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WARNING! If you read Hikaru in English on the Toriyamaworld website, this page contains some spoilers.


Can you identify any of the games / positions in Hikaru No Go?

  • In chapter 2 Hikaru plays Akira at the Go club for the first time. The game shown is also game 8 in the book Appreciating Famous Games, between Shusaku (black) and Honinbo Shuwa, played in 1851.
  • In chapter 8 Hikaru plays Kaga at the school festival. The game shown (up to Hikaru's blunder) is the famous "big fight" between Karigane Junichi (black) and Honinbo Shusai played in 1926. You can view it [ext] here at Jan van der Steen's site.
  • In chapter 23, Kishimoto challenges Touya Akira to decide who will be Kaio's first captain. When Kishimoto resigns, the visible part of the goban looks like this.
  • In chapter 29 Hikaru and Akira play at the Junior High School tournament. The game follows one between Honinbo Shuho (black) and Shusaku played in August 1860 until Hikaru varies at B 39.
  • In chapter 35 Sai plays Akira on the internet. The game shown is Kim Hyonjon (Hyeon-cheong) 1p (black) versus Kobayashi Satoru played in 1998 as part of a 1-dan versus 9-dan series.
  • In chapter 48 and 49 Akira gets his 1p-9p game against the reigning Oza. The opening looks like this. On one of the last pages of the chapter, we see this position in Akira's top right. Chapter 49 contains further details of this position, apparently the highlight of the game. The actual game was played on 24 February 1996 at the Nihon Ki-in, between Kono Nozomi 1p and Morita Michihiro 8p. You can view the [ext] complete game on Go Base.
  • In chapter 56 Hikaru plays Waya in an insei study game. The game shown is Shusaku (black) versus Kadono Chuzaemon played in July 1843. It is the earliest appearance of the Shusaku Fuseki among Shusaku's games.
  • In chapter 59 Isumi beats Mashiba in the Wakajishi Sen. The game shown is Awaji Shuzo (B) versus Kataoka Satoshi in the 25th Prime Minister's Cup Final played 1981-09-21. (Note: found through a pattern search of the Go Games on Disk CD using Kombilo :-)
  • In Anime 28 (this should be near chapter 59) the game shown, played by Hikaru on the Wakajishi Sen is unknown, but if you can find the diagrams on HikaruNoWakajishiSen, if someone recognize this game...
  • In chapter 63 Ogata 9p challanges Kuwabara Honinbo in game 7 of the Honinbo Sen. The game shown is the first game of the 12th (Yomiuri) Meijin Sen between Rin Kaiho (black) and Ishida Yoshio played in August 1973.
  • In chapters 81 - 83 Hikaru and Isumi play in the Insei Tournament. The first 41 moves come from a game between Miyazaki Shimako (black) and Aoki Kikuyo played in round 4 of the 2nd Womens Meijin Sen in February 1990.
  • In chapter 89 Hikaru and Sai are playing a game when Hikaru finds a good play by thinking, "What would Sai play?" The game shown is Shusaku (B) versus Shuwa played 1847-09-11 according to GoGoDCD. The same game appears in John Power's Invincible: The Games of Shusaku in the other games in Part Two but with a date shown of 1847-08-02.
Remember that GoGoD converts lunar dates to Gregorian. JF
  • In chapters 90 and 91 Hikaru and Waya play in the Insei Tournament. This is the subject of problem number 7 on Hikaru No Go Problems. The game is the second game of the 5th (Asahi) Meijin title match between Cho Chikun (black) and Otake Hideo played in 1980. You can download the SGF file from Jan van Rongen's site [ext] here. Brief game discussion here.
  • In chapters 94 and 95 Hikaru plays Ochi in the Insei Tournament. The game shown is one between Ebizawa Kenzo (black) and Shusaku played in October 1859. It is included in John Power's Invincible: The Games of Shusaku in the other games in Part Two.
HolIgor: It seems that there is a mistake somewhere. White won this game by 7 moku. If you add 5.5 komi then it will be a win by 12.5 moku for Shindou-kun. That's heavy. It seemed to me that it was 1.5 moku in manga. Did they subtracted komi from white's result?
This happens in other games as well. They use real games when they show the positions but they don't always follow the actual results. It wouldn't be so exciting for the story if Hikaru won by 12.5, would it? :-) DaveSigaty
  • In chapter 100 and 101 Sai plays Touya Meijin during Hikaru's "1 dan - 9 dan" game. This is how the board looks at an advanced stage. The game is Cho Chikun (black) versus Otake Hideo in the preliminaries of the 44th Oza Sen. The game was played 1996-06-14 (game 1996-06-14a.sgf on the latest GoGoD CD).
  • In chapter 110 Touya Meijin plays an internet game against "LL", the Chinese winner of the World Amateur Go Championship going on in chapters 32-34. The game shown is game 5 of the 1987 Kisei match between Takemiya Masaki (black) and Kobayashi Koichi played Feb 25, 1987.
  • In chapters 112 through 116 Sai plays Touya Meijin on the internet. The game shown is Rin Kaiho (black) vs Yoda Norimoto from the 22nd (Asahi) Meijin League played in May 1997.
  • In chapter 124 Sai asks Hikaru to play a game (the significance of the game is a definite spoiler for anyone that hasn't read volume 15). The first 15 moves appear to be Kobayashi Satoru (black) versus Cho Chikun from the semi final 2 of the 17th NEC Cup played 1997-02-14.
  • In chapter 135 Isumi plays his second game against Ree Pin in China. The game shown is game 2 of the 6th Mingren title match - Ma Xiaochun (black) versus Cao Dayuan played 1993-08-12.
  • In chapter 143 Ogata Judan wins the game five of the Gosei Sen and with it the title as well. The game shown is Takemiya Masaki (black) versus Rin Kaiho from the quarterfinals of the second Kisei sen, played 1977-11-10.

You can obtain quite a bit of information from [ext] here if you understand Chinese. Even if you don't, there're downloadable SGF files which should prove useful. Or if you can understand Japanese (sadly, I don't) refer to [ext] this page which is even more informative.

DaveSigaty: This is part of what looks like a great site about Go for kids (but in Japanese). However, in its Hikaru materials it clearly misidentifies the second game between Hikaru and Akira (chapter 5).

jvt: [ext] This site has detailed discussions, including games and problems (all in Japanese).



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