Tetsuya Fujimori | |
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Native name | 藤森哲也 |
Born | May 9, 1987 |
Hometown | Ōta, Tokyo |
Career | |
Achieved professional status | October 1, 2011 | (aged 24)
Badge Number | 285 |
Rank | 5-dan |
Teacher | Yasuaki Tsukada (9-dan) |
Meijin class | C2 |
Ryūō class | 5 |
Websites | |
JSA profile page | |
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Tetsuya Fujimori (藤森 哲也, Fujimori Tetsuya, born May 9, 1987) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5-dan.
Fujimori was born in Ōta, Tokyo on May 9, 1987.[1] He learned shogi from his mother Natsuko, who is a retired women's shogi professional,[2] at an early age and eventually was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū under the tutelage of shogi professional Yasuaki Tsukada in 1999.[3]
Fujimori was promoted to the rank of apprentice professional 3-dan in 2007, and full professional status and the rank of 4-dan in 2011 after finishing the 49th 3-dan League (April 2011 – September 2011) in second place with a record of 12 wins and 6 losses.[3][4]
Fujimori finished runner-up in the Shinjin-ŌTakuya Nagase 2 games to 1 in October 2012,[5][6] and then 44th Shinjin-Ō match to Ryūma Tonari by the same score in October of the following year.[7]
tournament twice. He lost the 43rd Shinjin-Ō match toThe promotion history for Fujimori is as follows:[8]
Fujimori's and his mother are the only mother–son pair to become professional shogi players. His father is also a strong amateur shogi player.[2]