[Welcome to Sensei's Library!]

StartingPoints
ReferenceSection
About


Paths
CentralLine

Referenced by
HikaruNoGoGames
LinkCollection
NamesInGo
Kisei
WhyDonTWeOpenAtTe...
BlackShouldResign...
Oteai
StrangeProOpening3
TengenStatistics
55Point

Homepages
HuOfKGS

 

Yamashita Keigo
Path: CentralLine   · Prev: TakemiyaMasaki   · Next: YasuiSenchi
    Keywords: People

Yamashita Keigo up to now is by far the most successful student from the go school run by Kikuchi Yasuro. His spectacular style has renewed the interest in the game of go. A short resume:-

  • Born 1978-09-06 in Asahikawa City
  • 1-dan in 1993
  • 7-dan in 2000
  • 1998: 23rd Shinjin-O (King of The New Stars Title)
  • 1999: 14th NEC Shun'ei (New Stars Hayago), 24th Shinjin-O
  • 2000: 30th Shin'ei (New Stars Title), the 25th Gosei and the 25th Shinjin-O
  • 2001: 26th Shinjin-O
  • 2003: [1] 27th Kisei winner - this entails a jump promotion to 9 dan under the new rules.

As a 7 dan early in 2001 Yamashita Keigo won the prestigious 38th Shusai Prize. It recognised not only the fact that he won the Gosei title at the age of 21, but that his go style is a breath of fresh air. In the same year he also won the Journalists' Club prize and the Kido Prize, amongst other awards.

A small collection of his games can be found at [ext] My Friday Night Files.

Gobase page [ext] http://gobase.org/information/players/?pp=Yamashita%20Keigo .


Win/loss record:

  • 2001 50-19
  • 2000 59-18
  • 1999 55-12
  • 1998 60-15
  • 1997 60-9
  • 1996 39-12
  • 1995 35-1-10
  • 1994 22-11
  • 1993 21-7

[1] DJ: AFAIK, the current Kisei-sen is the 2002: being a mammoth tournament, the final is actually played at the beginning of the year after the "nominal" one.

Charles It's a fair point. I don't think we yet have an established convention here on SL, whether you give the year in which the tournament started its preliminaries, or the year in which the title match finished.

DaveSigaty: It is neither. It is the 27th Kisei with no reference to any year. See the [ext] sponsor's page.

Charles There is a convention followed by the Igo Nenkan reference section, of giving first the term number, and then the year, as determined by the final; so for example the 1st Kisei title is dated as 1977. This is followed by GoGod, too.



Path: CentralLine   · Prev: TakemiyaMasaki   · Next: YasuiSenchi
This is a copy of the living page "Yamashita Keigo" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2003 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.