Kazuo Sugimoto | |
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Native name | 杉本和陽 |
Born | September 1, 1991 |
Hometown | Ōta, Tokyo |
Career | |
Achieved professional status | April 1, 2017 | (aged 25)
Badge Number | 310 |
Rank | 5-dan |
Teacher | Kunio Yonenaga (9-dan) |
Meijin class | C2 |
Ryūō class | 5 |
Websites | |
JSA profile page |
Kazuo Sugimoto (杉本 和陽, Sugimoto Kazuo, born September 1, 1991) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5-dan.
Sugimoto was born in Ōta, Tokyo on September 1, 1991.[1] He learned how to play shogi from watching his father (an amateur 2-dan) play.[2] As a sixth-grade student at Tamagawa Elementary School in 2003, Sugimoto won the 28th Elementary School Student Meijin Tournament , defeating fellow future professional Takuya Ishida in the semi-finals.[3][4]
Later in 2003, Sugimoto entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū as a student of shogi professional Kunio Yonenaga.[2] He was promoted to the rank of 3-dan in 2008 and obtained professional status and the rank of 4-dan in April 2017 after finishing second to Nishida in the 60th 3-dan League (October 2016 – March 2017) with a record of 12 wins and 6 losses.[2][5]
The promotion history for Sugimoto is as follows.[6]