Winning Shusaku Number
This is the Shusaku Number applied to victories only.
Example
Debarre Thomas: I calculated my (winning) Shusaku number through won, even and official games, only. It was a quite difficult research, but I found the most resourceful player who beat Shusaku was Murase Shuho (source : GoBase). I calculated mine, which is astonishingly low (9) compareed to my normal Shusaku number of 6.
0 Shusaku Honinbo
1 Murase Shuho(JP, B) vs. Shusaku Honinbo(JP, W) 1861-12-08 ; Black won by resignation
2 Honinbo Shuei (JP, B) vs. Murase Shuho (JP, W) 1885-03-05 ; Black won by 3 points
3 Honinbo Shusai (JP, B) vs. Honinbo Shuei (JP, W) 1903-08-16 ; Black won by resignation
4 Kitani Minoru (JP, B) vs. Honinbo Shusai (JP, W) 1938-06-26 ; Black won by 5 points
5 Otake Hideo (JP, B) vs. Kitani Minoru (JP, W) 1960-10 ; Black won by 16 points
6 Rui Naiwei (CHN, W) vs. Otake Hideo (JP, B) 1992-11-25 ; White won by resignation
7 Guo Juan (CHN, B) vs. Rui Naiwei (CHN, W) 1985-05-02 ; Black won by resignation
8 Groenen Geert (NL, W) vs. Guo Juan (CHN, B) 2003-05-31 ; White won
9 Debarre Thomas (FR, W) vs. Groenen Geert (NL, B) 2006-05-27 ; White won by 1,5 points
Note: some players are known as in different names (i.e. Murase Shuho is also known as Honinbo Shuho or Murase Yakichi, Honinbo Shuei as Hayashi Shuei, Shusai with Honinbo or Meijin or as Tamura Hoju...)
Possible Routes
Here are some other paths into Europe:
- Catalin Taranu (7) - Yamashiro Hiroshi (6) - Otake Hideo (5) - Kitani (4) - Shusai (3) - Shuei (2) - Shuho (1) - Shusaku (0)
- Alexandre Dinerchtein (7) - O Rissei (6) - Otake Hideo (5) - Kitani (4) - Shusai (3) - Shuei (2) - Shuho (1) - Shusaku (0)
- Hans Pietsch (6) - Yoda Norimoto (5) - Go Seigen (4) - Karigane (3) - Shuei (2) - Shuho (1) - Shusaku (0)
Hans Pietsch being at (6) is very potent, ofcourse. That puts at least Emil Nijhuis, Victor Bogdanov and Rob van Zeijst at (7). Not to mention tournaments he played when he was still a kyu player (not in the EGD).