(;GM[1]FF[4]CA[UTF-8]AP[CGoban:3]ST[2]
RU[Japanese]SZ[19]KM[0.00]TM[144000]
GN[Master of Go, 11/8]PW[Honinbo Shusai]PB[Kitani Minoru]DT[1938-06-26,12-04]GC[Honinbo Shusai: 21st Honinbo (1874 - Jan 18, 1940)
]EV[Shusai's Last Game]PC[Tokyo, Hakone, Ito, Japan]SO[http://gobase.org/games/japan/masters/masters/shusai/game-3.sgf]US[J. Nievergelt, 11/1988]C[Dernière partie du Maître invincible. Commentaires et extraits provenant du  livre "Le Maître de Go". Enregistré initialement par Ron Reynolds en se servant du logiciel "Many Faces of Go" et d'un éditeur de texte.
En 1937, à l'âge de 63 ans, Honinbo Shusai annonça son intention de prendre sa retraite et qu'il jouerait sa dernière partie.
Un tournoi fut organisé parmi tous les joueurs 6 ème Dan et plus fort pour déterminer le dernier adversaire de Shusai. Kitani Minori gagna toutes  ses 5 parties, en battant en particulier  Kato Shin, Maeda Nobuaki et même deux de ses professeurs Kubomatsu Katsukiyo et  Suzuki Tamejiro. Ce fut la premier match à adopter le système des coups scéllés, ce qui veut dire que le dernier coup de chaque session etait consigné par écrit, et restait inconnu de tous excepté du joueur qui avait du jouer en dernier et était révélé au début de la session suivante de jeu.
]RE[B+5.00]
;B[qd]CR[qd]C[Première Session: 26 Juin 1939 - auberge du Koyokan Une ouverture conservatrice pour l'un des pionniers du nouveau Fuseki ( L'autre pionnier était Go Seigen)
]
;W[qp]CR[qp]C[Seconde Session: 27Juin  - Koyokan Coup scellé par le maître le jour d'avant.
]
;B[dq]CR[dq]C[Après 6 minutes de réflexion.]
;W[co]CR[co]
;B[ep]CR[ep]C[20 minutes de réflexion]
;W[od]CR[od]C[41 minutespour Blanc 6.]
;B[oc]CR[oc]
;W[nc]CR[nc]
;B[pc]CR[pc]
;W[md]CR[md]
;B[ne]CR[ne]
;W[oe]CR[oe]C[Troisième Session: 11 Juillet 11 - Hakone Le coup scellé par le Maître après 24 minutes de réflexion.
]
;B[nb]CR[nb]
;W[nf]CR[nf]
;B[mb]CR[mb]
;W[nq]CR[nq]
;B[pf]CR[pf]
;W[ce]CR[ce]
;B[cc]CR[cc]
;W[ed]CR[ed]
;B[ec]CR[ec]
;W[fc]CR[fc]
;B[fd]CR[fd]
;W[gd]CR[gd]
;B[fe]CR[fe]
;W[ee]CR[ee]C[Quatrième Session : 16 Juillet - Hakone 
Le coup scellé de Kitani.]
;B[gc]CR[gc]
;W[fb]CR[fb]
;B[eb]CR[eb]
;W[gb]CR[gb]
;B[ff]CR[ff]
;W[hc]CR[hc]
;B[ef]CR[ef]
;W[cd]CR[cd]
;B[bc]CR[bc]
;W[ch]CR[ch]
;B[di]CR[di]
;W[ci]CR[ci]
;B[dj]CR[dj]
;W[cj]CR[cj]
;B[dk]CR[dk]
;W[ck]CR[ck]C[En incluant le prochain coup, Noir 43, Kitani avait utilisé 6 heures et 52 minutes. Le Maître avait utilisé 4 heures et 38 Minutes.
]
;B[dl]CR[dl]C[Cinquième  Session:  21 Juillet- Hakone Coup scellé de Kitani. Le Maître commença à souffrir de douleurs dans la poitrine et perdit l'appetit.
