Official News Release

Nagase Takuya Eiou (27 years old) has been promoted to 8-Dan by winning the 3rd game of Ouza title mach of 5-game title match and becoming Ouza on October 1st.

Date of Promotion

Octorber 1st, 2019

Game

67th Ouza Title match 3rd game
(opponent: Saito Shintaro Ouza)

Reason of promotion

Won title twice

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67th Ouza title match was held at Hotel Okura Kobe in Kobe, Hyogo on October 1st, and the challenger Nagase Takuya Eiou won the game against Saito Shintaro Ouza with 161 moves.

Nagase Eiou won the Ouza title match with 3 games in a row and won Ouza title first time. At the same time he became 2-Crown champion.

関連記事

[Shogi Column] A Sparking Game: Reflecting 3rd game of Ouza 5-game title match
[Players data ・Game results comparison] Saito Shintaro Ouza VS Nagase Takuya Eiou

JSA udated the regulation of official professional games.
Please refer to the following link for the updated details Regulation (abstract).

　Yamaguchi Nikori (17 yrs old), who belonged to Tokai Kenshukai B2-class, submitted her application for Ladies Professional Player. She will become Ladies Professional Player 2-Kyu, belonging to Kansai Branch as of October 1st, 2019. Her Ladies Professional ID will be 68.

Name

Yamaguchi Nikori

Date of birth

September 17th, 2002 (17 years old)

Hometown

Gifu-shi, Gifu

Education

Student of Uguisudani High School

Master

Nakada Shodo 7-Dan

Enrollment in Kenshukai

February 2016

Favorite strategy

Static rook

Game history

55th High school Shogi Tournament Team Tournament winner

Hobby

Listening to music

Reason for starting shogi

Learned from her grandfather

Under the initiative of Ladies Professional Karolina Styczynska, a powerful working team has been formed, inviting multiple competent collaborators. We are restarting ShogiHub's past activity to publish translated English news, of which originals are released by the JSA. Those tasks had been done solely by the site owner until February 2017, and was discontinued due to work load issues.

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7th game of 60th Oui title match was held at Toshi Center Hotel in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo during 25-26th, September, and the challenger Kumura Kazuki 9-Dan won 4 out of 7 games against Toyoshima Masayuki Oui with 110 moves.

Kimura 9-Dan won his first title and became Oui.

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[New Record] Kimura Kazuki 9-Dan Won the first title at the oldest age
[7th Game Digest] Decisive Diagram: Reviewing the 7th game at the interview after the game
[Game Watching Report] 46 years old, his first long-desired title: New history and record by Kimura Kazuki 9-Dan. Oui Tournament 7th game watching report

Kimura Kazuki 9-Dan, won his first title to surpass the record of the oldest Shogi player wining a major title for the first time.  At the 7th game of the 60th Ōi tournament held in Toshi Center Hotel in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo on 25th and 26th of September 2019, the challenger Kimura 9-Dan defeated the 59th title holder Toyoshima Masayuki Ōi, with the win‐loss record of 4 - 3.
As the result of this match, Kimura Ōi won his first title at the age of 46 and 3 months, and broke the record of the oldest Shogi player winning the first major title.

Kimura Ōi, Career statistics (as of September 26th, 2019)

Total of 1019 games*, 647 Wins and 371 Losses, 0.636 winning percentage (*Including one impasse at a title tournament match）

27th Gingasen Tournament final game Toyoshima Masayuki Meijin vs Watanabe Akira 3-Crown was broadcasted and Toyosima Meijin won the game and title.

The final game will be broadcasted again on 1st October (Tue) at Igo-Shogi Channel.

◆27th Gingasen Tournament chart

（From Gingasen Page）

On September 17th, Japan Shogi Association accepted application into "Professional Admission Test" from Shogo Orita, an amateur player of shogi. Orita won a match played on August 30th, which makes his score against professional players 10 wins and 2 losses, fulfilling the criteria to take the "Professional Admission Test". According to the provision below, the exam matches will take place once every month from November. The exam date and place of the 3rd match (and if happens those of 4th & 5th) will be determined later by arranging schedules of Orita and the examiners.

【Provisions of Professional Admission Test, set by Japan Shogi Association】

Exam Dates

Starts two months after the application is accepted, one match a month

Exam Site

”Tokyo Shogi Hall” or “Kansai Shogi Hall” in principle

Qualification

・Amateur player or Ladies pro player wishing to become a pro, who currently has been winning 10 or more
matches in professional official tournaments during his/her best performance span, AND has a winning rate of 0.650 or more
・Player who has a referral from a regular member (shogi professional) with 4-Dan or higher

Exam Details

Series of 5 matches against professional players (Five examiners will be selected from the newest 4-Dan players by player numbers)

　　*Thinking time of 3 hours
　　*The matches shall be subject to the official match rules of Japan Shogi Association
　　*Piece toss to decide the first mover (Sente) for the 1st match, then alternate the player at every match
　　*Winning 3 out of 5 earns an eligibility to enroll into the Free Class of Junisen
　　*Applicant who passed the trial will be 4-Dan as of April 1st or October 1st, whichever comes earlier

【Profile of Orita Shogo】

・Home Town: Osaka
・Born on October 28th, 1989
・Master: Moriyasu Masayuki 7-Dan
・Enrolled in Shoreikai with 6-Kyu in 2004 (as Moriyasu's pupil), withdrawn as 3-Dan in 2016

【Examiners and Match Dates】

	Examiner	Exam Date (starts at 10AM)	Exam Site
1	Kuroda Takayuki 4-Dan	November 25th (Monday)	Kansai Shogi Hall
2	Deguchi Wakamu 4-Dan	December 23rd (Monday)	Kansai Shogi Hall
3	Yamamoto Hiroshi 4-Dan	Undecided
4	Honda Kei 4-Dan	Undecided
5	Ikenaga Takashi 4-Dan	Undecided