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Book I-08a: 1 ~ 54 (Sgf version: Black 6 is good. Both Black 24 and 26 are a solid way of playing - a good plan. Black 38 is a good way to solidify the lower side. Black 54 is a good point to achieve balance in this area. Notes Korschelt link: none. Shuho's collected games (476 on the GoGoD CD) include very few examples at four stones. There is only one where he is Black, against Shuwa. But the first example of him as White is especially interesting as it is a postal game. Sannohe Yoshiaki was a pupil of Shuho, but judging by his name he would have normally been resident in Aomori, in the far north of Japan (the Sannohes were part of the Nanbu clan there). Presumably, the new-fangled post, or the version imported from the west along with new-fangled iron horses from Great Britain, added a spicy novelty to the exercise. Sannohe also played by post with Kobayashi Tetsujiro. It is believed that Shuho also featured in the first postal game in Japan, in 1883, also against Sannohe on three stones, but that record does not survive. The four-stone game is the oldest extant, from 1884 (it was unfinished after 117 moves). Furuya Okisaburo, who was living in the village of Aimura, Higashi Chikuma-gun, in the mountains of Shinano Province also submitted a request to play two three-stones games by post with Shuho, starting in April 1885. They played continuously until autumn 1886 when the games were suspended because of Shuho's serious illness. Shuho died soon after. The game with Sannohe adds little to four-stone fuseki theory. It started as below but from there became a violent fight on the left edge. Sannohe did rather well and leaving it unfinished was probably out of diplomacy.
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