]
;W[cm]CR[cm]
;B[dn]CR[dn]
;W[cn]CR[cn]
;B[dm]CR[dm]C[Selon le Maître, ce coup était trop conservateur mais selon Kitani et Go Seigen, c'est le coup authentique, qui donne à Noir une influence massive.
]
;W[jp]CR[jp]
;B[jc]CR[jc]
;W[je]CR[je]C[Le maîtreappela ce coup le chapeau. Il prit 16 minutes pour le choisir.]
;B[ie]CR[ie]
;W[jd]CR[jd]C[Le Maître appela ce coup l'impasse. Il y consacra 20 minutes.]
;B[id]CR[id]
;W[ic]CR[ic]
;B[kc]CR[kc]
;W[if]CR[if]
;B[he]CR[he]
;W[jf]CR[jf]C[Kitani appela ce coup "la liaison". Le Maîtr prit 35 minutes pour le jouer.
]
;B[hf]CR[hf]C[Kitani prit 3 heures et 35 minutes de réflexion sur ce coup.
]
;W[jb]CR[jb]
;B[kb]CR[kb]
;W[ia]CR[ia]
;B[no]CR[no]C[Seulement quelques instants de réflexion pour ce coup. Shusai considèra ce coup comme non orthodoxe.
]
;W[np]CR[np]C[Ce coup prit 1heure et 20 minutes au maître. Il utilisa ce jour là 3 heures et 29 minutes pour jouer 11 coups. Au total, il avait  utilisé 5 heures et 57 minutes tandis que Kitani avait pris 10 heures et 28 minutes
]
;B[lo]CR[lo]C[Sixième session:  26 Juillet  - Hakone coup scellé par Kitani]
;W[lp]CR[lp]
;B[le]CR[le]
;W[lf]CR[lf]
;B[kf]CR[kf]C[Ce coup fut qualifié de diabolique. Le Maître e s'était pas attendu à une attaque aussi violente;

]
;W[me]CR[me]C[Sa réponse lui coûta 1 heure et 46 minutes. Une parade brillante.

]
;B[lg]CR[lg]
;W[mf]CR[mf]
;B[kd]CR[kd]
;W[kg]CR[kg]
;B[ke]CR[ke]
;W[lh]CR[lh]
;B[jg]CR[jg]
;W[mg]CR[mg]
;B[ph]CR[ph]
;W[jh]CR[jh]C[Septième session: 31 Juillet - Hakoné. Seventh Session: July 31 - Hakone Le coup scellé du Maître lui prit 44 minutes.
]
;B[ig]CR[ig]
;W[ql]CR[ql]
;B[qj]CR[qj]C[Ce coup prit 1h 48 à Kitani. Le match entrait dans la phase du milieu de partie. Chaque coup était difficiel. Il était tout à fait clair de déterminer sur quels territoires le Blanc et le Noir avait misé and le moment approchait où un calcul du score final pourrait être possible. Se jeter immédiatemnt dans la confrontation finale, envahir la zone ennemi, provoquer l'adversaire dans un combat raproché ? Le temps était venu de  faire les comptes et de prévoir les phases à venir.
]
;W[rj]CR[rj]
;B[ri]CR[ri]
;W[ol]CR[ol]
;B[rk]CR[rk]
;W[ko]CR[ko]C[Huitième session: 5 Août - Hakone Le coup scellé du Maître. A ce point de la prtie, la santé cardiaque du Maître étairt devenue si mauvaise que les sessions furenr réduites à deux heures.]
;B[hq]CR[hq]C[Kitani joua ce coup après 48 minutes. Le maître reflechit à son coup pendant 2 heures et 7 minutes. Le coup le plus lent de la partie. Il fut scellé et la session fut interrompue.]
