One of the eight major titles of shogi, "Oshogi", will be settled by the 4th station on the 12th.
It will be interesting to see if the challenger Souta Fujii's four crowns (19) will beat Akira Watanabe's three crowns (37) to achieve the youngest teenage "five crowns" in history.
In the 7th match of the Osho War, the challenger Fujii 4 crowns have won the title holder Watanabe triple crown 3 times in a row, and the 4th station has started in Tachikawa city, Tokyo from the 11th.
When the four crowns of Fujii win this game and win the title of "Ohsho", Yoshiharu Habu (51)'s youngest record, "22 years and 10 months", will be updated for the first time in 28 years and 5 months. "Five crowns" will be achieved in "months".
On the other hand, Watanabe Triple Crown, who holds "Master" and "Kiou" in addition to "Osho", boasts the 4th place in the total number of titles won, and has won the "Osho War" for 4 consecutive years.
At the beginning of the game on the 11th of the first day, they pointed to each other at a good tempo, and it was a speedy development of over 60 moves by the lunch break, but after that, the scene where both players took out one move from the long thought was conspicuous.
The game will resume from the "adjournment" of Fujii's four crowns around 9 am on the 12th, and the victory or defeat is expected to be decided in the afternoon.
It will be interesting to see if Fujii's four crowns will win four consecutive wins and achieve the first ever "five crowns" in their teens, or if Watanabe's triple crown will return one win for the fourth straight victory.