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The Japan Shogi Association (日本将棋連盟, Nihon Shōgi Renmei), or JSA, [a] is the primary organizing body for professional shogi in Japan. [5] [6] The JSA sets the professional calendar, negotiates sponsorship and media promotion deals, helps organize tournaments and title matches, publishes shogi-related materials, supervises and trains apprentice professionals as well as many other ...
Shōji Segawa was unable to gain promotion to 4-dan professional before turning 26 in 1996, and thus was required to withdraw from the JSA's apprentice school. Segawa continued to play shogi as an amateur and won a number of national amateur tournaments which allowed him to qualify for tournaments involving professionals.
In February 2022, the JSA instituted new provisional rules for official game play that had previously only be recommended practices in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. These rules required players to properly wear a face mask during official games, except when eating, drinking or other instances where masks may be allowed to be ...
On October 29, 2020, however, the JSA announced that title match format would change to a best-of-five format starting with the 6th Eiō Tournament in conjunction with Fujiya Co. replacing Dwango as the tournament's cosponsor. In addition, the time control for each game of the final match would change to four hours per player followed by a ...
Shōji Segawa (瀬川 晶司, Segawa Shōji, born March 23, 1970) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 6-dan. [1] Segawa is known for becoming a professional player without being promoted by winning the 3-dan tournament within the professional apprenticeship program, which subsequently led to Japan Shogi Association establishing the Professional Admission Test as way for amateurs who ...
Today: Is it ever acceptable to not play to win? The scenario. Denver went into Week 17 needing only a tie against Cincinnati to claim a guaranteed playoff berth. On one hand, it seems like an ...
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81Dojo (Japanese: hachi-jū-ichi dōjō, hachi-jū-ichi or hachi-ichi) is a non-profit internet shogi server and internet forum.While the site is based in Japan, there is an additional English language version of the website, making it possible to play against non-Japanese players.