is a professional
Go player
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.
Biography
Shuzo Awaji became a professional
Go player when he was 19 years old. He was promoted to 9 dan after he challenged for the 1984
Honinbo
In the history of Go in Japan, the four Go houses were four major schools of Go instituted, supported, and controlled by the state, at the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate. (There were also many minor houses.) At roughly the same time shogi w ...
title. Despite challenging for all of the big seven titles in Japan (
Kisei,
Meijin
is one of the eight titles in Japanese professional shogi, and is the most prestigious title, along with Ryūō. The word ''meijin'' (名 ''mei'' "excellent, artful", 人 ''jin'' "person") refers to a highly skilled master of a certain field ( ...
, Honinbo,
Judan,
Tengen,
Oza and
Gosei), he has never won any of them.
Titles & runners-up
External links
Go School established by Shuzo Awaji
1949 births
Japanese Go players
Living people
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