2002)
Read my trip in Japan.
The First International Shogi Forum has just finished. What a big event this was ! Really amazing, think about all the best in the same place : Sato, Tanigawa, Habu, Nakahara, Yonenaga, Fujii, Moriuchi, Aono, Harada, Ono Yaichio and many others (I don't remember all the names). So many pros at the same time. All were very talkative, it was even difficult to take some time to eat : I talked with really a lot of people in this opening ceremony, meeting old friends. But remember one thing : take your name cards with you. Matt forgot them but he didn't forget to play perfectly ! I did the contrary :-))
My report
Joël Lautier's report
My report
Matt Casters' report
Reijer Grimbergen's report
Jeff Rollason's report
Marco Durante's photographs
All games retyped by Thomas Majewski in html or in psn formats.
The Second International Shogi Forum was a great event. In the same time of the individual and team amateur tournament, you could attend quick games between the best shogi professionnals, play simul games against pros, see a computer shogi tournament, and finally attend a chess simul ! Read everything about those events here !
Jacques Pineau's announcement of Joël Lautier's chess simul
Joël Lautier's reports : 16 october 2002 and
28 october 2002
My report
Joël Lautier's chess simul :
NEC's complete report,
Vladimir Kramik's message,
all games and
ChessBase's report
Martin Danerud's first day and
second day reports
Nihon Shogi Renmei's results of the individual tournament
Jacques Pineau's Asaka Chess Club
German team's photographs
All games in psn format.