“Anything could happen now,” said Otaké, half jesting, as he left for the
noon recess. “It’s murderous.”
White 108 had the double aim of threatening Black in the upper left-hand
corner and cutting away at Black’s inner fastnesses, and of defending the
White formation at the left of the board. It was a happy device.
Wu said of it in his commentary: “White 108 was an extremely difficult
play. One waited with not a little excitement to see where it would fall.”
