was a professional Go

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. He is well known in the Western go world for his book ''Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go''.

Biography

Kageyama was born in

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. In 1948, he won the biggest amateur Go tournament in Japan, the All-Amateur Honinbo. The year after that, he passed the pro exam. For two years straight, Kageyama was runner up for the

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. First, against

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, then Hoshino Toshi. His style was a very calm one with deep calculations, similar to what

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would use later on.Preface from his book ''Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go'' The greatest accomplishment of his life, in his own opinion, was beating

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in the Prime Minister Cup semi-finals. At the time, Rin was the

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, the top player in Japan. Kageyama gave a commentary on this game in his book "Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go", where he wrote

Promotion record

Runners-up

Awards

*Takamatsu-no-miya Prize once (1967)

Bibliography

*''Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go'' *''Kage's Secret Chronicles of Handicap Go''

References

1926 births 1990 deaths Japanese Go players Go (game) writers {{Japan-Go-bio-stub