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Atomic bomb game
    Keywords: Culture & History

Game played 4-6 August 1945 as the second game of the third title series for the Honinbo title, held at that time by Hashimoto Utaro. The challenger was Iwamoto Kaoru.

The venue for game 1 (23 to 25 July 1945) was the house of Fujii Junichi, Nakajima, Hiroshima City. But game 2 was moved to the home of Tsuwaki Kan'ichi, Yoshimi-en, Itsuka-ichi, Saeki-ku, Hiroshima City. Go had continued all through the war years in Japan, in reduced form.

The story of the game has been told often. The game recorder was Miwa Yoshiro, the official observer/referee Segoe Kensaku. The second game was played on the outskirts of the city because propaganda leaflets had been dropped, concerning a new powerful bomb (it seems the move was at police insistence). The location was 5 kilometres from the eventual centre of the explosion.

The blast from the atomic bomb detonation above Hiroshima interrupted the game in its third day. It came at 8.15 am and at a point where the players had replayed the position - but had not yet started the game again. There were injuries to some of those there caused by flying glass, and damage to the building. Segoe was blown off his feet. The game wasn't resumed until after lunch.

The game was then played to a conclusion, Hashimoto winning by five points with White (there was no komi). The match was then tied 1-1.


Only when the first groups of badly wounded people were arriving in these outskirts, they realized something very bad had happened. --Dieter



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