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Yoshiharu Habu
Number of games in database: 29
Years covered: 2001 to 2007
Current FIDE rating: 2404
Overall record: +12 -6 =9 (61.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      2 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (9) 
    B42 B47 B66 B86 B65
With the Black pieces:
 Semi-Slav (4) 
    D47 D44 D45
 Sicilian (4) 
    B50 B51 B90
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   P Wells vs Y Habu, 2005 0-1

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 page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 29  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Y Habu vs E Bogdanov 1-018 2001 Saint-Quentin opB47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation
2. Y Habu vs Delchev 0-147 2001 Saint-Quentin opB47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation
3. Y Habu vs Lautier  0-166 2002 SimulB33 Sicilian
4. Y Habu vs Paschall  ½-½29 2003 World Open: Open SectionB01 Scandinavian
5. Y Habu vs O Nelson  1-039 2003 World Open: Open SectionB28 Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation
6. Y Habu vs Sadvakasov  0-134 2003 World Open: Open SectionB86 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack
7. J Benjamin vs Y Habu  ½-½64 2003 World Open: Open SectionB50 Sicilian
8. T Beckman vs Y Habu  0-126 2003 World Open: Open SectionE60 King's Indian Defense
9. M Prusikin vs Y Habu  ½-½22 2005 Zurich WeihnachtsopenD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
10. Y Pelletier vs Y Habu 1-051 2005 Zurich WeihnachtsopenD44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
11. P Wells vs Y Habu 0-128 2005 Essent OpenD47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
12. P Doostkam vs Y Habu  ½-½61 2006 8th Dubai OpenA28 English
13. Da Harris vs Y Habu  0-154 2006 34th World OpenB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
14. Hossein Aryanejad vs Y Habu  ½-½36 2006 8th Dubai OpenB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
15. G Garcia vs Y Habu 0-140 2006 World OpenA04 Reti Opening
16. Y Habu vs Majeed Mohamad Abdul  ½-½28 2006 8th Dubai OpenC02 French, Advance
17. Y Habu vs B Finegold  ½-½19 2006 34th World OpenB66 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6
18. Y Habu vs Miroshnichenko  0-161 2006 8th Dubai OpenB65 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...Be7 Defense, 9...Nxd4
19. Y Habu vs C Cadman  1-034 2006 World OpenB42 Sicilian, Kan
20. E Maghami vs Y Habu  1-039 2006 8th Dubai OpenB50 Sicilian
21. Y Habu vs L B Hansen 0-169 2006 34th World OpenB19 Caro-Kann, Classical
22. R Babaev vs Y Habu  ½-½59 2006 8th Dubai OpenC07 French, Tarrasch
23. M Hansen vs Y Habu 0-137 2006 World OpenC02 French, Advance
24. Y Habu vs C Vaidya  1-044 2006 8th Dubai OpenC18 French, Winawer
25. I Zenyuk vs Y Habu  0-149 2006 34th World OpenD47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
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Feb-13-04   S4NKT: well you can't take the king in the program, you can only checkmate, which is basically the same thing, do people take eachothers kings in shogi? why doesn't the opposing player just give up when his king will be taken on the next move?

The rules in all the chess blitz tournaments that I participate in are that you don't say check and if the opponent doesn't see check then you can take his king and win, I don't know whether this is an international blitz rule I not, I do find it slightly annoying however, sometimes I lose games because I miss a check..

Feb-13-04   ughaibu: In professional play it's a loss to leave the king in "check", at amateur level it gets taken. Naturally a player will resign if they're "checkmated".
Feb-13-04   S4NKT: I don't think it's a loss, it's an illegal move, and the opposing players gets time added to their clock (this is at least what happens in my club, which I guess is professional since there's a few 2500 players).
Feb-13-04   ughaibu: In shogi an illegal move loses, quite different from chess where an illegal move is impossible.
Feb-13-04
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  nasmichael: I did not know that.

Important to know--

Mar-14-04   ughaibu: Habu was among the winners in the recent 16th "Japan best dressed eyes". There's a nice photo in the January issue of Shougi Sekai with Habu on stage with the six co-winners, including a pro-wrestler and an actress.
Sep-30-04   tacticsjokerxxx: I saw an entertaining game between Yoshiharu and Taimanov, Yoshi lets Taimanov capture a hanging knight just to manouvere his other knight to f6 and deliver check, however this achieves nothing, the game ended in a draw, however during two points in the game Taimanov had mate in 6!, too bad it's not here. Anyway Yoshi's a cool player.
Oct-30-05   sitzkrieg: S4NKT; Do u maybe know if ur shogi prog is for sale in stores and what name it has? I am looking for a shogi program quite some time but havent found one.

