The long final battle, the last obsession of a peerless chess player
In June 1938, an unprecedented Go farewell match kicked off. The two sides in the game are the "undefeated celebrity" Hideya Honinbo and the rising star Minoru Kitani. This six-month arduous battle tested the 64-year-old last leader of Honinbo. When the last piece fell, an era of Japanese Go came to an end, and Hideya's obsessive life also came to an end...