;W[hp]CR[hp]C[Neuvième Session:  10 Août - Hakone Le coup scellé du maître. A ce stade le maître ne pouvait plus marcher. Jusque là, Blanc avait utilisé 10 heures et 31 minutes et Noir 15 heures et 45 minutes. Le Maître prit deux heures et 7 minutes pour Blanc 90 - son coup le plus lent de la partie.]
;B[gp]CR[gp]
;W[gq]CR[gq]
;B[hr]CR[hr]
;W[iq]CR[iq]
;B[ho]CR[ho]
;W[ip]CR[ip]
;B[gr]CR[gr]
;W[kl]CR[kl]C[Kitani scella le coup suivant et la session se termina.
]
;B[ki]CR[ki]C[Dixième Session: 14 Août  14 - Hakone Coup scellé de  Kitani - un nozoki menacant de couper les pierres blanches du Maître.
Suivant un arrangement préalable, un seuk coup devait être joué ce jour. Le Maître réfléchit 33 minutes, le coup fut scellé et le jour même le maître entra à l'hôpital Saint Luc. La partie fut suspendue pendant 3 mois.Jusqu'à ce point, Blanc a utilisé  14 heures et 58 minuteset Noir 17 heures et 47 minutes.
]
;W[kh]CR[kh]C[Onzième session : 18 Novembre - Dankoen à  Ito -
 Le dernier coup à Hakoné, scellé par le maître le 4 Août, avant ses 3 mois d'hospitalisation. (Chapitre 30)
Plus tard, le maître trouva que Blanc 100 était le résultat d'une mauvaise analyse et qu'il aurait du ignorer le coup 99 et bloquer en S8 et sécurisé ainsi le territoire Blanc en bas à droite. Mais les commentateurs considérèrent que la connexion en Blanc 100 était naturelle.
Noir menacait, c'était sur mais il n'était pas obligé de me couper immédiatement et même s'il l'avait fait, je n'aurai pas été dans une situation difficile. Si j'avais utilisé 100 pour protéger mon propre territoire, la situation n'aurait pas permis à Noir d'être trop sanguinaire.
]
;B[rm]LB[rl:B][rm:A]C[This one move took Kitani 3 hours and 31 minutes after the three month recess. After making the move, Kitani said, "See what an idiot I am. It shouldn't have taken me a minute to make the jump. Three and a half hours deciding whether
to jump (A) or to swim(B)." "Black 101, invading the White formation in the lower right-hand corner, was an offensive play demanding a response and worth a potential fourteen or fifteen points."

]
;W[rl]CR[rl]C[The Master took only 5 minutes to respond.]
;B[sl]CR[sl]
;W[qm]CR[qm]C[Kitani sealed the final play of the session after 42 mintues. During this day Kitani used 4 hours 14 minutes and the Master used 10 minutes.
At this point Kitani has used up 21 hours 20 minutes of his alloted 40 hours.
]
;B[rn]CR[rn]C[Douzième  Session: 25 November  - Ito Coup scellé par  Kitani]
;W[qo]CR[qo]C[2 minutes for this move.]
;B[bp]CR[bp]C[1 hour 3 min Though this move doesn't require an immediate response, it extends Black's territory toward the lower left and is worth about twenty points.
]
;W[dg]CR[dg]C["Now the offensive had passed to White. A stern, intent expression on his face, the Master closed his eyes and breathed deeply. In the course of the session his face had taken on a coppery flush.
His cheeks twitched. He seemed to hear neither the wind nor the drum of a passing pilgrim. Yet he took forty seven minutes for his next move." Go Seigen said that White 108 was a very difficult move. It has the double aim of threatening Black in the upper left-hand corner and cutting away at Black's inner fastnesses, and of defending the White formation at the left of the board. Black 109, Kitani's sealed play, took 2 hours 43 minutes.
The Master took 47 min, his longest deliberation during the Ito sessions, for this move with a triple purpose: attack Black's corner, reduce Black's center, and defend White's group on the left.
]
;B[bd]CR[bd]C[Thirteenth Session: November 28 - Ito When his sealed move was opened, Kitani said "I must do something about that corner. It's on long-term loan, and the interest is high."
