Li League Round 1 Match 1 - Team Igo&Shogi vs Fukuoka
1st Match is here! This will be fascinating for many reasons beyond the Go played itself mainly as it will give better information as to how the format will operate and coalesce guesses into information. So we should find out how the teams announce who is on what tables, whether they will go for the 1st board having the stone count for colour or not (and if that rolls down to the subsidiary tables, we wont find out if the opposing team auto gets the opposite colour in the Blitz games until those start - no guarantees this will happen as it could also be home team gets black/white/black etc etc) Another thing which leaps to mind is in the league match logo above shows 3 of each team members and not 4 so are these the players who will be playing? will is be in that order? At a guess this is a composite shot and not a taken shot? And an update. Since the match is now 3 days away we have a pairings image So the boards are not following the above image, Fukuoka went for their captain ...
