“They are the best you will find anywhere,” said Kimura, Master of
Chess. “Perhaps I might be allowed to touch one or two.” He took up a
handful.
Go boards can be of great value, and several players had brought boards
of which they were proud, as if asking permission to make at least one play
in this grandest of matches.
The banquet began after a recess.
Kimura, Master of Chess, was thirty-four, Sekiné, thirteenth Grand
Master of Chess, was seventy-one, and Takagi, Master of Renju, was fifty-
one, all by the Oriental count.
