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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.
Reo Koyama (小山 怜央, Koyama Reo, July 2, 1993) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 4-dan.He is the third person since the end of World War II to be awarded professional status by the Japan Shogi Association (JSA) for passing the Professional Admission Test and the first to do so who was not a former member of the JSA's apprentice school.
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.
Naka was born on August 7. 1998, in Kobe, Japan. [1] She learned how to play shogi from her older brother [2] when she was an first-grade elementary school student. [3] While in elementary school, Naka was Hyōgo Prefecture's representative in several national elementary school tournaments for girls, and won the All-Japan Elementary Student Girl's Meijin Tournament [] in 2008 as a fourth-grade ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Toshiyuki Moriuchi (森内 俊之, Moriuchi Toshiyuki, born October 10, 1970) is a Japanese professional shogi player, ranked 9-dan. He is a Lifetime Meijin who won the title eight times, and also a former Ryūō, Kiō and Ōshō title holder. He is also a former senior managing director of the Japan Shogi Association.