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

Year	Notes^[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]

Name of award	Notes^[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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Kazuko Konishi at Sensei's Library
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Kazuko Konishi at GoBase
↑ Mika Yoshida was the 1st.
↑ This tournament was named after Shusaku (本因坊秀策), one of the strongest Japanese player in the 19th century.
↑ Her opponent at the title match was Xie Yimin.
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 ^6.2 This is an award named after a famous player at Kansai Ki-in