Niconico will be showing all of the Honinbo matches live with commentary.

http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2013/05/10/310/index.html

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http://live.nicovideo.jp/

I've watched some of the big shogi matches there, and it's been interesting. It's great to see more Go there. One of the female kisei matches was on niconico earlier but that is a blitz game. Here are the two full day matches.

Thank-you for sharing oren.

Will there be vods of this commentary? I assume they're doing this as a stream. I'll almost certainly not be able to watch this live, but it sounds interesting.

You can do reserve timeshift on it and watch it the next day. (I think this is how it works)

They don't keep it up forever though.

Iyama won the first game by 4.5. Here is an sgf with the comments from wbaduk.

The reserve timeshift and watch the next day did work for me.

Takao took game 2, series tied at 1-1.

Thank you so much for posting these, oren!

This was a really fascinating and entertaining game. I'm very much looking forward to studying the file. I could have sworn Iyama would win after the last big ko was settled.

In his blog Takao says he felt relieved to finally win one after losing five 2-day games in a row to Iyama (he was blanked 0-4 in the 2010 Meijin).

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Going by memory of what they were saying online, but I think his first 14 games against Iyama were 13-1 before going 2-2 last year?

http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/jp/honinbo.html
It says currently 17-5, so it's not far off.

It seems so. On the Honinbo competitor profile page it says they are 17-5 lifetime and 4-4 since 2011 (that's through 4/22).

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Dave Sigaty
"Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered..."
- Marcus Aurelius; Meditations, VIII 21

In other news, Iyama lost today to Cho U in the Meijin league. This leaves Iyama with only theoretical chances to become the challenger.
Things are not going his way at the moment.

Next game starts in about six hours.

Takao takes game 3 in Kushiro, Hokkaido. He's now up in the series 2-1.

Iyama wins game 4 (B+R) to tie series at 2-2.

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"Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered..."
- Marcus Aurelius; Meditations, VIII 21

D13 in the last one looks funny to me. The result turned out OK, but it was weird.

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Game 5 is under way.

Is game 5 the decisive game?

No, it's 2-2 right now in a best of seven.

Game 6 will be starting in ~5 hours.

Iyama is up 3-2.

Earlier in the week he dropped the first game of Gosei to Kono Rin in Kanazawa, but won the Asia TV cup before that in Tokyo. It's a very busy schedule for him as he now plays in Mie.

I'm assuming that's why he pulled out of Mlily cup and Murakawa Daisuke played.