It is a pitty the game Wells-Habu is not included here. It has been played very recently; Habu wins with a lot of fireworks;

(P=N, L=B, D=Q)

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Pf3 Pf6 4.Pc3 e6 5.e3 Pbd7 6.Ld3 dxc4 7.Lxc4 b5 8.Le2 b4 9.Pa4 Ld6 10.e4 Pxe4 11.Dc2 f5 12.Pg5 Pxg5 13.Dxc6 Pe4 14.Dxa8 O-O 15.Dc6 Pdf6 16.f3 Ld7 17.Da6 Lxa4 18.Dxa4 Lxh2 19.Txh2 Dxd4 20.fxe4 Pxe4 21.Th1 Df2+ 22.Kd1 Td8+ 23.Kc2 Dxe2+ 24.Kb1 Pc3+ 25.bxc3 bxc3 26.La3 Tb8+ 27.Db3 Dd3+ 28.Kc1 Dd2+

Dec-30-05   IT4LICO: Here is good analises (in italian) of Well-Habu game, GM I.Roger called it "game of the year"!

http://www.messaggerie.it/partite/g...

Mar-12-06   Mameluk: I was currently trying to read some older german Schach in a club, and there were probably the same annotations as those italian here, very nice. 18... Bxh2!! called the right shogi move:)
Mar-12-06   EmperorAtahualpa: Habu is Japan's second highest rated chess player, behind Akira Watanabe.
Apr-15-06   Zebra: <Sitzkrieg>: <It is a pity the game Wells-Habu is not included here.>

I have submitted it. Hopefully it will soon be on line.

Apr-30-06   Atking: EmperorAtahualpa. It seems that in this site Mr Habu is already the highest with 2382.
Jul-05-06   Confuse: wow i came to see if this guy had any games on this website and wow, for a professional shogi player he sure plays a lot of chess!
Jan-16-07   GamerMan: Actually FIDE ranks Habu above Watanabe by 41 Elo points, though that can change very quickly with such a small difference . And there is checkmate in shogi, it is only in larger versions such as Chu Shogi that checkmate is removed (in fact, they have a special rule about checkmate [can't be done with a pawn drop]).

Habu is pretty good for only playing twice a month (maximum twice a week)

May-14-07   slomarko: Habu beat P.Nikolic in a rapid tourney in Belgium
http://users.skynet.be/fa054591/TOU...
Sep-26-08   Ichiro: http://blog.m3.com/chessdocter/2007... Here is the game:Nikolic-Habu. I think it should be included,too.
Sep-26-08   Ichiro: http://monsieur.ddo.jp/chess/Bruxel...
You can find games here,too.
Sep-27-08   Atking: For the chess players who are interested by shogi. The first game of the RyuO will be played between Watanabe (Title older) and Habu (Meijin) the 18th and 19th october at the Hotel Meridien Etoile in Paris.
Sep-27-08   slomarko: meanwhile Habu just lost the deciding 7th game of the Oi match against Fukaura.
Sep-27-08   Atking: Yes obviously Mr Habu had and still has a very hard schedule and wasn't able to win this game. He is playing many matchs against differents opponents in the same time!? In shogi world that's possible. A game is played in one or two days but between 2 games players have few days before they meet again. In case of Mr Habu, the days between he is playing another match! He is almost the only one who could challenge in the year 5~6 titles on the 7 possibles. If he wins the title which will start in Paris in october. Mr Habu will hold 5 titles. That means that all the others professionnels will have only the remaining 2 titles... Enough clear about Mr Habu shogi domination. Nearly 72% of wins
Sep-27-08   Ichiro: Happy birthday,Mr. Habu!
http://www.habu-muso.com/
http://www.rayraw.com/
Sep-27-08   slomarko: <He is playing many matchs against differents opponents in the same time!?> he can play maximum 2 title matches at the time. given that he holds most titles he doesn't have to play the qualifying leagues.
May-12-09   MMan: Haven't heard much about Mr. Habu recently. Is he still playing chess or now sticking to shogi?
Sep-25-09   Atking: Habu won yesterday and kept 4 titles on 7. When one imagine that got the final step of 2 others the year of 5 crowns may be soon realised. <slomarko> I didn't see your answer. Yes he can play only 2 major titles in the same time. But there is some minor one as NHK tournament (He won it this year). The problem is Habu goes throught all the process of the selection and lost mostly at the end when some strong players lost before. Adding he is sollicited for books conferences more than the others to say 10 top players put together. That's great. <MMan> I hear he is still training. Maybe his professionnal schedule doesn't offer to go to a foreigner country to play chess.
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