Ozeki Minoru

Ōzeki Minoru (大関稔) is a strong Japanese amateur, former insei.

Winner of the

• Amateur Honinbo in 2016, 2019, 2023 and 2024
• Amateur Meijin in 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023
• All Japan Students Go Oza Championship in 2015, 2016 and 2018

He finished third in the WAGC 2024 and second in 2025, missing the first place on tiebreak in both cases.

Games and ratings: https://www.goratings.org/en/players/2145.html

He plays as hikick on Fox.

Ozeki's beaten quite a few professionals:

• Cho Zuiketsu
• Fukuoka Kotaro
• Komatsu Hideki
• Kubo Hideo
• Han Zenki
• O Rissei
• Michael Redmond
• Hosaka Mayu
• Nakayama Kaoru