Shogi Tanigawa Kudan Fujii Kisei Analyzes the strength of Sei "No weak points found" July 17, 18:42
Regarding the strength of Satoshi Fujii Gosei who won the Shogi title at the youngest, one of the "junior high school student go players", Koji Tanikawa pointed out that "the power of the middle stage has grown and there are almost no weak points".
Koji Tanikawa entered the professional field in 1976 at the age of 14 in the second year of middle school, the same as Shogi Fujii, and won the 27th term title so far, and established a era with Yoshiharu Hanyu 9dan.
Kudan Tanikawa said that "Akira Watanabe, who is the other player, is the "strongest player" in the world of shogi today. I think it was wonderful through all four stations."
In addition, looking back at the time when he achieved his first title as "the youngest master in history" in 1983, he said, "At that time, if I saw a win at the final station Sometimes it would be distorted by my eyes. When it is a title with one more win, it is usually the case, but Mr. Fujii does not have such a place at all, and the last way to win is the shortest distance. I didn't think that I would win the title, maybe I was concentrating only on the board."
And, as the strength of Kisei Fujii who saw in the fifth game this time, he said "growth of midfield power", "immediately after entering the professional stage, the accuracy and sharpness of the final stage cultivated with shogi shogi were particularly outstanding It was said that it was not so far in other fields," he said, "especially in the last few months, the power of the middle stage has grown, and the essence of the We have been able to quickly identify the critical points and find the best possible solution. Now, the level of the early and middle stages has risen, and there are almost no weak points found."
“He has already experienced in his teens what other top shogi players would have had in their twenties, such as playing in a large number of media outlets. In that sense, he is still a shogi player. It's been less than four years, but I think he's a very experienced player," he said with a smile.
In the future, he hopes that rivalry that will enhance each other for Fujii Kisei will appear, ``By playing with Hanyu-san over 160 stations, I became familiar with each other, and finally the two I was able to play with the feeling that I would like to make a good work in. If there are a lot of players who can build relationships that will transcend such competition, the level of the whole shogi world will rise. , I want the top players who appear in the title match to work hard and compete with Mr. Fujii at a high level."