]
;W[be]CR[be]
;B[dc]CR[dc]
;W[go]CR[go]
;B[fq]CR[fq]
;W[hn]CR[hn]
;B[oj]CR[oj]C[This was not an easy play for Kitani. "The time had come to stake everything on a grand assault." White has to defend his center against the threat of invasion. Kitani "had not seemed prepared to play before the noon recess, but at eight minutes after the hour there came the smart click of stone on board. The Master grunted. He had been leaning on an armrest. Now he brought himself upright, his jaw drawn in, his eyes rolled upwards as if to bore a hole through the board. He had thick eyelids, and the deep lines from the eyelashes to the eyes set off the intentness of his gaze. White now needed to defend his inner territories against the clear threat presented
by Black 115."

]
;W[nj]CR[nj]C[White 116 took 22 minutes.]
;B[ni]CR[ni]
;W[mj]CR[mj]
;B[ok]CR[ok]
;W[nk]CR[nk]C["The plays down to White 120 came in quick succession. The standard
pattern would have had the Master falling quickly back with White
120, but he chose a firm block even though the result was an unstable triangular formation. The air was tense, for a showdown was at hand.
If he had given ground it would have been to conceed a point or two, and he could not make even so small a concession in so tight a match. He took just one minute for a play that could mean the fine difference between victory and defeat, and for [Kitani\] it
was like cold steel." "Games can be won and lost by a single point.
If White was clinging stubbornly to a mere two points, then it was for Black to step boldly forward." "[Kitani\] seemed to be fighting back a reckless impulse. 'I have a feeling I'm going to make a mistake.
Make a botch of the whole thing.'" He took 1 hour 44 minutes to seal the move.

The standard pattern at 'a' would have avoided an unstable empty triangle, but would have conceded a point or two. The Master could not afford even so small a concession in this tight match.
]
;B[hd]CR[hd]C[Fourteenth Session:  December 1 - Ito Kitani's sealed Black 121 was met with much resentment. "...it had the look of a play from the ko situation to a distant part of the board. A wave of revulsion came over me[Kawabata\]. Had [Kitani\] taken advantage of the fact that Black 121 was a sealed play? Had he put the device of the sealed play to tactical use? If so, he was not being worthy of himself."
]
;W[hb]CR[hb]
;B[qn]CR[qn]C["Black 123, which took three minutes, brought [Kitani\] back to the task of cutting into the White formation. He first invaded the lower right corner."
]
;W[pn]CR[pn]
;B[sp]CR[sp]
;W[rq]CR[rq]
;B[mi]CR[mi]C["Black 127 turned once more to the center of the board..."]
;W[li]CR[li]
;B[nl]CR[nl]C["...and Black 129 finally lashed out to decapitate the triangle the Master had so stubbornly put together with White 120." Go Seigen: "Firmly blocked by White 120, Black embarked with resolution upon
the aggressive sequence from Black 123 to Black 129. It is the sort of play, suggesting a strongly competitive spirit, which one sees in close games."

]
;W[ro]CR[ro]C["But the Master pulled away from this slashing attack, and, counterattacking to the right, blocked the thrust from the Black position. I was startled. It was a wholly unexpected play. I felt a tensing of my muscles, as if the diabolic side of the Master had suddenly been
revealed. Detecting a flaw in the plans suggested by Black 129, so much in [Kitani's\] own characteristic style, had the Master dodged away and turned to in-fighting by way of counterattack? Or was he asking for a slash so that he might slash back, wounding himself to down his adversary? I even saw in that White 130 something that spoke less of a will to fight than of angry disdain. 'A fine thing,' [Kitani\] muttered over and over. 'A very fine thing.' He was still deliberating Black 131 when the noon recess was called. 'A fine thing he's done to me. A terrible thing, that's what it is. Earthshaking.
