Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A professional shogi player (将棋棋士 shōgi kishi or プロ棋士 puro kishi "professional player") is a shogi player who is usually a member of a professional guild of shogi players. There are two categories of professional players: regular professional and women's professional.
Ueno was born in Kakogawa, Hyōgo on May 5, 2003. [1] He learned how to play shogi from his father at the age of five, [2] and began taking classes taught by shogi professional Keita Inoue at the Kakogawa Shogi Club as a first-grade elementary school student. [3]
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. He was the first person to simultaneously hold seven major professional shogi titles at the same time and ...
Sōta Fujii (藤井 聡太, Fujii Sōta, born July 19, 2002 in Seto, Aichi) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 9-dan.He is the current holder of the Kiō, Kisei, Meijin, Ōi, Ōshō, Ōza and Ryūō titles, and a former holder of the Eiō title.
Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: / ˈ ʃ oʊ ɡ i /, [1] Japanese:), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi.
Tomoki Yokoyama was born in Kakogawa, Hyōgo on January 26, 2000. [1] He learned how to play shogi from his father, [2] and was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's (JSA) apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū under the tutelage of shogi professional Keita Inoue in September 2012.
Masayuki Toyoshima (豊島 将之, Toyoshima Masayuki, born April 30, 1990) is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a former holder of the Ry ...
Pages in category "Japanese shogi players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 292 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .