Ayumu Matsuo
Ayumu Matsuo | |
---|---|
![]() Matsuo in October 2018. | |
Native name | 松尾歩 |
Born | (1980-03-29) March 29, 1980 (age 44) |
Hometown | Nisshin, Aichi |
Career | |
Achieved professional status | April 1, 1999(1999-04-01) (aged 19) |
Badge Number | 231 |
Rank | 8 dan |
Teacher | Kazuharu Shoshi |
Tournaments won | 1 |
Meijin class | B2 |
Ryūō class | 1 |
Websites | |
JSA profile page |
Ayumu Matsuo (松尾 歩, Matsuo Ayumu, born March 29, 1980) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 8-dan.
Early life
Matsuo was born on March 29, 1980, in Nisshin, Aichi.[1] His father, a professor at Nagoya University, taught him how to play shogi when he was a third-grade elementary school student, and he soon began regularly traveling to the Tokyo Shogi Kaikan to participate in official Japan Shogi Association training groups. Matsuo's training group results allowed him to enter the JSA's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū in March 1994 as a protegee of shogi professional Kazuharu Shoshi. After only one year as an apprentice, Matsuo achieved promotion to the rank of 1-kyū.[2]
When he was a tenth-grade high school student, Matsuo asked his parents to allow him to leave school and move to Tokyo on his own so that he could fully focus on shogi. His parents were at first opposed to such a thing, but eventually changed their minds and gave their approval.[2] Matsuo was promoted to 1-dan in 1997, and quickly advanced to the rank of 3-dan within eight months. Matsuo won the 3-dan League in his first attempt and was officially awarded professional status and the rank of 4-dan on April 1, 1999.[2]
Shogi professional
Promotion history
The promotion history of Matsuo is as follows:[3]
- 6-kyū: March 1994
- 1-dan: 1997
- 4-dan: April 1, 1999
- 5-dan: April 1, 2002
- 6-dan: April 21, 2006
- 7-dan: September 27, 2007
- 8-dan: July 2, 2015
Titles and other championships
Matsuo has yet to appear in a major title match, but he did defeat Kazuki Kimura two games to none to win the 32nd Shinjin-Ō [ja] tournament—a tournament for shogi professionals age 26 and under who are also ranked 6-dan or lower and are not currently a major title holder—in 2001.[4][5]
Awards and honors
Matsuo received the Japan Shogi Association Annual Shogi Awards for "Best New Player" in 2001, the Kōzō Masuda Award in 2013 and "Special Game of the Year" in 2020.[6]
Year-end prize money and game fee ranking
Matsuo has finished in the "Top 10" of the JSA's year-end prize money and game fee rankings [ja] once: he finished 9th with JPY 19,850,000 in earnings in 2017.[7]
Personal life
Mastuo married women's professional shogi player and fellow Shoshi protegee Kaori Uekawa in April 2005.[8] However, the Ladies Professional Shogi-players' Association of Japan announced on December 1, 2014, that Uekawa would no longer be competing under the name "Matsuo".[9]
References
- ^ "Kishi Dētabēsu: Matsuo Ayumu" 棋士データベース: 松尾歩 [Professional Shogi Player Database: Ayumu Matsuo] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
- ^ a b c Geneki Purō Kishi DētaBukku 2016 [Ge] Ta-Wa Gyō 現役プロ棋士データブック2016 [下] た-わ行 [2016 Active Shogi Professional Databook [Last volume] Letter "Ta" to letter "Wa"] (in Japanese). MyNabi Publishing/Japan Shogi Association. 2015. p. 34. ASIN B019SSNKVA. Retrieved December 20, 2017 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Kishi Dētabēsu: Matsuo Ayumu Shōdan Rireki" 棋士データベース: 松尾歩 昇段履歴 [Professional Shogi Player Database: Ayumu Matsuo Promotion History] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
- ^ "Kishi Dētabēsu: Matsuo Ayumu Yūshō Rireki" 棋士データベース: 松尾歩 優勝履歴 [Professional Shogi Player Database: Ayumu Matsuo Championship History] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
- ^ "Shinjin-Ō-sen" 新人王戦 [Shinjin Ō tournament] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
