Later that day, he confided to his colleague Hiroshi Kobayashi that he had come up with the B-42 move and believed he might have won had he played it.
However, he feared this would extend the match against Toyoshima and felt he could not endure a longer game.
[4] When he was later interviewed, Toyoshima acknowledged that the move would indeed have required a long time to formulate a response.
Amazed at the move's recurrence during Manabe's wake, Kobayashi claimed it was a kind of miracle.
[4] The move was proposed for consideration for the then-upcoming Masuda Special Award, which was granted to Manabe posthumously in 2008.