Omori Ran

Ōmori Ran 大森 らん, Katakana: オオモリ　ラン, b. 14 August 2002 in Hiroshima Prefecture) is a female Nihon Ki-in professional 2 dan.

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Name

Her surname 大森/Ōmori is written in Kanji (=“large forest”). But her given name らん/Ran is written in Hiragana instead of the Kanji 蘭 (= orchid). Some girls’ names are written in the rounded Hiragana script to give a ‘softer’ or ‘cuter’ impression.

Promotion history

• 1p 2019
• 2p 2023.

Go career

• 2019: Became a professional aged 16. Her teacher Yamamoto Kentaro 5p (now 6p) described her as a girl who always wore a smile when off the Go board.
• 2019: First professional game was also the first pro game of prodigy Nakamura Sumire, who is 6.5 years younger but qualified as a pro a few months before. Ōmori won that first game (W+R), but lost the next three they played.
• 2021: Competed in the 40th Female Honinbo. Lost in the first round to Hane Ayaka.
• 2022: Competed in the 33rd Female Meijin league. She lost all her games and was demoted.
• 2023: Winner of 3rd Fumakilla Go Women's Brains (d. Izawa Akino). She was especially happy to win a tournament in Hiroshima, her birthplace. Her teacher Yamamoto Kentaro 6p stood with her, and she presented him with a bottle of win at the prizegiving ceremony.

Links

• Ki-in
• Go4Go
• Go Ratings and games