is a Japanese

professional shogi player A professional shogi player (将棋棋士 ''shōgi kishi'' or プロ棋士 ''puro kishi'' "professional player") is a shogi player who is usually a member of a professional guild of shogi players. There are two categories of professional playe ...

ranked 5- dan.

Early life and apprenticeship

Ida was born in

Kyoto Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...

, Japan on December 6, 1996. He became interested in shogi after seeing a column about it in a newspaper. Ida entered the

Japan Shogi Association The , or JSA, is the primary organizing body for professional shogi in Japan. The JSA sets the professional calendar, negotiates sponsorship and media promotion deals, helps organize tournaments and title matches, publishes shogi-related materia ...

's apprentice school in September 2009 under the guidance of shogi professional

Kenji Kobayashi is a Japanese retired professional shogi player who achieved the rank of 9- dan. He is also a former director of the Japanese Shogi Association. Early life and apprenticeship Kobayashi was born in Takamatsu, Kagawa on March 31, 1957. He entered ...

. Ida was promoted to the rank of apprentice professional 3-dan in April 2017 and obtained full professional status and the rank of 4-dan after tying for first place in the 68th 3-dan League (October 2020March 2021) with a record of 13 wins and 5 losses.

Shogi professional

Promotion history

The promotion history for Ida is as follows. *6-

kyū is a Japanese language, Japanese term used in modern martial arts as well as in Japanese tea ceremony, tea ceremony, ikebana, flower arranging, Go (game), Go, shogi, academic tests and other similar activities to designate various grades, leve ...

: September 2010 *3-dan: April 2017 *4-dan: April 1, 2021 *5-dan: November 6, 2024

References

External links

* ShogiHub
Professional Player Info · Ida, Akihiro
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