is a professional
Go player
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. Yamashita adopted the name Honinbo Dowa after winning his first
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 in 2010.
Biography
A student of
Yasuro Kikuchi
was a Japanese amateur Go player.
Biography
Kikuchi founded the prestigious ''Ryokusei Academy'' in 1975, which has become one of the most prolific Go schools in Japan. Some of the most famous players to come out of the academy include Kikuyo A ...
, Yamashita turned professional in 1993. He won the
19th Kisei 2 dan division in 1994.
Yamashita reached the challenger finals of the
Tengen in 1999.
His first major title came in 2000 when he defeated Honorary Gosei
Koichi Kobayashi
is a Japanese Go player. He is one of the 'Six Supers' who championed Japanese Go in the last three decades of Japanese Go.
Biography
Koichi Kobayashi was born in Asahikawa, Japan. In 1965, he came to Tokyo to be a disciple of Minoru Kitani. ...
in the finals of the 25th
Gosei. At the time of his win, Yamashita was the second youngest player to win a major title. He also won the Shusai Prize for his play and broke the record for most games in a year with 77.
Yamashita defeated
O Rissei
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for the
Kisei in 2003, becoming the fourth youngest big-three (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 (t ...
,
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 ...
) winner at 24.
Promotion record
Career record
*1993: 21–7
*1999: 55–12
*2000: 58–17
*2001: 50–19
*2004: 39–32
*2005: 33–20
*2006: 44–24
*2007: 32–25
*2008: 27–24
*2009: 38–17
*2010: 40–23
*2011: 32–20
Titles and runners-up
References
External links
Nihon Ki-in profile(in Japanese)
Japanese Go players
People from Asahikawa
Sportspeople from Tokyo
1978 births
Living people
Asian Games medalists in go
Go players at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for Japan
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
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