From BGJ #79 (Summer 1990), The Fujitsu Cup, Michael Macfadyen (pg. 6)
The Fujitsu Cup is a knockout tournament for top players, except that there are token foreigners to make up numbers. I was privileged to represent Europe in last year’s event (…) I was delighted to find myself matched against Otake. (…) He seemed to regard it as a great joke to have to play an amateur on evens, which was something of a relief as some of the pros would think it a bit of an insult.
The game started badly for me when I lost the nigiri and had to take White.
At this time komi was 5.5. After reading a comment in the BGJ from as early as 1980 suggesting that 5.5 komi was too low, I’ve started to wonder whether this opinion was actually widely held through the '80s and '90s, which would have lent more weight to the idea of “winning” or “losing” the nigiri.