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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.
Yoshiharu Habu (Japanese: 羽生 善治, Hepburn: Habu Yoshiharu, born September 27, 1970) is a professional shogi player and a chess FIDE Master.He is a former holder of the Ryūō, Meijin, Ōi, Ōza, Kiō, Ōshō and Kisei major titles.
These include the Chess Club, [58] in which students meet weekly to play chess, and JSA, [59] [60] in which students debate political issues. During the presidential race, the JSA club sponsors a mock debate between the candidates.
The radio personality regularly plays on an Internet Chess Club site. His rating is above 1600. [27] Leo Tolstoy The Russian novelist learned to play chess at a young age and late in life played chess frequently with his biographer Aylmer Maude writing "He had no book-knowledge of it, but had played much and was alert and ingenious."
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He learned to play chess when he was thirteen years old. Julio Becerra went to the chess academy in Havana frequently to play games with others and to improve. He became a grandmaster at the age of 23 in 1997. Julio Becerra won the Cuban Chess Championship in 1996 and 1998 and played in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996 and 1998. [1]
Marshall Chess Club; Mechanics' Institute Chess Club; Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco; R. Roanoke Valley Chess Club; S. Saint Louis Chess Club; U. UTRGV Chess