Keith L. Arnold, hka, with Patrick Bannister
Fujisawa Shuko (left) defeats Sakata Eio
I was pleased that I was not the only one to struggle with identifying Takagi Shoichi, pictured last month. It takes a pro to know one, congratulations to Alexandre Dinerchtein for recognizing the Mt. Holyoke Congress attendee and winner of his second title this month fifty years ago.
On August 6, Fujisawa Shuko defeated Sakata Eio for the right to challenge Rin Kaiho for the Meijin title. (game record here) Rin can be seen watching along with Takagawa, Otake and Awaji Shuzo. Shuko started the match on August 28 in classic style, winning the first game while using only 4 hours and 25 minutes of his clock in the two day match.
Here we see the great Iwamoto waving goodbye (top left) as he takes an extended trip to spread go in the west. Leaving Tokyo on August 7, his itinerary included Berlin, Frankfurt, Zagreb and Vienna.
He would leave behind the E-Journal’s own Richard Dolen (bottom right), who was visiting Japan during an extended research visit. The then-4dan college professor also took part in the third annual match (top right) on August 23 between the “Gaijin” (foreigner) team and the Koyukai, a woman’s go group at the Nihon Kiin. The all-male team were victorious, winners including Dolen, Richard Bozulich, Horst Muller, William Pinckard, John Tilley and future Congress Director Stuart Horowitz. The two losses for the west were U.S. attorney Gene Kazlow on board one, and the late T. Mark Hall, co-creator of GoGod.
Speaking of Richard Bozulich, not only was the founder of Ishi Press victorious on board 2, here he is (bottom left, in the glasses) enjoying some whiskey with Iwamoto and others in an ad in the August issue of Go Weekly.
