Official News Release

　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

Promotion and retirement of Shogi players as of 2020/4/1 is as follows.

■ Promotion

Hattori Shinichiro to 4-Dan      66th Shoreikai 3-Dan league
Taniai Hiroki    to 4-Dan      66th Shoreikai 3-Dan league
Orita Shogo        to 4-Dan      Pass the professional transfer examination
Katsumata Kiyokazu to 7-Dan      Free class promotion criteria

Kosaka Noboru      to 8-Dan      Retired player promotion criteria
Oshima Eiji        to 8-Dan      Retired player promotion criteria

Shimizu Ichiyo     to Ladies 7-Dan      Superb achievement
Satomi Kana        to Ladies 6-Dan      Superb achievement

Mizumachi Miyu     to Ladies 1-Dan      Annual win ratio 0.5 or higher (８wins or more)
Fujii Nana         to Ladies 1-Dan      Annual win ratio 0.5 or higher (８wins or more)
Wakita Nanako      to Ladies 1-Dan      Annual win ratio 0.5 or higher (８wins or more)
Nodasawa Ayano     to Ladies 1-Dan      Retired Ladies player promotion criteria 

Ishizuka Tooru     Coaching 6-Dan      Coaching criteria
Tsukioka Daisuke   Coaching 4-Dan      Same as above
Honda Tsutomu      Coaching 2-Dan      Same as above
Kawashima Makoto   Coaching 2-Dan      Same as above

  ■ Retirement

Kiriyama Kiyosumi  9-Dan      Free class criteria
Tosa Koji          8-Dan      Same as above
Ito Hirofumi       7-Dan      Same as above
Fujikura Yuki      5-Dan      Same as above

Takamure Sachiko   Ladies 4-Dan      Ladies player retirement criteria
Sanada Ayako       Ladies 2-Dan      Same as above
Nodasawa Ayano     Ladies 1-kyu      Same as above


        
    

Satomi Kana Ladies 4-crown received "Shimane Prefectural Honor Award" at Shimane Prefectural Office on 2020/3/19.
Her achievement of Ladies 6-crown and 11 consecutive titles of Ladies Meijin-sen, both of which were the first time of Shogi history, were recognized for her award.
She was the second person who received the award.

Awards Ceremony

Commemorative photo: Maruyama Tatsuya (Governor of Shimane), Satomi Kana 4-crown, Her parents (left to right)

Satomi Kana 4-crown met with Governor Maruyama

7th game of 69th Osaka Osho title 7-match, where Hirose Akihito 8-Dan challenged Watanabe Akira Osho, was held at Sado Green Hotel Kiraku in Sado, Niigata during March 25 to 26. Watahabe Osho beat Hirose 8-Dan with 153 moves and won 4 games.

Watanabe Osho defended the 7-match game title with 4 wins and 3 losses, and won his 4th time Osho title.

You can check the details on The Mainichi Newspapers or Sports Nippon Newspaper issued March 27th.

Related Pages

The Mainichi News Site
【Shogi Players Data and Performance Comparison】Watanabe Akira Osho VS Hirose Akihito 8-Dan

4th game of 45th Kio 5-match, where Honda Kei 5-Dan challenged Watanabe Akira Kio, was held at Togo Jinja in Shibuya, Tokyo on March 17th. Watanabe Kio beat Honda 5-Dan with 96 moves and won 3 games.

Watanabe kio defended the title with 3-1 and won Kio title 8 times in a row.

Related Articles

【Shogi Player Profile & Performance Comparison】Watanabe Akira Kio VS Honda Kei 5-Dan
About systems and features of Kio title match

Comments from the players

See also

折田翔アマ、棋士編入試験受験へ 【棋士編入試験規定と対局日程】 (only in Japanese)

The fourth game of the 69th Osaka Osho Cup Osho Tournament seven-game match, where Hirose Akihito 8-Dan is challenging Watanabe Akira Osho, will be held in Hotel Kagetsuen in Hakone, Kanagawa prefecture on February 20 and 21.

Watanabe won the first and third games, while Hirose won the second game.
The result of the fourth game has become very important — will Watanabe “check the king” to defend his Osho title, or will Hirose get closer to grabbing the title?

This is the defending match for Watanabe, who came back as Osho for the third time last year.
For Hirose, this is his first challenge to the Osho title.

Watanabe and Hirose have played 29 official games so far, with Watanabe winning 17-12.

The seven-game match of the Osaka Osho Cup Osho Tournament will be broadcast live on The Mainichi, the Osho Tournament live reporting blog and the Japan Shogi Association’s broadcasting app for smartphones.

The games will also be broadcast live on Shogi Premium (*paid registration required).