Official News Release

　Abe Takashi 8-dan, aged 52,has been promoted to 9-dan by winning the following game.

Date of promotion:

July 15th 2020（Wed）

Game:

The promotion game in 5th group for the 33rd Ryuo Tournament
(Opponent: Fujikura Yuki 5-Dan)

Promotion criteria met:

250 wins in the official games after 8-dan promotion

The 2nd of 5 games at the 2nd Hulic Cup Seiryu Tournament was held on Friday, July 10 at Shogi Kaikan in Tokyo, Satomi Kana Seirei defeated Ueda Hatsumi women's 4-dan with 110 moves and recorded 2 consecutive wins and 0 loss out of 5 games.

The 3rd game will be held on Friday, July 31 at the Shogi Kaikan in Tokyo.

For more information, please visitthe website of Seirei Tournament live broadcast or the mobile app of Japan Shogi Association live broadcast.

　The 69th Osaka Ōshō Cup Ceremony was held in Tokyo Dome Hotel on July 7th to celebrate the 69th title winner, Watanabe Akira .
The scene was reported in the Mainichi Shimbun and Sports Nippon published on July 8th.
In addition, the video is now on available to watch on YouTube from 3 pm on July 8th.

The URL of YouTube video is here;https://youtu.be/U7SjrXkGy_A

At 81Dojo, the free online playing site under the patronage of JSA, a teaching game event for the winners of the World Shogi League will be held for the third time. JSA invites you to come and watch the games.

9-Dan Habu Yoshiharu　　7-Dan Nakamura Taichi　　6-Dan Ohira Takehiro

6-Dan Toyama Yusuke　　5-Dan Aoshima Mirai　　Ladies 2-Dan Kitao Madoka　　Ladies 1-kyu Styczynska Karolina

Start time			Pro	Amateur(81Nickname)	Handicap
Japan	UTC	Hungary
4/12（日）18:00	April 12th Sun.9:00	April 12th Sun.11:00	Yoshiharu Habu 9dan	Alexander　Miszko (dstn3422)	Bishop
4/12（日）19:00	April 12th Sun.10:00	April 12th Sun.12:00	Taichi Nakamura 7dan	Peter　Puha (shift2shift)	Rook
4/12（日）20:00	April 12th Sun.11:00	April 12th Sun.13:00	Yusuke Toyama 6dan	Laszlo　Abuczki (Linkuei)	Even

Start time			Pro	Amateur(81Nickname)	Handicap
Japan	UTC	Ukraine
4/19（日）18:00	April 19th Sun.9:00	April 19th Sun.12:00	Takehiro Ohira 6dan	Sergiy　Krivosheya (skzt)	Rook
4/19（日）19:00	April 19th　Sun.10:00	April 19th　Sun.13:00	Takehiro Ohira 6dan	Sergiy　Trokhymyshyn (SergiiT)	Bishop
4/19（日）20:00	April 19th　Sun.11:00	April 19th　Sun.14:00	Karolina STYCZYNSKA Ladies 1kyu	Yashchur　 Mykola (nick777)	Even

Start time			Pro	Amateur(81Nickname)	Handicap
Japan	UTC	Malaysia
5/2（土）18:00	May 2nd Sat.9:00	May 2nd Sat.17:00	Mirai Aoshima 5dan	Ng Teck　Sen (NorikatsuMiyamoto)	Even
5/2（土）19:00	May 2nd Sat.10:00	May 2nd Sat.18:00	Mirai Aoshima 5dan	Tan Wei Hong (whtan02)	Even
5/2（土）20:00	May 2nd Sat.11:00	May 2nd Sat.19:00	Madoka Kitao Ladies 2dan	Tan Tzi Yang (tantziyang)	Even

Start time			Pro	Amateur(81Nickname)	Handicap
Japan	UTC	France
5/10（日）18:00	May 10th Sun.9:00	May 10th Sun.11:00	Madoka Kitao Ladies 2dan	Sebastien　de GROOT (DarumaGama)	2 piece
5/10（日）19:00	May 10th Sun.10:00	May 10th Sun.12:00	Madoka Kitao Ladies 2dan	Guillaume　Tatti (Aavygeil)	2 piece
5/10（日）20:00	May 10th Sun.11:00	May 10th Sun.13:00	Karolina STYCZYNSKA Ladies 1kyu	Tristan　 Trannin (TristanT)	Even

World Shogi League is a tournament between countries played by 3-player teams that are divided into four leagues: A, B, C, and D. It is organized by Thomas Pfaffel from Austria, who was aso the invited player of the 29th Amateur Ryuo Tournament. (Seee also: https://www.shogi.or.jp/event/2016/06/29_10.html) Anyone can watch the teaching games at 81Dojo.

