"Shogi Youtuber" Shogo Orita enters the professional edition and begins the fifth game

"Shogi Youtuber" Shogo Orita Professional Edition 5th game starts November 25 13:28

Shogo Orita, who is a shogi amateur powerhouse and who is also active as “Shogi Youtuber”, started the 5th game on the 25th in the transfer exam to become a professional.

Shogo Orita (30), a native of Osaka, is a shogi amateur powerhouse who usually works as a shogi instructor, while also acting as a “Shogi Youtuber” that delivers his own video on the Internet.

Mr. Orita, who achieved a good result of “10 wins and 2 losses” in the game against professional athletes by August, met the eligibility requirements for the professional transfer examination on the 25th in Osaka. We faced the first game of the game.

In the first match, Hiroyuki Kuroda 4th stage (23) was the opponent, and Orita, who was behind, thought about a little and was walking forward.

Mr. Orita will face one stage each month until March next year, and will enter professional if he wins 3 out of 5 stations.

The current transfer examination system was established in 2006, and if Mr. Orita passes, it will be the second person who enters professional under this system.

What is Shogi transfer exam?

In order to become a professional shogi player, in principle, you need to enter the professional shogi training organization “Encouragement Association” of the Japan Shogi Federation, get the top grades in the game between the members, and advance to “four steps”.

However, the road to professionalism is narrow, and as a general rule, only two people can go up to four steps in half a year.

The transfer exam that Mr. Orita is challenging this time is a system that allows him to become a professional by a method different from the incentive, and is said to be “over 10 wins” and “win rate of over 60%” with the latest professional players. If you meet the requirements, you will be eligible for the exam.

This system was born as a special transfer test in 2005 by Shoji Segawa 6 Dan (49). At that time, a high win rate was achieved against professional athletes. Mr. Segawa appealed to the Japanese Shogi Federation to be a professional and passed a special examination to become a professional.

In response to this exception, the current transfer examination was institutionalized in the following year, after which Kenji Imaizumi (46) passed this examination and became a professional at the age of 41 in 2015.

Mr. Orita was also a member of the “Encouragement Society” from his teens and was aiming to become a professional, but was forced to withdraw from membership due to age restrictions, and after that he achieved good results against professionals as an amateur. I grabbed.