Shuho

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Shuho (秀甫 Shūho), born as Murase Yakichi (1838 - 1886) was a Japanese professional. He is also known as Murase Shuho (村瀬 秀甫 Murase Shūho) or Honinbo Shuho (本因坊秀甫 Hon'inbō Shuho).

Shuho was the 18th hereditary head of the Honinbo school. He also was the author of Hoen Shinpo, 1882, Shuho's Opening Theory.

Shuho was originally passed over for being the head of the Honinbo House. He founded the Hoensha (The Square and Circle Society) an important go organization of the late 1800s. By the time Shuho reconciled with the Honinbo house and was made Honinbo he had come to completely dominate his contemporaries forcing them to the handicap of the black stones.

Honinbo Shuho was actually head of the Honinbo house for less than 3 months before his death.

He had a very strong attacking style and his games often ended with the death of a group of stones.

His pupils were Ishii Senji, Mizutani Nuiji, Miyoshi Kitoku, Sannohe Tomiaki and Oskar Korschelt; Korschelt was a German and one of the first Westerners to learn much about the game of Go.


tderz: I cannot find Shuho under any of his synonyms in the GoPlayersAlmanac of 2001. What is wrong? (the book or my approach?)

Bob McGuigan: I haven't checked the 2001 edition but in the 1992 edition there is a whole two-column page about him as part of John Power's essay "A Brief History of Modern Go" towards the front of the book.

tderz Bob, the 2001 edition covers that as well, I have the 1992 ed. too, but not at hand. Shuho is also covered under the entry Shusai (p. 237-238), but I cannot retrieve Shuho's own entry.

Bob: I couldn't find it either, at first, but in the 1992 edition Shuho has an entry between Shuei and Shusai in the Who's Who in the Go World section. Is that what you are looking for?

tderz Thank you, Bob, that was my point. Alphabetically I expected Shuho to be between Shuei and Shusai on p. 237, but to no avail. Then I checked for Murase, Honinbo etc. and could not find him either in the 2001 ed. (did not yet have a look at the 1992 ed. which I donated to the club).
As you said there is one column on him on page 82 (John Power: "Go Players in the Edo Era").
I was looking for information on him, because I encountered his name and were simply confused who-of-the Shu-whos he was.

I think I found out now, that the GoPlayersAlmanac is slightly inconsistent with its definition for entries on p.202 (w.r.t. chapters 10 & 11): Shuei is in , Shuho is not.


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