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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 Anime 2, Hikaru goes to Go Class for the first time. Taking a break, he sees a game from a Tengen match on the TV. Black is Toya Meijin. It is the situation after move 16 in Shusaku vs Sekiyama Sendaiu (Black), 1851-07-01. This scene is not in the Manga.
  • In Chapter 5 the second game between Sai and Toya Akira is played. Not yet identified. There are many flashbacks to this game in later chapters in the manga and in the anime.
  • 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 Kimu Hyonjon 1p (Black) versus Kobayashi Satoru played in 1998 as part of a 1-dan versus 9-dan series.
  • In chapter 42 Hikaru plays Kaga, Tsutsui, and Mitani simultaneously. The game with Kaga is really Yuki Satoshi (Black) versus Cho Hun-hyeon played 1997-04-12 in the 10th Fujitsu Cup.
  • 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 Rin 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 position is derived from a game between Shusaku (black) versus Kadono Chuzaemon played in July 1843. It is the earliest appearance of the Shusaku Fuseki among Shusaku's games. The upper left corner is not the same as in the original game, but the rest is.
  • 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 75 and 76: Shindo-HonSuyon Game. This exciting game is between Yun Yeong-seon(W) and Yi Cheong-weon(B), both Korean female professionals 1d, played 1995-02-03.
  • In chapter 77 is Hikaru's first game in the pro examinations, against Iijima. There is only one picture, but with a clear view of the position in the game. One white stone should have been black, but otherwise the position is from Kawamoto Noboru versus Miwa Yoshiro, both 8 dan, Oteai, 1989-06-29. The same game can be seen in the Anime.
  • Another game in the Anime is the fourth or fifth game in the pro examinations. Hikaru plays a girl, the position shown is the end of Hane Yasumasa - Takemiya Masaki, 1989-09-07 in the 15th Tengen. Not in the Manga.
  • In chapter 78 is Hikaru's eighth game in the pro examinations. The position is from Shusaku versus Ota Yuzo, 1848-01-02,26.
  • 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. Later positions in the Hikaru-Isumi game still follow this game, but the centre of the board (where Isumi makes his mistake) is altered and simplified.
  • In chapter 83 round 13 of the pro examinations, the game between Isumi and Waya is Honinbo Shuwa versus Murase Yakichi, 1856-11-03.
  • In Anime 42 Waya (as Zelda) plays on Internet against Tamotu, just shortly before he sees a fake Sai playing. This game is Yasui Chitoku - Okunuki Chisaku, 1803-05-27. Not in the Manga.
  • 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. Go World 22 has a special commentary on this game, revealing the last opportunities for white to win the game.
  • 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 Anime 45 there is a quick look at Isumi's game during the lunch break in the same round as the game above. The situation on the board is from Sonoda Yasutaku versus Tei Meiko, Oteai, 1993-08-19. Not in the Manga.
  • 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 109 Toya Meijin wins the 4th game in the Judan match against Ogata. The real game is by Rin Kaiho (white, W+6.5) and Liu Xiaoguang, 3rd Tengen/Tianyuan match, game 3, 1996-06-26.
  • 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 120 Hikaru plays one colour Go against Kurata -- so now you know why it is more difficult to find the right game. It is a game between Kobayashi Satoru (w) versus Su Kaiseki, 1984-10-22, Oteai. The situation where Hikaru resigns is not the end of the real game, that one goes on a bit longer.
  • In chapter 122 we see Hikaru's first pro game (playing black) against .... (cannot find the name). It's Wu Songsheng-Yu Ch'ang-hyeok (black, B+R), 1993-07-15, 2nd Paedal Wang Tournament. Yes, Wu is Chinese, but he played in South Korea in those days.
  • In chapter 124 Hikaru/Sai plays a game against Ogata. There is only one snapshot of the game (in the end). This is not yet a known game. There's a demo game shown later in this chapter, that is Takemiya Masaki - Cho Chikun, 17th NEC Cup round 2, 1997-12-13.
  • 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.
  • In chapter 160 Hikaru is playing Morishita sensei in the second stage of the Honinbo Tournament while Akira is playing Ogata sensei in the Honinbo league. Meanwhile Touya Koyo is playing the young Korean star Ko Yonha in a casual game in Korea (quite a busy chapter :-) Hikaru's game is actually Cho Chikun (black) versus Yi Ch'ang-ho from the 4th Tong Yang Securities Cup played 1993-04-22. Toyo Koyo's game is Zhang Wendong (black) versus Cho Chikun from the 7th Fujitsu Cup played 1994-06-03. Akira's game is as yet unidentified.
  • In chapter 163 Hikaru plays Shibata 3-dan from the Chubu (Nagoya) branch in the qualifying tournament for the Hokuto Tournament. The game shown is Yamashita Keigo (black) versus Nakano Yasuhiro played 1998-07-08 in the Shinjin-O tournament.
  • I can't resist. In chapter 164 Hikaru and the new shodan star from the Kansai Kiin, Yashiro, play the first two moves of their game in the second round of the Hokuto Tournament. I will go out on a limb and predict that the game will follow Takao Shinji (black) versus Yamashita Keigo broadcast 2000-03-19 in the final of the Shinei Tournament. The opening moves are already shown here so you can see why I am confident. :-) DaveSigaty

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).

Jan van Rongen: I have created a page with all the games above on [ext] my site. Many people requested a copy of the game of chapter 75-76. So now it is there. In fact, since I started Hikaru no Go game hunting I found ten new games. They are all in the list above and on my site. That's it for now, I will be on holiday till the end of September.



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