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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.
JSA may refer to: Jaisalmer Airport (IATA Code) Japan Shogi Association; Japan Sumo Association; Japanese School of Amsterdam; Japanese Standards Association;
World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday after he refused to change out of the jeans he was wearing, according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE).
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Seirawan began playing chess at 12; at 13, he became Washington junior champion. At 19, he won the World Junior Chess Championship.He also won a game against Viktor Korchnoi, who had two years earlier narrowly lost a match for the world championship.
The Diamondbacks, which have made the playoffs seven times since they began play in 1998, own one World Series title. That came in 2001 when it dispatched the New York Yankees in a thrilling seven ...
The Diamondbacks' stadium has hosted one World Series, like the Rangers' stadium, but the Diamondbacks played and won that World Series in 2001. The Diamondbacks first played a regular-season game ...