Yo Seiki

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余 正麒 Taiwanese player (known as Yu Zhengqi [1] or Yu Chengch’i) born 1995-06-19, pupil of Cho Rosho 6 dan. He was promoted 1 dan of the Taiwan Qiyuan in 2006 and 2 dan 2008-11-23. In 2009-03 he became 1 dan in the Kansai Ki-in, 2 dan in 2011 and 3 dan in 2012-11-14. In 2013-08-29 he entered in the 69th Honinbo League (youngest player at 18, 2 months; previous record: Iyama Yuta at 20, 2 months), beating Han Zenki 8 dan, and was promoted to 7 dan. In 1967 Kato Masao entered in the Honinbo League as 4 dan at 20 and 5 months: this is another record of Yu’s.

Career record in Japan:

[1] See [ext] discussion on Life in 19x19.

Videos

  • A Taiwanese news segment on Yu being awarded MVP in a Kansai Kiin's ceremony in 2017. [ext] YouTube link
  • Couple videos from Asahi Newspaper after a decisive win to enter Meijin League in November 2020. One is a more general interview and in the other video Yu shows the move he thinks was the move of the game. [ext] YouTube link & [ext] YouTube link

Pictures

foto

yu zhengqi mlily 2023 (Image credit: 0)
yu zhengqi mlily 2023 (Image credit: Foxwq.com)

yu zhengqi xie ke mlily 2023 (Image credit: 2)
yu zhengqi xie ke mlily 2023 (Image credit: Foxwq.com)


Yo Seiki last edited by Jono64a on March 27, 2025 - 22:44
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