domenica 30 aprile 2017

Ancora casshern ! - casshern vs OdinHimself. Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11

Move 8

casshern / OdinHimself. Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11, 27 moves, 2017-04-20

Move 14

Move 18

Move 26

Match Ded Fomich / Agmundr. Historical Hnefatafl 9x9 (Saami Tablut)

Ded Fomich / Agmundr. Historical Hnefatafl 9x9 (Saami Tablut), 13 moves, 2017-04-28

Agmundr / Ded Fomich. Historical Hnefatafl 9x9 (Saami Tablut), 12 moves, 2017-04-28

GM Tari vs GM Mamedov chess blitz Aeroflot open BLITZ

Hikaru Nakamura Vs Vladimir Kramnik - Opening Blitz Zurich Chess Challenge 2017

sabato 29 aprile 2017

herjan vs Plantagenet. Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11

herjan / Plantagenet. Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11, 34 moves, 2017-04-06

a minimis quoque timendum:

si dovrebbe temere anche la più piccola delle creature

venerdì 28 aprile 2017

Lezioni di Shogi 5 - 船江恒平の必死の形

giovedì 27 aprile 2017

Bizzarrie Scacchistiche di Marco Gandolfo

Marco Gandolfo

Milano, 2016

Matto in 11

Alium silere quod voles, primus sile - Ciò che vuoi che un altro taccia, tacilo tu per primo (Seneca, Fedra, 876).

mercoledì 26 aprile 2017

Thanir vs Plantagenet. Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11

Thanir / Plantagenet. 40 moves. Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11 2017-04-25

Move 50

giovedì 20 aprile 2017

Shogi - 将棋名人戦第２局始まる

佐藤天彦（あまひこ）名人（２９）に稲葉陽（あきら）八段（２８）が挑戦する第７５期将棋名人戦七番勝負（朝日新聞社、毎日新聞社主催、大和証券グループ協賛）の第２局が２０日、青森県弘前市の藤田記念庭園で始まった。

http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASK4N2H...

※朝日新聞社の動画の改ざんや、許可なく商用・営利目的で利用することを禁じます。

martedì 18 aprile 2017

Match Ded Fomich vs Agmundr. Historical Hnefatafl 9x9 (Saami Tablut)

Ded Fomich / Agmundr. Historical Hnefatafl 9x9 (Saami Tablut), 18 moves, 2017-04-12

Agmundr / Ded Fomich. Historical Hnefatafl 9x9 (Saami Tablut), 19 moves, 2017-04-12

lunedì 17 aprile 2017

Hon'inbō Sansa (本因坊算砂, 1559 – June 13, 1623)

Hon'inbō Sansa (本因坊算砂, 1559 – June 13, 1623) was the assumed name of Kanō Yosaburō (加納與三郎), one of the strongest Japanese Go players of the Edo period (1603–1867), and founder of the house of Hon'inbō, first among the four great schools of Go in Japan. He was a Buddhist priest of the Nichiren sect, and his original dharma name was Nikkai (日海).

Life and career

Nikkai was born in Kyōto and became a monk at age nine. The name "Hon'inbō", (originally pronounced "Honninbō"), comes from a sub-temple of the Jakkōji temple complex in Kyōto where Nikkai, the first "Hon'inbō", resided.

Among his students were the daimyōs Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, the three great "unifiers" of feudal Japan. Nikkai considered the three generals to be "fifth-degree" players (五子, comparable to amateur 4 or 5 dan), but "diplomacy" was likely a factor in Nikkai's even-handed assessment of these imposing figures.

It was the Shogun Nobunaga who, in 1578, recognized twenty-year-old Nikkai as the first Meijin of Go. In 1582, Nikkai, at the behest of Nobunaga, was involved in a notorious game at the Honnōji Temple against his rival, another Nichiren priest, Kashio Rigen (鹿塩利玄 b. 1565). (Apparently, there is a theory that "Kashio" and "Rigen" were two different people. See the Japanese version of this article.) The game is traditionally held to have taken place on the eve of the treacherous Incident at Honnōji, (in which Nobunaga was forced to commit seppuku), and is said to have ended in a "triple ko". Hence the notion of triple ko as bad omen. There is a game record, but typical for the period, it is incomplete. The triple ko may have occurred, somewhat implausibly, in unrecorded remaining plays, or in another game that day, but in the end, there is no evidence that this is more than a good story.