- ^ "Kishi Dētabēsu: Matsuo Ayumu Shōgi Taishō" 棋士データベース: 松尾歩 将棋大賞 [Professional Shogi Player Database: Ayumu Matsuo Annual Shogi Awards] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
- ^ "Nisenjūnananen Kakutoku Shōkin・Taikyokuryō Besuto Jū" 2017年獲得賞金・対局料ベスト10 [2017 Prize Money/Game Fees Top 10] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. February 6, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ^ "Matsuo Ayumu Godan to Uekawa Kaori Joryū Shodan, Kekkon" 松尾歩五段と上川香織女流初段, 結婚 [Ayumu Matsuo 5d and Kaori Uekawa women's professional 1d announce marriage] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. April 2005. Archived from the original on August 31, 2005. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
- ^ "Oshirase (Nisenjūyonnen Jūnigatsu Tsuitachi" お知らせ (2014.12.1) [Announcement (2014.12.1)] (in Japanese). The Ladies Professional Shogi-player's Association of Japan. December 1, 2014. Archived from the original on January 11, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
External links
- ShogiHub: Professional Player Info · Matsuo, Ayumu
- v
- t
- e
- Takashi Abe
- Sōta Fujii
- Takeshi Fujii
- Kōichi Fukaura
- Bungo Fukusaki
- Masataka Gōda
- Yoshiharu Habu
- Akihito Hirose
- Keita Inoue
- Kazuki Kimura
- Toshiaki Kubo
- Tadahisa Maruyama
- Yoshikazu Minami
- Hiroyuki Miura
- Taku Morishita
- Toshiyuki Moriuchi
- Takuya Nagase
- Osamu Nakamura
- Hisashi Namekata
- Amahiko Satō
- Yasumitsu Satō
- Manabu Senzaki
- Akira Shima
- Daisuke Suzuki
- Michio Takahashi
- Kōji Tanigawa
- Eisaku Tomioka
- Masayuki Toyoshima
- Yasuaki Tsukada
- Kenji Waki
- Akira Watanabe
- Nobuyuki Yashiki
- Chikara Akutsu
- Kōzō Arimori
- Shōta Chida
- Mamoru Hatakeyama
- Naruyuki Hatakeyama
- Ichirō Hiura
- Kazushiza Horiguchi
- Eiji Iijima
- Akira Inaba
- Tetsurō Itodani
- Hiroki Iizuka
- Masaki Izumi
- Hiroshi Kamiya
- Kenji Kanzaki
- Kensuke Kitahama
- Hiroshi Kobayashi (b. 1976)
- Yasuhiro Masuda
- Ayumu Matsuo
- Yasuaki Murayama
- Daisuke Nakagawa
- Isao Nakata
- Hiroshi Naganuma
- Taichi Nakamura
- Hirotaka Nozuki
- Hisashi Ogura
- Shintarō Saitō
- Keiichi Sanada
- Yūki Sasaki
- Shūji Satō
- Tatsuya Sugai
- Masataka Sugimoto
- Masahiko Urano
- Takayuki Yamasaki
- Kenjirō Abe
- Kōru Abe
- Takanori An'yōji
- Sakio Chiba
- Kōhei Funae
- Naoya Fujiwara
- Shingo Hirafuji
- Kentarō Ishii
- Takumi Itō
- Hirotaka Kajiura
- Daisuke Katagami
- Kiyokazu Katsumata
- Takeshi Kawakami
- Kōichi Kinoshita
- Tadao Kitajima
- Masakazu Kondō
- Seiya Kondō
- Yoshiyuki Kubota
- Yūji Masuda
- Yoshiyuki Matsumoto
- Atsushi Miyata
- Shūji Muranaka
- Tomohiro Murata
- Akira Nishio
- Takuma Oikawa
- Takahiro Ōhashi
- Tadashi Ōishi
- Hiroshi Okazaki
- Tatsuya Sanmaidō
- Daichi Sasaki
- Makoto Sasaki
- Kazutoshi Satō
- Shin'ya Satō
- Shingo Sawada
- Kazuharu Shoshi
- Taichi Takami
- Issei Takazaki
- Kōsuke Tamura
- Makoto Tobe
- Ryūma Tonari
- Takahiro Toyokawa
- Kazushi Watanabe
- Norihiro Yagura
- Wataru Yashiro
- Hiroaki Yokoyama
- Mirai Aoshima
- Wakamu Deguchi
- Shin'ichirō Hattori
- Kei Honda
- Takashi Ikenaga
- Naohiro Ishida
- Shingo Itō
- Kōta Kanai
- Yūsei Koga
- Reo Kurosawa
- Mitsunori Makino
- Akihiro Murata
- Yūya Nagaoka
- Ryōsuke Nakamura
- Kazuhiro Nishikawa
- Takehiro Ōhira
- Satoru Sakaguchi
- Shin'ichi Satō
- Shōji Segawa
- Ryō Shimamoto
- Hideyuki Takano
- Satoshi Takano
- Yūichi Tanaka
- Yūsuke Tōyama
- Hiromu Watanabe
- Masakazu Watanabe
- Shin'ya Yamamoto
- Akihiro Ida
- Mikio Kariyama
- Naoki Koyama
- Reo Koyama
- Kanta Masegi
- Kenta Miyajima
- Saito Morimoto
- Reo Okabe
- Yūya Saitō
- Yūjirō Takahashi
- Hiroki Taniai
- Kenshi Tokuda
- Hirotoshi Ueno
- Taiki Yamakawa
- Tomoki Yokoyama
- Sōta Fujii (Ryūō, Meijin, Ōi, Ōza, Kiō, Ōshō and Kisei)
- Takumi Itō (Eiō)
Awarded |
|
---|---|
Qualifying |
|