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Female Go Players
This is an article about the history of female Go players in Asia and Europe. Social background Female Go players are viewed to be a Minority group, minority. This is due to these reasons: * There are many male players but only few female players. ** In Japan, there are no female winners at games without gender rules. Asami Ueno was the first female player who managed to be a finalist. ** In China, there was no female 9-dan before Rui Naiwei. ** Most players and winners at World championships are male. * Not all female players are fairly paid. Joanne Missingham is known for her protests to this issue. Comparison with female shogi players In Japan, Go players are always compared with shogi players. This is because newspapers like ''The Asahi Shimbun'' treat them equal. But there is a big difference among female players. Female Go players usually belong to the same organization with others. But this does not happen for shogi. Female shogi players belong to the Ladies Professional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Koszegi
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Feng Yun (Go Player)
Feng Yun ( zh, c=丰云, p=Fēng Yún; born October 2, 1966) is a professional Go player. She is the second woman after Rui Naiwei to ever attain the level of 9-dan professional. Biography Feng Yun was born in Chong Qing, China. She started learning Go in Henan province when she was nine years old. She began her professional career in 1979 at the age of 12. In 1982 she was selected for the Chinese National Go Team where she trained for 18 years. In 1997, Feng Yun reached the top rank of professional Go players and ascended to 9-dan professional. She was the second woman in the world ever (after Rui Naiwei) to reach 9 dan. She has lived in New Jersey, U.S., with her family since 2000. The Feng Yun Go School, with four locations in New Jersey, has produced many strong players. Her book''The Best Play'' analyzes two amateur games played on the internet. Professional accomplishments *Feng Yun was a finalist in the first four Bohae Cups, winning on the second occasion (1995), bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choi Jeong (Go Player)
Choi Jeong (born 7 October 1996), or Choi Jung, is a South Korean professional Go player. A student of Yoo Chang-hyuk, Choi Jeong became a professional Go player in 2010. Her first tournament championship was the Female Myungin in 2012, a title which she held for five years up to end of the tournament in 2016. Beginning in December 2013, she was the number one woman in the Korea Baduk Association's official ranking, a position which she maintained for 128 consecutive months until August 2024. She has won seven women's international titles: four times in the Bingsheng Cup (2014, 2017, 2018, 2019) and three times in the Wu Qingyuan Cup The Wu Qingyuan Cup, also known as the Go Seigen Cup or Wu Qingyuan Cup World Women's Weiqi Tournament (), is an international women's Go tournament. It was created in 2018 and is held annually. The tournament is named after Wu Qingyuan (better k ... (2019, 2021, 2023). In December 2019, she became the first woman to reach the top 20 in the of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rina Fujisawa
Rina Fujisawa (藤沢 里菜 ''Fujisawa Rina'', born 18 September 1998) is a Japanese professional Go player Player may refer to: Role or adjective * Player (game), a participant in a game or sport ** Gamer, a player in video and tabletop games ** Athlete, a player in sports ** Player character, a character in a video game or role playing game who i .... Biography Fujisawa is the daughter of Kazunari Fujisawa, an 8-dan professional Go player. She is also the granddaughter of the late Honorary Kisei, Hideyuki Fujisawa. She became a professional player in 2010 at the age of 11 years and 6 months, making her the youngest player in Japan to become pro; it was announced on 5 January 2019 that this record would be broken by Sumire Nakamura on 1 April 2019. Achievements In 2014, she was the winner of the 1st Aizu Central Hospital Cup. The victory made her the youngest female title holder in Japan at 15 years and 9 months. Later that year, she won the Female Honinbo title. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukari Yoshihara
née is a Japanese Go professional. Biography Yukari Umezawa was born in Tokyo in 1973, and graduated from Keio University in 1996. She first played Go at the age of 6 and she became a professional Go player in 1996. She then attained the rank of 5-dan in 2002 at the age of 29, and was married in the same year. Umezawa supervised the production of ''Hikaru no Go'', a manga about Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. In 2002 she was starring in her own videogame ''Umesawa Yukari no Igo Seminar'' (梅沢由香里の囲碁セミナー) on Xbox - a Go simulator. She also became a consultant for the anime version of ''Hikaru no Go'' and hosted Go educational programs on NHK. Umezawa's sensei was Masao Kato Masao Kato Honorary Go titles, Honorary Oza (加藤 正夫, ''Katō Masao'', March 15, 1947 – December 30, 2004), also known as Kato Kensei (加藤剱正 ''Katō Kensei''), was a Japanese professional go (board game), go Go players, player. A .... U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaori Chinen
