Yanagihara Saki

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Yanagihara Saki’s Nihon Ki-In photo

Yanagihara Saki (Kanji: 柳原 咲輝; [Katakana: ヤナギハラ サキ, b. 6th October 2010 in Toyko) is a female [Nihon Ki-in] professional 1 dan, who began playing professional games in February 2023 (formally qualifying 1 April 2023, aged 12 years and 6 months).

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Yanagihara learnt Go at three years old from her parents. She became a student of Kansai Ki-in professional Hon Seisen at his Tokyo school, the Hon Dojo. She took second place in the U-12 section of the World Youth Goe Championship in 2022, losing to then-amateur Kim Ha-yoon, aged 10. Previously, in the semifinal, she beat Yin Chengzhi 1p, [ext] called “the future of Chinese Go”.

Yanagihara attempted to qualify as a professional in 2022, but lost the deciding game in the Women’s Special Professional Qualification League to Cho Koharu. She re-encountered Koharu in October of the following year, in the preliminaries of the Female Honinbo, and evened their record.

She replaced Cho Koharu as the youngest female professional of the Nihon Ki-in, by 11 months. She played her first professional game on the 27 Feb 2023 against Takemiya Masaki (!) and lost. Yanagihara has also scored 2–0 against Cho Koharu’s older sister Cho Kosumi.

On 1 April 2024, Yanagihara was herself replaced by Takayama Nonoka as the youngest professional, by two months. On 28 Sep 2024, these two youngest pros played their only game against each other, with Yanagihara winning (W+7.5). They are good friends off the board. They are both pupils of the Hon Dojo.

[ext] Yanigahara solves 1,500 Go puzzles per day. She says:

I want to do my best so that I can face Nakamura Sumire 3p in the world championships.

Career record

  • 2023: 13 games, 5–8
  • 2024: 19 games, 11–8

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Yanagihara Saki last edited by 2603:9001:6e0b:2694 on December 24, 2024 - 06:57
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