In 1587, Nobunaga's successor, the regent (kampaku) Hideyoshi gave Nikkai an official position, (forerunner to the office of Go-dokoro), granting his temple an annual four koku of rice and setting up a tournament that he attended in person. In 1592, Nikkai was given the rank of Gon-no-Daisoku by the Go-Yōzei Emperor.

In 1603, the Go-Yozei Emperor recognized sixty-year-old Tokugawa Ieyasu as Shogun, inaugurating the 250-year rule of the Tokugawa bakufu. At the direction of Ieyasu, Nikkai turned priestly duties at Jakkoji over to his younger brother Nichiei and became the first go-dokoro, in which office Nikkai was provided fifty koku of rice and five servants. Also around this time (1605?), Nikkai took the name Hon'inbō Sansa (Sansa written 算砂: the characters for "calculating" and "sand").

Sansa was also a strong shogi player, but in the Tokugawa era, go was organised into four "houses" (or "academies"), and shogi into three, which would compete in oshirogo "Castle Go" (and "Castle shogi") tournaments for the title Meijin. (See more at History of shogi § Modern shogi.) The official nature of these arrangements meant that go and shogi masters held different offices. In 1612, eight go and shogi players were given individual state support. This system persisted over two and a half centuries, until the collapse of the Tokugawa government itself in the Meiji Restoration.

The beginning of the oshirogo matches in Edo, seat of the Tokugawa government, meant that at the end of each year, Sansa had to travel east for a month. He is said to have turned down an official residence in Edo's early Nihonbashi district, but was given other accommodations. (It was the unrivaled fourth Hon'inbō, Hon'inbō Dōsaku (1645–1702) who finally moved the school to Edo.) Sansa died in Edo at the age of 65.
Legacy

Honinbō Sansa was succeeded by a youth named Sugimura, who due to his age, had to wait several years after Sansa's death to re-establish the Hon'inbō house as Hon'inbō San'etsu when he turned twenty. However, the title of Meijin was regained by the third head of Hon'inbō, and altogether, seven of the ten generations of historic Meijin were Hon'inbō. In addition, all three traditional Kisei ("Go Sages") were Hon'inbō masters. (Both Meijin and Kisei are now titles administered by the Nihon Ki-in.)

The school established by Hon'inbō Sansa, along with the Inoue and Yasui schools, lasted into the 20th century, but struggled without government backing. In 1936, the last Hon'inbō master, the controversial Hon'inbō Shūsai, turned selection of the Hon'inbō title over to the Nihon Ki-in. (See Honinbō Tournament.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hon%27inb%C5%8D_Sansa

Famous Shogi Games: OHASHI vs HON-INBOU (Jun., 1607)

The oldest game record (Kifu) we can see today, which is played between the 1st Meijin, Soukei Ohashi, and a Igo master, Sansa Hon-inbou. The endgame is really exciting.

domenica 16 aprile 2017

Giocare per vincere? - di Marco Gandolfo

In Occidente, da molto tempo ( 1 ) si è ormai radicata l'idea che il fine ultimo di un incontro riguardante un qualsiai gioco strategico
sia il conseguimento della vittoria ( 2 ).
In Oriente l'approccio alle arti marziali e di conseguenza verso i giochi strategici è ancor oggi alquanto diverso: ( 3 )

"...le competizioni ci aiutano a svelare le nostre debolezze e conoscere il vero nemico...quello che è dentro di noi..." ( dal film Fearless 2006 )

Gli incontri secondo la prospettiva Orientale ( 4 ) non sono affatto scontri ma opportunità per conoscere sè stessi, approfondire l'arte, armonizzarsi con l'essere umano seduto di fronte a noi, quello che a torto chiamiamo avversario, ma che forse in realtà non rappresenta altro che il nostro complemento. ( 5 )

