Kyo Kagen
Keywords: People
Kyo Kagen (Japanese: 許 家元 Taiwanese (Wade-Giles: Hsu Chiayuan (Pinyin Xǔ Jiāyuán), b. 1997-12-24 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a 9-dan Taiwanese professional go player of the Nihon Kiin. He was the pupil of Takabayashi Takuji.
He is known as one of the Three Crows of the Reiwa Era 令和三羽烏, along with Ichiriki Ryo and Shibano Toramaru. He has won 6 titles.
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Rank Promotion
2013: 1d
2014: 2d (awarded for 30 wins as 1d)
2016: 3d
2018: 7d
2018: 8d (awarded for winning the 43rd Gosei)
2021: 9d
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Titles & Runners-up
Year | Title | Opponent | Result |
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2013 | 10th Nakano Cup | Hirata Tomoya | 1–0 |
2014 | 1st Globis Cup runner-up | Ichiriki Ryo | 0–1 |
2016 | 3rd Globis Cup runner-up | Li Qincheng | 0–1 |
2018 | 43rd Gosei | Iyama Yuta | 3–0 |
2019 | 44th Gosei runner-up | Hane Naoki | 2–3 |
2021 | 59th Judan | Shibano Toramaru | 3–2 |
2022 | 60th Judan | Yu Zhengqi | 3–0 |
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Fun Facts
- In 2013, Kyo played 18 official games (16 wins, 2 losses; 88.9% was the best record in the year), winning 10 games in a row from 2013-10-03 to 2013-12-30. He extended his winning streak to 13 consecutive wins on before losing to Oya Koichi. On 2014-03-27, his record was 14 wins, 1 loss (with a new winning streak of 11 consecutive wins), the best among Japanese pros at the time.
- In 2018, Kyo won the Gosei title after 5 years 4 month from becoming a professional 1 dan. This was a new record at the time for the shortest time taken from becoming a pro to winning a title tournament in Japan. (Later surpassed by Shibano Toramaru’s 5 years 1 month and Seki Kotaro’s 4 years 8 months.)
- Kyo is a good friend of one of his fellow Three Crows of the Reiwa Era, Ichiriki Ryo. Kyo was both research assistant and Chinese interpreter when Ichiriki won the 10th Ing Cup in Sept 2024. Ichiriki said that Kyo was “
a major driving force behind his victory.”
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Links
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Chinese Wikipedia
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Japanese Wikipedia
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Nihon Ki'in profile.
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Go4Go (as Hsu Chiayuan)
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Go Ratings and Games (as Hsu Chiayuan)
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Videos
- A news segment from Taiwanese TV about him winning Gosei and making a speed record for fastest title since becoming a pro.
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- A news segment from Taiwanese TV about him defending his Judan title in 2022.
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- 2022 Judan ceremony. Kyo speaks after 11:50 mark.
YouTube link
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