Английская Википедия:Aya Imai
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Expand Japanese Шаблон:Infobox shogi professional Шаблон:Nihongo is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-dan. She is the first women's professional shogi player to come from Nagoya.
Early life and becoming a women's professional shogi player
Imai was born in Nagoya on October 25, 2001.[1] She learned how to play shogi from her father when she was five years old.[2][3] At first, she mainly played against her older brother and continued to improve to the point where she start attending a local shogi school.[4] As a second-grade elementary school student, she entered the Tokai branch of the Japan Shogi Association's training group system under the tutelage of shogi professional Masataka Sugimoto.[4] By June 2016, she had performed well enough in the training school system to qualify for women's professional status even though she was still a third-year junior high school student, but decided to enter the Шаблон:Abbr's professional apprentice school instead to try and obtain regular professional status.[2][4][5] At the end of November 2022, she decided to formally leave the apprentice school at the rank of 1-kyū because she did not feel she would be able to achieve promotion to the next rank of 1-dan in accordance with JSA apprentice school's rules which require that apprentice professionals achieve said rank within one year of turning 21 years old.[3][5] She decided to switch over to women's professional shogi, and formally requested to be allowed do so in January 2023.[5] The JSA accepted her request and awarded her the rank of women's professional 1-kyū since that rank she had achieved as an apprentice professional.[2][3][5]
Imai is the first women's professional from Nagoya.[3] Шаблон:Asof she is a third-year university student at Doshisha University.[2][4]
Promotion history
Imai's promotion history is as follows.[6]
- 1-kyū: February 1, 2023
- 1-dan: August 20, 2023
Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks.
References
Шаблон:Women's Professional Shogi Players
