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 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 (t ...
, 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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