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Akira Watanabe (渡辺 明, Watanabe Akira, born April 23, 1984) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 9-dan. He is a former holder of the Meijin, Kisei, Ōshō, Ōza, Kiō and Ryūō titles. He is also a Lifetime Kiō and a Lifetime Ryūō title holder.
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.
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)
Watanabe was born on October 6, 1994, in Shinjuku, Tokyo. [1] He learned how to play shogi from his father when he was about five years old, [2] and was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school under the guidance of shogi professional Takahiro Toyokawa at the rank of 6-kyū in February 2008.
Shōgo Orita (折田 翔吾, Orita Shōgo, October 28, 1989) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5-dan. [1]Orita is the fourth amateur to obtain professional status without doing so via the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice professional school after he became the second player to pass the Professional Admission Test in February 2020.
Yoshiyuki Kubota was born in Adachi, Tokyo on May 18, 1972. [2] In 1984, he won the 9th Elementary School Student Meijin Tournament [], and later that same year entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū under the guidance of shogi professional Motoji Hanamura [].
He learned shogi at a shogi class taught by shogi professional Kazukiyo Takashima , and in 1975 he was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school under the guidance of Takashima at the rank of 5-kyū. He was promoted to the rank of 1-dan in 1977, and obtained full professional status and the rank of 4-dan in October 1978. [2] [3]
Hiroaki Yokoyama was born on October 16, 1980, in Tama, Tokyo. [1] He was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū as a student of shogi professional Noboru Sakurai [] in August 1993, was promoted to 1-dan in July 1999, and finally obtained full professional status and corresponding rank of 4-dan in October 2002.