Teruichi Aono (青野照市 ''Aono Teruichi,'' born January 1, 1953) is a 9-dan professional

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player from Yaizu, Shizuoka.

Shogi professional

Promotion history

The promotion history of Aono is as follows: * 4-kyū: 1968 * 1-dan: 1970 * 4-dan: April 1, 1974 * 5-dan: April 1, 1976 * 6-dan: April 1, 1979 * 7-dan: April 1, 1980 * 8-dan: April 1, 1983 * 9-dan: August 5, 1994

Titles and other championships

Aono challenged

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for the 37th Ōza title in 1989 for his only appearance in a major title match. He has, however, won four non-major shogi championships during his career: the 5th and 10th titles (1974 and 1979); the 5th (1978); and the 7th-8th (198485).

Awards and honors

Aono has received a number of awards for shogi. These include the "Best Winning Percentage" and "Best New Player" awards in 1975, the "Most Consecutive Games Won" award in 1978, and the Kōzō Masuda Award in 1997 and 2017. In 2011, his efforts in using shogi to promote cultural exchange between Japan and other countries were recognized by the

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and he was awarded the Foreign Minister's Commendation. for Fiscal Year 2011.

Annual Shogi Awards

*3rd Annual Awards (April 1975March 1976): Best New Player, Best Winning Percentage *6th Annual Awards (April 1978March 1979): Most Consecutive Games Won *25th Annual Awards (April 1997March 1998): Kōzō Masuda Award *45th Annual Awards (April 2017March 2018): Kōzō Masuda Award

Other awards

*1993, February:

Japan Foundation The was established in 1972 by an Act of the National Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an Independent Administrative Institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry o ...

20th Anniversary Commemorative Letter of Appreciation *1998: 25 Years Service Award (Awarded by the JSA in recognition of being an active professional for twenty-five years) *2000: Shogi Honor Fighting-spirit Award (Awarded by JSA in recognition of winning 600 official games as a professional) *2000, December:

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Award *2011, July: Japanese Foreign Minister's Commendation

JSA executive

Aono has been selected multiple times to be a member of the Japan Shogi Association's board of directors throughout his career, and was chosen to be JSA

senior managing director A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

in 2013. He served in that capacity until February 2017 when he and two other members of the board were dismissed as part of the JSA's response to the 29th Ryūō challenger controversy.

Shogi promotion efforts

Aono is active in promoting shogi outside Japan including visiting England in 1979 to teach the game to local players, and helping to arrange a visit of twenty Chinese elementary school students from Shanghai to visit an elementary school in Sendagaya, Tokyo in 2015 as part of an international exchange program involving shogi.

9-square shogi

Aono created a new shogi variant ９マス将棋 ''kyū-masu shōgi'' "9-square shogi" published in 2016 that is useful for teaching the shogi. It uses a 3x3 board and begins with several different staculturalrt positions in which each player has between 2 and 3 pieces that may or may not be in hand. Promotion is restricted to the last rank on each side. All other shogi rules apply. The game can be thought as a set of

tsumeshogi or tsume (詰め) is the Japanese term for a shogi miniature problem in which the goal is to checkmate the opponent's king. Tsume problems usually present a situation that might occur in a shogi game (although unrealistic artistic tsume shogi exi ...

(詰将棋 ''tsumeshōgi'' "checkmate") and brinkmate (必死 ''hisshi'') problems.

Bibliography

Aono has written a number of

pedagogical Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and Developmental psychology, psychological development of le ...

materials that have been translated into English including two books and journal articles as well as numerous Japanese-only materials. * *

References

External links

* ShogiHub
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