On April 12th, there is also an English live broadcast by Ladies 1-kyu Karolina Styczynska: https://www.twitch.tv/shogi_harbour

※81Dojo's server has a certain capacity limit for number of online users. For details, please contact info@81dojo.com

In light of Covid-19 pandemic Shogi Renmei postpones the following events.

78th Meijinsen 7-match

1st to 3rd games

Shoreikai　3 Dan League & Regular games of 2 Dan and below both at East and West branch.

3 Dan League opening and Regular games during April 7th to May 6th.

　Very much appreciated your cooperation and understanding.

　Due to the wide spreading Covid-19 infection, the committee decided to postpone the opening game of Meijinsen 7-match scheduled during April 8th to 9th in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. This is to carry out 2-day long game without any troubles.
　The committee is considering to shift the 4th game scheduled during May 19th to 20th in Takayama, Nagano to the opening game. The committee will announce the later schedule and locations of the games as soon as decided.

　Ido Chihiro Ladies 2-Dan takes maternity and parental leave during 2020/4/1～2020/8/31.
It would be greatly appreciated your support and consideration.

Shogi Grand Award Committee meeting was held to publicly recognize the Shogi players contributed in 2019 fiscal year at Shogi Kaikan in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo on 4/1/2020. Each award of 47th Shogi Grand awards was selected as follows.

List of 47th Shogi Grand Awards

【Best Player Award】

Watanabe Akira 3-crown (2nd time)

【Special Award】

Kimura Kazuki Oi (1st time)

【Excellent Player Award】

Toyoshima Masayuki Ryuo Meijin (1st time)

【Fighting-spirit Award】

Nagase Takuya 2-crown (1st time)

【New Face Award】

Honda Kei 5-Dan

【Most Games Award】

Sasaki Daichi 5-Dan　67 games (1st time)

【Most Wins Award】

Fujii Souta 7-Dan　53 wins (2nd time)

【Best Win Rate Award】

Fujii Souta 7-Dan 53wins 12 loses 0.815 (3rd time, 3 consecutive years)

【Most Consecutive Wins Award】

Nagase Takuya 2-crown　15 consecutive wins (2019/2/22～2019/4/23) (3rd time)

【Ladies Best Player Award】

Satomi Kana Ladies 4-crown (10th time, 5 consecutive years)

【Ladies Excellent Player Award】

Ito Sae Ladies 3-Dan (2nd time)

【Ladies Most Games Award】

Ito Sae Ladies 3-Dan (3rd time, 3 consecutive years) 46 Games

【Tokyo Shogi Reporters Award】

Takahashi Yamato Ladies 3-Dan

【Masuda Kozo Award】

elmo (elmo castle)

【Masuda Kozo Special Award】

Waki Kenji 8-Dan (Waki System)

【Best Game Award】

60th Oi 7th Game Toyoshima Masayuki Oi vs Kimura Kazuki 9-Dan

【Ladies Best Game Award】

9th Ricoh Cup Ladies Oza 4th Game　
Satomi Kana Ladies Oza vs Nishiyama Tomoka Queen & Ladies Osho

【Best Game Special Award】

69th Osaka Osho Cup Challenger League　
Hirose Akihito Ryuo vs Fujii Souta 7-Dan

※ 【Ladies Player Award】has been replaced to【Excellent Ladies Player Award】 since 45th (2017).
　【Ladies Best Game Award】has newly founded since 46th (2018).

Notification of Ladies players leave as follows.

■Leave
Hayamizu Chisa　Ladies 3-Dan　（2020/4/1～2021/3/31）
Yamada Akemi　Ladies 2-Dan　（2020/4/1～2021/3/31）
Ido Chihiro　Ladies 2-Dan　（2020/4/1～2020/8/31）

The following player is moving out to Free-class in 2020.

Kamiya Hiroshi 8-Dan