I make a stupid play myself, and here I am with my arm twisted behind me.'" White 130 turns out to be the fatal move for White. After this move Kitani's victory is certain. "The Master lamented the play in his review of the match. 'White 130 was the fatal error.
The proper sequence would have been to cut immediately at P-11(A), and see how Black replied. If for instance he replied at P-12(B), then White 130 would be the correct play. Even if he extended, as with Black 131, White need not hurry with the oblique extension at Q-8(C), but could quietly consolidate his ranks with M-9(D). Whatever variations might have occured, the lines would have been more complex than on the chart as we have it, and an extrememly close fight would have ensued.' During the noon recess the Master was quoted as saying, "The match is over. Mr. [Kitani\] ruined it with that sealed play. It was like smearing ink over the picture we had painted. The minute I saw it I felt like forfeiting the match.
Like telling them it was the last straw. I really thought I should forfeit. But I hesitated, and that was that." Go Seigen, however, had this to say: "White need not respond as the Master did with 122 even to Black's 121, but could defend himself at H-19(X). Black
would thus find the possible plays from ko more limited." "A year later, however, in 'Selected Pieces on Go,' from Collected Works of the Master, he[Master Shusai\] spoke out quite openly. 'Now was the time to make effective use of Black 121. We must note that if
[Kitani\] proceeded at his leisure (which is to say waited until White had linked diagonally), there was a chance that Black 121 would not suffice.'"

The Master ignores White's slashing attack, and instead counterattacks on the right. But W130 assured the defeat of the invincible Master.
During the following recess the Master complained about the sealed move W121. "Kitani ruined the game with that sealed move. Why? He means to use two days to think things over. It's dishonest".

]
;B[nm]CR[nm]C["[Kitani\] seems to have been by no means as startled and confused
by White's withdrawal as the rest of us were. If White took the
four black stones to the right, Black would quite simply overrun
the White ranks toward the center of the board." "[Kitani\] pondered
over Black 131 for 1 hour 15 minutes... At two in the afternoon
he took up a stone. 'Shall I?' He paused and finally played. The
Master, seated bold upright, thrust his head forward and rapped
irritably on the rim of the brazier. He glared at the board. He
was counting up points."
]
;W[om]CR[om]C["White returned to the defense at the center with White 132."]
;B[lj]CR[lj]C[After the match, the Master was quoted as saying, "The coup de grace
came with the assault following Black 133. However desperate he
might be in his search for remedies, White was powerless to send
the crushing wave back." "The White triangle that had been cut off
by Black 129 was cut on the other side by Black 133..."
]
;W[mk]CR[mk]
;B[lk]CR[lk]
;W[ml]CR[ml]
;B[ll]CR[ll]
;W[mm]CR[mm]
;B[lm]CR[lm]C["...with white stones in check play after play down to Black 139, the 'earthshaking' changes of which [Kitani\] had spoken took shape around and below the three white stones. Black had invaded the very
heart of the White formation. I could almost hear the sound of the collapse."
]
;W[mn]CR[mn]
;B[ln]CR[ln]
;W[mo]CR[mo]
;B[jj]CR[jj]
;W[ir]CR[ir]C[Black 145 was the sealed play.]
;B[so]CR[so]C[Fifteenth Session: December 4 - Ito "'I think I would like if possible to finish today,' the Master said to the managers on the morning of December 4." "The faithful battle reporter, I felt a tightening in my chest at the thought that after more than half a year the match was to finish today. And the Master's defeat was clear to everyone." "The tension of the final encounter at close quarters is unlike that through the opening and middle stages. Raw nerves seem to flash, there is something grand and even awesome about the
two figures pressing forward into closer combat. Breath came more rapidly, as if two warriors were parrying with dirks; fires of knowledge
and wisdom seemed to blaze up."