is a professional Go player. Biography Kaori Chinen became a professional in 1993. She was promoted to 3 dan four years later in 1997. She married fellow professional go player Yo Kagen in 1997. She holds the female record for longest defense of a title, keeping the Women's Kisei for 6 straight years. . Titles & runners-up Notes External links (in Japanese) GoBase Biography 1974 births [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiaki Mukai
is a Japanese physician and JAXA astronaut. She was the first Japanese woman in space, the first Japanese citizen to have two spaceflights, and the first Asian woman in space. Both were Space Shuttle missions; her first was STS-65 aboard Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' in July 1994, which was a Spacelab mission. Her second spaceflight was STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' in 1998. In total she has spent 23 days in space. Mukai was selected to be an astronaut by Japanese national space agency NASDA (now called JAXA) in 1985. Prior to this, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Keio University, the oldest university in Japan. In 2015, she became Vice President of the Tokyo University of Science. In addition, she became JAXA Technical Counselor. Early life and education Chiaki Mukai was born in Tatebayashi, Gunma Prefecture. She graduated from Keio Girls Senior High School in Tokyo in 1971. She received her doctorate in medicine, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Japan Student Go Federation
The All Japan Student Go Federation () is a Japanese student Go organization for holding university Go championships. They have branches in each region ( Kanto, Kansai, Kyushu, Tohoku etc.). For similar organizations, there is the American Collegiate Go Association in the United States. Differences with other organizations In Japan, most Go tournaments are operated by Nihon Ki-in or Kansai Ki-in. All Japan Student Go Federation and their branches are focused for university-based tournaments. They are not under direct control but have close relationship with them. Tournaments They are holding various tournaments with corporate sponsors. World Students Go Oza Championship This is a tournament to determine the student world champion since 2003.Oza (王座) means King or Throne in Japanese. Representative players from each region (including Taiwan, Europe, Oceania etc.) will compete. The expected games in 2020 have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak. All Japan University G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Yimin
Xie Yimin (; born on 16 November 1989) is a Taiwanese-born professional Go player in Japan. She holds the titles of Honorary Female Honinbo and Honorary Female Meijin, and, as of 2016, holds three major female titles in Japan: Female Meijin, Female Kisei and Female Honinbo. Biography Xie started playing Go at the age of five at the Go school that her older brother was attending. At age seven, she competed in a children's group tournament held in South Korea as the fifth member of the Taipei team, and won three out of three matches. After winning the Kaiho National Children's Go Cup at age eight, Cheng Mingchi introduced her to Kou Mousei, her future teacher. Xie became an insei at the Nihon Ki-in in 2002. Xie became a professional Go player in 2004. By becoming a professional at age 14 years and 4 months, she set the record for the youngest female professional player at the time. Also, she was the fourth female player to become a professional through the main league rath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nihon Ki-in
The Nihon Ki-in (), also known as the Japan Go Association, is the main organizational body for Go in Japan, overseeing Japan's professional system and issuing diplomas for amateur dan rankings. It is based in Tokyo. The other major Go association in Japan is Kansai Ki-in. Its innovations include the Oteai system of promotion, time limits in professional games, and the introduction of issuing diplomas to strong amateur players, to affirm their ranks. History The Nihon Ki-in was established in July 1924. The first president of the Nihon Ki-in was Makino Nobuaki, a great Go patron himself, with Okura Kishichiro serving as vice president. The vast majority of pros at the time joined the fledgling organization, excepting the Inoue faction in Osaka and Nozawa Chikucho. A brief splinter group called Kiseisha was created soon after the Nihon Ki-in was formed, but most of the players involved had returned to the Nihon Ki-in within a couple of years. Then in 1950, its western branch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
