Takao:
It was a painful/difficult game but in the end I won by half a point by winning the last half-point ko. It was a very lucky win. I'll keep doing my best.
Tomorrow I will play against Cho U again, in the NEC Cup.
The game is in Osaka where I am now going from Ishigawa.
I was planning to go by train but because of the heavy snow, the trains are not moving.
Since going by car would be dangerous too, I ended up going back to Narita airport from where I'll continue to Osaka.
I'm now having a slow lunch at Narita.
Mimura was doing the public commentary at the Nihon Ki-in:
When I started the commentary the game was in the large yose stage. I was saying that it looked like black was winning, but...
As the game progressed, the margin seemed smaller and smaller. Facing the demonstration board, I was desperately trying to calculate the score. I think I did it more than ten times but I just couldn't come to a conclusion. *sweating*
From the fifth floor, where top professionals were discussing the game, word was that white was winning by half a point. From the seventh floor, it was reported that the younger generation thought black was winning. Eventually, after a few more moves, the fifth floor revised their prediction to a black half-point win.
