Asami Ueno
Japanese Go player (born 2001)
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Kanji | 上野愛咲美 | ||||||||||||||
Born | (2001-10-26) 26 October 2001 (age 22) Nakano, Tokyo, Japan | ||||||||||||||
Teacher | Kazunari Fujisawa | ||||||||||||||
Rank | 5 dan | ||||||||||||||
Affiliation | Nihon Ki-in | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Asami Ueno (上野愛咲美, Ueno Asami), born 26 October 2001, is a Japanese professional Go player at Nihon Ki-in since 2016.
Risa Ueno, who became a professional Go player in April 2019, is her younger sister.[1]
Achievements
Year | Notes[2][3] |
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2018 | Defeated Xie Yimin and obtained the Women's Kisei title (女流棋聖). She became the youngest player to obtain this title. Due to this record, she was promoted to 2 dan and received the rookie award (棋道賞新人賞). |
2019 | Defeated Rina Fujisawa and defended the Women's Kisei title. She also defeated her again and obtained the Women's Honinbo (女流本因坊) title. In addition, she became the finalist of the Dragon Star tournament (竜星戦). This is a new record than any other female player could not accomplish. Due to this achievement, a press conference was held at the Japan National Press Club (JNPC). She became the first Go player and the youngest person to do so. |
References
External links
- Nihon Ki-in profile (in Japanese)
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- Shinichi Aoki
- Shuzo Awaji
- Shigeru Baba
- Cho Chikun
- Cho Son-jin
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- Naoki Hane
- Yasumasa Hane
- Hsu Chia-yuan
- Naoto Hikosaka
- Kunihisa Honda
- Ryo Ichiriki
- Atsushi Ida
- Yoshio Ishida
- Kunio Ishii
- Ko Iso
- Yuta Iyama
- Satoshi Kataoka
- Atsushi Kato
- Tetsuya Kiyonari
- Koichi Kobayashi
- Satoru Kobayashi
- Hideki Komatsu
- Rin Kono
- Norio Kudo
- Tomoyasu Mimura
- Goro Miyazawa
- Tomochika Mizokami
- Michihiro Morita
- Daisuke Murakawa
- Shinya Nakamura
- Ō Rissei
- Masaki Ogata
- Hideo Otake
- Michael Redmond
- Rin Kaiho
- Toramaru Shibano
- Ryu Shikun
- Kim Shushun
- Shinji Takao
- Masaki Takemiya
- Wang Ming-wan
- Kimio Yamada
- Hiroshi Yamashiro
- Keigo Yamashita
- Norimoto Yoda
- So Yokoku
- Shigeaki Yokota
- Satoshi Yuki
- Kaori Chinen
- Chiaki Mukai
- Yumiko Okada
- Yukari Yoshihara
- Kaori Aoba
- Cătălin Țăranu
- Asami Ueno
- Antti Törmänen
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