Otake Hideo

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Otake Hideo's Nihon Ki-in photo

Japanese: 大竹 英雄
Chinese: Dàzhú Yīngxióng
Korean:

Otake Hideo (大竹 英雄 Ōtake Hideo, born 12 May 1942) became a pupil of Kitani Minoru in 1951, made professional shodan in 1956 and 9-dan in 1970. Has won many titles, including the Meijin, Judan, Oza, Gosei and the Fujitsu Cup.

He holds the title of Honorary Gosei for winning the Gosei title 5 years in succession. He is the author of Opening Theory Made Easy and numerous other books in Japanese.

Nishimura Keiji is his pupil.

He visited Europe several times for both teaching tours and opening games of top-matches. The first to be played in Europe was his Honinbo match with Takemiya Masaki, opening in Paris, May 1988. This game featured on front page of the 0-issue of GO MOON, which appeared two days later during the Amsterdam International tournament. Summer 1988 he taught at the EGC in Hamburg.

Go World magazine has an extraordinary number of commented Otake games. If you have the PDF versions of the magazines from Kiseido Digital, you can print them out. If you want a complete collection, here is the list (magazine number before the colon, list of pages after the colon):

  2: 23-24
  3: 10-19
  5: 16-27
  6:  5-13
  7: 14-15
  9: 31-33
 10: 12-21
 11: 13-34, 39
 12: 37-39
 13: 27-32
 16: 5-11, 17-30
 17: 6-11, 26
 19: 32-36
 20: 17-37
 22:  6-27, 29-41
 23:  8-25
 24: 35-65
 25: 26-37
 26: 12-21
 29: 15-25
 30:  6-35, 58
 34: 12-30, 32-45
 35: 23-37
 39: 17-40, 54-62
 41: 34-43
 44: 48-55
 47: 38-47
 50:  7-13, 30-31
 54: 37-64
 59:  7-13, 39-41
 60: 16-19, 30-33, 36-45, 62-64
 61:  6-7
 62: 39-63
 67: 28-30
 69: 20-28, 40-44
 70: 13-28, 37
 71: 43-46
 73: 45-51
 77: 50

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