Sakata Eio

Sakata Eio (坂田 栄男, born February 15, 1920) is a 9 dan Japanese professional player who collected a record number of big titles from 1950 to 1975. His teacher was Masubuchi Tatsuko.

Sakata is called the "Inventor of Myoshu" in the book Go on Go .

Sakata Eio is author of many books in Japanese. His Sakata no Go series, aimed at dan players, is still in print after more than forty years, a modern classic. Amongst his books translated into English are Modern Joseki and Fuseki, The Middle Game of Go, Tesuji and Anti-Suji of Go and Killer of Go.

In 1964, Sakata became the first person to hold both the Meijin and the Honinbo titles simultaneously. During his professional career, Sakata won 64 title matches, a new record at that time. Only Cho Chikun has won more title matches, 71 titles as of 2007.

Sakata's pupils are Aragaki Takeshi, Sasaki Tadashi, Kato Akihiro, Kono Mitsuki, and Nakayama Kaoru.

Links

http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/age-summer-94/encounter.html

http://www.fqjr.qc.ca/go/sakata/sakata_a.html

http://www.gogameworld.com/article/gomyth.html

http://shinbo.free.fr/TheMagicOfGo/index.php?tmog=24