Una visione simile può comportare il vedere nell'atto ludico la realizzazione di un'opera d'arte sviluppata da due elementi complementari e non antagonisti. Il rispetto per il gioco che in fondo è un simbolo, per "l'avversario" e per noi stessi, dovrebbe essere un dovere vissuto con partecipazione, sincerità e gioia, non mero formalismo.
Ricordiamo in chiusura la seguente illuminante citazione di un maestro di arti marziali che recita: "Uno spirito aggressivo che crede nell'esistenza di un nemico non è in armonia con lo spirito dell'universo..." ( 6 )

Note

1 - E' lecito ritenere che nel nostro Medioevo l'approccio fosse alquanto diverso a quello moderno e che l'intenzione con cui i cavalieri si accostavano agli Scacchi fosse molto simile all'approccio all'Igo da parte dei samurai.

2 - La vittoria è il sovrappiù, che viene donata a chi si dispone correttamente cercando di fare unità in sé stesso e nelle proprie forze in campo che non rappresentano altro che le proprie facoltà interiori.

3 - Una prospettiva che malauguratamente si sta facendo anche in quelle terre sempre più rara.

4 - La prospettiva o un diverso punto di vista comporta delle curiose implicazioni. Può avvenire ad esempio che due persone intente a giocare a Scacchi considerando tale gioco da due punti di vista diversi, solo apparentemente possano dirsi dedicarsi alla medesima attività, se non nel senso letterale del termine.

5 - Nel primo caso il punto di vista comporta dualità nel secondo si intravede una tendenza verso l'armonizzazione.

3 - Si cerchino, utilizzando il motore di ricerca interno le citazioni intitolate Citation de maitres d’arts martiaux in questo blog

L'ascesa di Casshern :casshern Vs Plantagenet. Historical Hnefatafl 11x11 (Welsh Tawlbwrdd) 2

Move 15

Move 24

Move 31

Resign

sabato 15 aprile 2017

Go, rapporti geometrici : magari 14 kyu vs Tamarisco 6 kyu

			Move 120

casshern Vs Plantagenet. Historical Hnefatafl 11x11 (Welsh Tawlbwrdd)

casshern / Plantagenet. Historical Hnefatafl 11x11 (Welsh Tawlbwrdd), 8 moves, 2017-04-12

The History of Go in Russia, 2003

Published under the permission of the author – Alexey Lazarev. About the author: Alexey Lazarev is 11-time Russian champion, 2-time European champion.

Alexey Lazarev

Perhaps, the first literary mentioning about Go in Russia appeared in the beginning of the XX-th century (1902 – Encyclopaedia edited by F. Brockhaus and I. Efron). Go was named “oblavnie shashki” (battue draughts) then. In 1914 an unknown author published a brochure with the game rules description. From that time and until the early sixties nobody noticed any significant mentions about Go activity in Russia.

In 1962 Postnikov M.M. – a Russian Academician and some others mathematicians from Moscow published an article about Go in the journal “Yuniy technik” (“Young technician” in English). This journal was extremely popular among senior schoolchildren. However we can state that the real birth of Go in Russia happened in 1965. At that very time a Go enthusiast Youriy Filatov created the first Go club in Leningrad (the old name of Saint-Petersburg). The Go club was under patronage of the Central Leningrad Chess Club. There were quite favorable conditions for Go promotion then. A year later the number of Go circles and Go clubs in Leningrad increased immensely. Many big Go tournaments were organized. Few hundreds of participants took part in some of them. The results of Go activities were so great that it made impossible for local authorities to ignore it. In 1968 Leningrad Sport Committee even planned to support some of Go events.

venerdì 14 aprile 2017

casshern vs Plantagenet. Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11

Move 32

Move 50

Move 65

1 - 0

Un Re alle strette : mmagari (2000) / Tamarisco (1401) Historical Hnefatafl 7x7 (Irish Brandubh)

