Kazuko Konishi

Kazuko Konishi is a Japanese professional Go player at Kansai Ki-in, Osaka. She is known as one of the strongest female Go player in the Kansai region.[1][2]

Records

YearNotes[1][2]
1989 Obtained professional status
1997 Finalist at the Women's Kakusei (女流鶴聖, sponsored by JAL)
2001 Reached to 7-dan rank (In Japan, only few female players have reached to this rank).
2004 Reached to 8-dan rank. She is the 2nd female Kansai Ki-in player to reach this rank.[3]
2005 and 2006 Finalist at the Women's Champion title (女流最強位)
2006 Victory at the Kansai Ladies Go Tournament
2014 Finalist at the Women's Shusaku Cup (女流秀策杯[4])
2015 Finalist at the Women's Board Master title (女流棋聖)[5]

Awards from Kansai Ki-in

Name of awardNotes[1][2]
Rookie Award (新人賞) Received in 1995
Dogen Award (道玄賞[6]) Received 2 times
Yamano Award (山野賞[6]), Nagai Award (永井賞[6]), and the Special Award Received Once

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Kazuko Konishi at Sensei's Library
  2. 1 2 3 Kazuko Konishi at GoBase
  3. ↑ Mika Yoshida was the 1st.
  4. ↑ This tournament was named after Shusaku (本因坊秀策), one of the strongest Japanese player in the 19th century.
  5. ↑ Her opponent at the title match was Xie Yimin.
  6. 1 2 3 This is an award named after a famous player at Kansai Ki-in

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