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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 ...
Only two players have qualified for the Lifetime Ryūō title: Akira Watanabe and Yoshiharu Habu. Watanabe qualified for the title by winning his fifth championship in a row in 2008 (he has also won the title eleven times), [ 6 ] whereas Habu qualified by winning his 7th title overall in 2017. [ 7 ]
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)
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.
Akira Watanabe; Atsushi Miyata; ... Kazuharu Shoshi (所司 和晴, Shoshi Kazuharu, born October 23, 1961) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 7-dan. [1]
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.
In 2015, Namekata finished tied for first with Akira Watanabe, Toshiaki Kubo and Akihito Hirose in the Class A league for the right to challenge to Habu for the 73rd Meijin title. Each player finished league play with 6 wins and 3 losses, so a playoff was held to determine the challenger.