Latest Promotions / Year 2011

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Table of contents China Japan New professionals 2011 Korea New professionals 2011 Taiwan Promotion history Related content Links

China

See also: Chinese promotion system

• Piao Wenyao promoted 9 dan on 2011-02 (winner of the 15th LG Cup).
• Qiu Jun promoted 9 dan on 2011-08-14 (final of the 24th Fujitsu).

Japan

See also: Nihon Ki-in new promotion system, Kansai Ki-in oteai ends - new promotion rules

• Ishii Akane to 2 dan (November 2)
• Mine Yasuhiro to 3 dan (August 31)
• Inoue Naoki to 2 dan (June 1)
• Yo Seiki to 2 dan (March 18)
• Hatanaka Hoshinobu to 3 dan (March 2)
• Fujii Shuya to 7 dan (February 23)
• Shiraishi Kyoko to 4 dan (February 16)
• Takashima Takeshi to 3 dan (January 1)
• Uchida Shuhei to 7 dan (for entering the Meijin league)
• Kato Atsushi to 9 dan
• Ko Iso to 8 dan
• Ohashi Hirofumi to 5 dan
• Ueda Takashi to 4 dan ( http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/player/htm/ki000376.htm)
• Kumamoto Shusei to 2 dan
• Fujita Akihiko to 3 dan
• Okuda Aya to 3 dan
• Terayama Rei to 3 dan

Nihon Ki-in annual promotion according to prize-winning

• Hirata Tomoya to 2 dan
• Obuchi Kotaro to 2 dan
• Suzuki Shinji to 3 dan^[1]
• Ida Atsushi to 3 dan^[1]
• Ohashi Naruya to 4 dan^[1]
• Shida Tatsuya to 4 dan
• Uchida Shuhei to 5 dan^[1]
• Kawada Kohei to 5 dan
• Iwamaru Taira to 6 dan
• Suzuki Ayumi to 6 dan^[1]
• Mitani Tetsuya to 7 dan^[1]

[1] These players were already promoted in 2010.

New professionals 2011

Nihon Ki-in:

• Motoki Katsuya (本木　克弥) as the first placed insei, summer 2011

• Tsuneishi Takashi (常石隆志) ( link)
• Miyamoto Chiharu (宮本千春) ( link)
• Takahashi Masumi (高橋真澄) ( link)
• Kikkawa Hajime (吉川一) ( link)
• Son Makoto (孫喆) ( link)

• Ichiriki Ryo (一力　遼) as the first placed insei turned pro in September 2010 already ( link)

Kansai Ki-in:

• Okuma Yuto 大熊 悠人
• Takatsu Masaaki 高津 昌昭
• Sato Yuta 佐藤 優太
• Chujo Chihiro 中條 ちひろ
• O Keiko 王 景弘
• Ota Ryo 太田 亮
• Tobita Saki 飛田 早紀
• Taniguchi Toru 谷口 徹

Korea

See also: Korean promotion system

• KimDonghee promoted to 3 dan
• KimEunsun promoted to 4 dan
• KimKiYong promoted to 6 dan
• JinDongkyu promoted to 6 dan
• PakSeungHyeon promoted to 7 dan
• YiHeuiSeong promoted to 9 dan
• KoKeunTae promoted to 8 dan
• LeeSanghoon2 promoted to 8 dan
• Heo YeongHo promoted 9 dan
• Choi Kihoon promoted 4 dan
• Lee Chunkyu promoted 4 dan
• Kim Sunmi promoted 3 dan
• An Sungjoon promoted 3 dan
• An Hyungjoon promoted 3 dan
• Kim Miri promoted 2 dan

New professionals 2011

• 양우석 Yang Woo Seok, June 22 link
• 이동훈 Lee Dong Hoon, May 17 link
• 오정아 Oh Jeong A, March 6 link
• 최홍윤 Choi Honghyun, March 20 link
• 김채영 Kim Chea Young, April 28 link
• 박준석 Park Jun Seok, November 27 2010 link
• 최정 Choi Jeong, June 30 2010 link

• Cho Insun, September 20, promoted according to a new system that allows to accumulate points in the tournaments open to amateurs, Cho Insun reached the 100 point threshold by winning the first round of the Myeongin.

Taiwan

See also: Taiwanese professional promotion rules

• Su Shengfang 2 dan on 2011-08-26 (20 wins as 1 dan)
• Wang Xiangjie 2 dan on 2011-08-22 (20 wins as 1 dan)
• Ye Hongyuan 2 dan on 2011-08-16 (20 wins as 1 dan)
• Wang Yuanjun 4 dan on 2011-08-14 (50 wins as 3 dan)
• Lin Xiuping 4 dan on 2011-08-09 (50 wins as 3 dan)
• Lin Shuyang 7 dan on 2011-07-29 (100 wins as 6 dan)
• Lin Shixun promoted 1 dan in 2011-07-09 (professional status from 2012-01-01)
• Lin Jiehan promoted 1 dan in 2011-07-09 (professional status from 2012-01-01)
• Gao Yun promoted 1 dan in 2011-07-21 (professional status from 2012-01-01)
• He Chengwei promoted 1 dan in 2011-07-21 (professional status from 2012-01-01)
• Lin Yuxiang to 4 dan on 2011-01-04 (50 wins as 3 dan)
• Chen Shien to 9 dan on 2011-03-20 (120 wins as 8 dan)
• Xu Changzheng to 2 dan (20 wins as 1 dan)
• Zhang Zhehao to 4 dan on 2011-01-17 (50 wins as 3 dan)
• Hei Jiajia (alias Joanne Missingham) to 5 dan on 5 January 2011 (for second place in women world championship)

Promotion history

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Related content

• Professional promotion tournaments
• Oteai (the discontinued promotion tournaments of Nihon and Kansai Ki-in)

Links

For ease of maintenance in the future, it would be good to list the webpages where promotion information can be found.

• Nihon Ki-in
• Kansai Ki-in
• http://www.taiwango.org.tw/chesser.asp