Miyamoto Naoki

(宮本直毅, 9 Dec 1934 – 26 Oct 2022) Kansai Ki-in professional, 9 dan in 1969. Miyamoto is most known to the western world for the books he has written. He is also the major commentator of the games of Shusaku as compiled by John Power in Invincible. He and Go Seigen are the first professional Go players known to play 9×9 Go and have game records.^[1]

Books by Miyamoto

• Test Your Go Strength
• The Breakthrough to Shodan ^[2]
• Pro-Pro Handicap Go ^{[3] [4]}

Miyamoto's profile at Gobase

Oyama Kunio, Ushinohama Satsuo and Matsumura Osamu are his pupils.

[1] One of his game records is reviewed with full annotation at 9 x 9 Go Review repository.

[2] He really seems to have written the original magazine articles it's composed of.

[3] Is this book by Miyamoto ? The description at Dave Carlton?'s site does not list Miyamoto as the author.

[4] The pro-pro handicap games organized by Miyamoto Naoki were published, with his commentary, in Go Review from May 1968 through August 1969 (and no doubt in some original Japanese publication). The pro-pro games published by Yutopian are a different set of games; and there is yet another set organized and commented, as I recall, by Ishida Yoshio, published as an Igo Club pamphlet. --FredK