Pechin Hamahiga

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Pechin Hamahiga was a top Ryukyuan? player in late seventeenth century, played Dosaku on four stones in 1682.

White is Honinbo Dosaku, Meijin. Black is Pechin Hamahiga. The game is known for a trap set up by Dosaku. In the basic joseki dictionary of Ishida Yoshio, there is a reference to this game, which Ishida considers as the first ever official international go game .

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In fact in the actual game Black played B8 at a and avoided the trap. The diagram below is often mistakenly given as the actual game continuation; it is not.

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