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Watanabe was born on April 23, 1984, in Katsushika, Tokyo. [1] He learned how to play shogi from his father, who was an amateur 5-dan ranked player. [2] [3] He won the Elementary School Student Meijin Tournament in 1994 as a fourth-grade student at Hokizuka Elementary School. [4] He was the first fourth-grade winner in the history of the ...
Professional shogi players, Yoshiharu Habu and Akira Watanabe, in 2014 with women's professional player Aya Fujita as timekeeper and (former) apprentice professional Naoto Kawasaki as game recorder Professional shogi players at a human shogi [] exhibition match in Himeji, Japan in 2018.
Three days before Miura was to begin play against reigning Ryūō Akira Watanabe, however, the Japan Shogi Association (JSA) announced that Maruyama was replacing Miura as the challenger. The official reason given by the JSA had to do with Miura failing to follow proper procedure in requesting to be allowed to withdraw from the match, but there ...
Akira Watanabe (chess player) (渡辺 暁, born 1972), Japanese political scientist and chess player Akira Watanabe (shogi) ( 渡辺 明 , born 1984) , Japanese shogi player Akira Watanabe, director of the 1987 anime Zillion (anime)
This trend became obvious when comparing the winning percentages of top players – Yoshiharu Habu, Toshiyuki Moriuchi, Yasumitsu Satō and Akira Watanabe – when playing Static Rook Anaguma. For instance, Satō was achieving a winning percentage of above 70% (except for a 58.8% when playing White), and Habu a total (as Black and White) win ...
Miura was participating in the 2nd Denou-sen—a series of games between five shogi professionals and five computer programs—and his game was the final one of the series. [10] In January 2014, Miura defeated Takuya Nagase to win the 39th Kiō challenger tournament (2013–2014) to advance to the 39th Kiō title match against Akira Watanabe. [11]
This category including the players from 東京都区部 Tokyo proper (that is, the special wards of Tokyo or the old Tokyo City). Pages in category "Professional shogi players from Tokyo" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
The Annual Shogi Awards (将棋大賞 shōgi taishō) are a number of prizes awarded yearly by the Japan Shogi Association to professional and amateur shogi players who have achieved particular success. The first Annual Shogi Awards were presented in 1974.