Miori Shimosaka
Japanese Go player
Miori Shimosaka (下坂美織) is a Japanese professional Go player at Nihon Ki-in.[1][2] She was born at Hokkaido Prefecture.
Records
change| Year | Notes[1][2] |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 5th place in the U12 championship (ja:少年少女囲碁大会[3]) |
| 1999 | Winner at the Hokkaido ladies championship (全道女流囲碁選手権, she is the youngest champion at this tournament). She was also qualified to the main tournament at the U12 championship.[3] |
| 2000 | Winner at the Hokkaido amateur championship (アミノアップ杯争奪全道アマ本因坊戦). She was also qualified to the main tournament of the Junior High School Championship.[3] |
| 2001 | Winner at the Hokkaido ladies championship. She was also qualified to the main tournament of the Junior High School Championship[3] and the All Japan Women's Amateur Championship.[4] |
| 2002 | Qualified to the main tournament of the Junior High School Championship.[3] |
| 2003 | Winner at the High School Championship[3] and the All Japan Women's Amateur Championship.[4] |
| 2004 | Winner at the High School Championship.[3] |
| 2005 | Finalist at the High School Championship.[3] |
| 2006 | Entered Waseda University and their Go club. She was also the finalist at the Female Student Go Tournament (ja:全日本女子学生本因坊決定戦, operated by the All Japan Student Go Federation) and 6th place at the All Japan Student's Best 10 (全日本学生囲碁十傑戦[5]). |
| 2007 | She contributed to the Waseda Team's victory at the All Japan University Go Championship (ja:全日本大学囲碁選手権). 7th place at the All Japan Women's Amateur Championship.[4] |
| 2008 | Finalist at the All Japan Women's Amateur Championship.[4] She was also 3rd place at the Female Student Go Tournament. |
| 2009 | Obtained professional status. She is the 1st high school champion[6] and 1st female player from Hokkaido[7] to obtain this status. She was also qualified to the main tournament of the Rookie Championship (新人王戦[8]). |
| 2010 | Assistant at NHK Cup Television Go Tournament.[9] |
| 2011 and 2012 | Qualified to the main tournament of the Women's Board Master's title (女流棋聖戦) |
| 2012 | Qualified to the main tournament of the Rookie Championship.[8] She also represented Japan at the World's Ladies Go Championship (兵聖杯世界女子囲碁選手権). |
| 2012-2014 | Personality at the NHK Cup Television Go Tournament.[9] |
Notes
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Miori Shimosaka at Sensei's Library
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Miori Shimosaka at Go Ratings
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Many Japanese professionals have experienced this tournament.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 In Japan, there are many female professional players who have experienced/participated this tournament.
- ↑ Sponsored by Asahi Shinbun.
- ↑ This is a rare case because most professionals obtain professional status before entering high school.
- ↑ Before her, there were many professional players from Hokkaido. For example there are Norimoto Yoda (Sachiko Hara's husband) and Koichi Kobayashi (Husband of Reiko Kobayashi and Father of Izumi Kobayashi).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 This tournament has an age restriction.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 This is a program at the NHK Educational Television.