Shinsaku Uesugi | |
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![]() Uesugi at the 2008 Chess Olympiad | |
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Born | Kyoto, Japan | April 17, 1991
Title | FIDE Master (2009) |
FIDE rating | 2300 (September 2013) |
Peak rating | 2332 (May 2010) |
Shinsaku Uesugi (上杉 晋作, Uesugi Shinsaku, born April 17, 1991 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese chess player who holds the title of FIDE master.[1] He won the 40th Japanese Chess Championship in May 2007 and became the youngest ever national champion (16 years, 18 days old). He also played for Japan at the 38th Chess Olympiad in November 2008 and became co-champion of the U.S. National High School Championship in April 2010.
Uesugi moved to the United States in March 2000. He graduated from Winston Churchill High School (Potomac, Maryland) in June 2010 and University of California, Berkeley in May 2014.
In November 2010, Shinsaku won the UC Berkeley Canasta tournament with Ted Sanders. As of February 2011, Shinsaku Uesugi is UC Berkeley's second highest rated Canasta player.[26]
Shinsaku also played for the UC Berkeley badminton team.[27]