]
;W[sq]CR[sq]
;B[sm]CR[sm]
;W[bo]CR[bo]
;B[bq]CR[bq]
;W[ik]CR[ik]
;B[ij]CR[ij]
;W[hj]CR[hj]
;B[ii]CR[ii]
;W[jk]CR[jk]
;B[hl]CR[hl]
;W[hk]CR[hk]
;B[fo]CR[fo]
;W[gn]CR[gn]
;B[gl]CR[gl]
;W[il]CR[il]
;B[cl]CR[cl]
;W[bl]CR[bl]
;B[nh]CR[nh]
;W[mh]CR[mh]
;B[qk]CR[qk]
;W[og]CR[og]
;B[pg]CR[pg]
;W[ea]CR[ea]
;B[da]CR[da]
;W[fa]CR[fa]
;B[ba]CR[ba]
;W[hm]CR[hm]
;B[is]CR[is]
;W[js]CR[js]
;B[hs]CR[hs]
;W[jr]CR[jr]
;B[ae]CR[ae]
;W[af]CR[af]
;B[ad]CR[ad]
;W[cf]CR[cf]
;B[pl]CR[pl]
;W[pm]CR[pm]
;B[pk]CR[pk]
;W[nn]CR[nn]
;B[fm]CR[fm]
;W[fn]CR[fn]
;B[en]CR[en]
;W[ao]CR[ao]
;B[km]CR[km]
;W[jm]CR[jm]
;B[fk]CR[fk]C["When [Kitani\] played Black 191, the Master's head fell forward, his eyes were wide, he moved nearer the board. Both men were fanning themselves violently."
]
;W[do]CR[do]
;B[eo]CR[eo]
;W[hi]CR[hi]
;B[ih]CR[ih]C[The noon recess.]
;W[fj]CR[fj]
;B[dd]CR[dd]
;W[ej]CR[ej]
;B[ek]CR[ek]
;W[de]CR[de]C["The last stages of a grand match, I had heard, were so horrible that one could scarcely bear to watch. Yet the Master seemed quite unperturbed. One would not have guessed that he was the loser."
]
;B[bg]CR[bg]
;W[bf]CR[bf]
;B[cg]CR[cg]
;W[bh]CR[bh]
;B[df]CR[df]
;W[ag]CR[ag]
;B[dh]CR[dh]
;W[fh]CR[fh]
;B[eh]CR[eh]
;W[cg]CR[cg]
;B[fi]CR[fi]
;W[gi]CR[gi]
;B[ei]CR[ei]
;W[kk]CR[kk]
;B[kj]CR[kj]
;W[gg]CR[gg]
;B[ka]CR[ka]
;W[ja]CR[ja]
;B[kn]CR[kn]
;W[jn]CR[jn]
;B[gj]CR[gj]
;W[gk]CR[gk]
;B[fj]CR[fj]
;W[gm]CR[gm]
;B[fl]CR[fl]
;W[ap]CR[ap]
;B[aq]CR[aq]
;W[cp]CR[cp]
;B[cq]CR[cq]
;W[oh]CR[oh]
;B[oi]CR[oi]
;W[pe]CR[pe]
;B[qe]CR[qe]
;W[nd]CR[nd]
;B[sk]CR[sk]
;W[lc]CR[lc]
;B[lb]CR[lb]C["He[the Master\] was utterly quiet when [Kitani\] made the last play, Black 237. As the Master filled in a neutral point, Onoda [one of the judges\] said: 'It will be five points?' 'Yes, five points,' said the Master." "What would have been the outcome, then, if the Master had not blundered and the 'earthshaking' changes had not come? A defeat for Black? An amateur like myself cannot really say, but I do not think that Black would have lost. I had come almost to believe as an article of faith, from the manner, the resolve, with which [Kitani\] approached the game, that he would avert defeat even if in the process he must chew the stones to bits." For the entire game the Master had used 19 hours 57 minutes and Kitani had used 34 hours 19 minutes. A year and 45 days later the 21st and last of the hereditary Honinbo, Shusai Meijin, passed away. To quote the first Honinbo, Sansa Meijin, "If [life\] were go, I'd start a ko fight and surely live, but on the road to death there's no move left at all."
])