25 moves

26 moves

giovedì 13 aprile 2017

herjan / Plantagenet. Copenhagen Hnefatafl 11x11 - 5

Move 17

Valentina Gunina Vs Ju Wenjun - Baku World Chess Olympiad 2016 Round 11

Valentina Gunina Vs Ju Wenjun - Baku World Chess Olympiad 2016 Round 11 - 13.9.2016.
World Chess Olympiad 2016 Baku
Russia 2760 United States of America 2740 China 2735 Azerbaijan 2705 Ukraine 2688 France 2678 Poland 2677 England 2672 Hungary 2656 Netherlands 2654 India 2651 Germany 2644 Spain 2628 Cuba 2622 Israel 2622 Croatia 2619 Norway 2613 Czech Republic 2604 Belarus 2602 Turkey 2599 Georgia 2590 Greece 2589 Argentina 2583 Azerbaijan-2 2576 Serbia 2574 Romania 2574 Slovenia 2574 Bulgaria 2572 Latvia 2568 Canada 2560 Brazil 2554 Uzbekistan 2548 Kazakhstan 2547 Sweden 2545 Vietnam 2545 Italy 2544 Moldova 2543 Denmark 2535 Peru 2532 Egypt 2524 Bosnia & Herzegovina 2523 Austria 2522 Paraguay 2511 Iceland 2510 Iran 2509 Australia 2505 Switzerland 2504 Chile 2500 Slovakia 2495 Montenegro 2488 Colombia 2475 Philippines 2464...

Open event
Main article: Open event at the 42nd Chess Olympiad
The open section of the tournament is being contested by a record number of 180 teams representing 175 nations.[26] Azerbaijan, as host nation, field three teams, whilst the International Braille Chess Association (IBCA), the International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA), and the International Chess Committee of the Deaf (ICCD) each provide one team.

The tournament features eight out of the top ten players from the FIDE rating list published in August 2016; only former World Champion Vishwanathan Anand and Levon Aronian are missing the Olympiad. Among the players who are playing in the open section are the World Champion and highest rated player in the world Magnus Carlsen, the challenger in the World Chess Championship 2016 Sergey Karjakin as well as the former World Champions Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov. Grandmaster Eugenio Torre is in the line-up of the Philippines for the record twenty-third time, having played on each Chess Olympiad since 1970 except in Dresden in 2008.[31] On the other hand, Ukraine are weaker for Vassily Ivanchuk, who does not play for the first time after 14 consecutive Olympiads (1988-2014) and 13 appearances on board one (1990-2014). The former World Champion Challenger and leader of the Israeli team in 8 consecutive Olympiads (2000-2014) Boris Gelfand is also missing the Olympiad following a conflict with the Israeil Chess Federation management.[32][33]

The strongest team of the tournament are Russia with an average rating of 2760. Captained by the president of the Russian Chess Federation and FIDE Vice President Andrey Filatov, the team are led by Vladimir Kramnik on board one, the World Champion Challenger Sergey Karjakin on board two, Alexander Grischuk, Evgeny Tomashevsky and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Seven-time Russian Champion and the forth highest ranked Russian player Peter Svidler was not included in the team. United States are the second strongest team with three top ten players, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura and Wesley So, along with Ray Robson and Samuel Shankland. So and Shankland have recently proved that they are in good form after winning the Sinquefield Cup 2016 and the Biel Chess Festival 2016, respectively. The defending champions China are the third team with highest average rating and the only team besides Russia whose all players have rating higher than 2700. They participate with the same line-up that won the gold medal except for Ni Hua who is replaced by Li Chao. The first team of the three that represent the host country Azerbaijan is the forth strongest and completes the group with an average rating exceeding 2700 points. The only change in their line-up from the previous Chess Olympiad is Arkadij Naiditsch, a board one player for Germany in four Olympiads, who is playing instead of Gadir Guseinov.[34]

World Champion and world no. 1 Magnus Carlsen is playing on board one for Norway

World no. 2 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is playing on board one for France

Former World Champion and world no. 3 Vladimir Kramnik is playing on board one for Russia

World no. 4 Fabiano Caruana is playing on board two for the United States

World no. 6 Hikaru Nakamura is playing on board one for the United States