Shogi Fujita Sota 7th Dan "Aiming to challenge the title of Ken-san"

Shogi Fujita Sota 7 Dan "Aiming to challenge the pile of titles" and resolution January 4 15:33

In response to the interview with NHK, Shogi Fujita's 7th Dan looked back on last year, self-evaluated as "about 70 points", and said, "I would like to work hard to get a lab and approach the title challenge" Of his ambition.

Sota Fujii seventh dan (17), a second-year high school student, has won the championship last year in the “Asahi Cup Shogi Open Battle” and is the first in a league match to decide the challenger of one of the eight major titles, King Shosen. Despite being unable to become a player, he achieved a good record of 4 wins and 2 losses against top players.

Fujii Nandan, who responded to the interview, recalled last year, "I think that it is a great harvest that I was able to enter the challenger decision league for the first time in the king's war and be able to play against the top shogi players repeatedly." He said, "I think there is a time allocation as an issue. I felt that there was still something missing for the title."

Also, when asked about the score for the past year, I thought that I could not leave a big thing as a result, but I got a lot of experience that led to growth, so I thought that it was about 70 points. Was.

On the other hand, as for high school life, "While there are places where time is limited by going to school, it is important to touch something different from shogi, so there is a positive impact overall. I think. "

After that, after graduating from high school next year, he said, "I don't expect to go to college at this time. The four years from the age of 18 are very important times to grow as a shogi player. In the meantime, I want to concentrate on shogi and work hard to become stronger. "

On the other hand, regarding the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, which he was also selected as a torch relay runner, he said, `` In any competition, the younger generation's success will stimulate me, so I will use it as an energy to strengthen myself. I want to go. "

And I took out the colored paper that said "Ken" as the goal of this thing, and said, "I could not achieve the result of the title challenge in 2019, so I realized that it was necessary to improve my skills, I chose the word "ken". "

After that, `` In 2019, there were many scenes where I felt a difference from the top chess players, so in 2020 I will work hard to reduce the difference as much as possible and work hard to approach the title challenge I want to do that. "

Battle for title challenge

Fujii Shichidan will take on the challenge of aiming for the title.

Of the eight major titles, in the "Kingdom Championship", we have advanced to the league match to win the qualifier and decide the challenger, and in the "God Holy Battle", we are approaching one more win to the final tournament to decide the challenger.

According to the Japan Shogi Federation, the youngest record of title acquisition is "18 years and 6 months", and if Fujii Nandan, who is 18 years old in July, becomes a challenger in the title game this year, This record will be updated.

In addition, in the standings where we missed the promotion last year, we have so far won this season this year with 7 wins and 0 losses, standing alone in the “C class 1 set”.

Only two out of 36 people can be promoted to "B class 2", which is the next higher class.

Remarkable activity last year

Three years ago, Sota Fujii, who set a record for the most consecutive streak of 29 consecutive victories in a row, has been remarkable for the past year.

In January, he won 18 consecutive victories in the "ranking match", which determines the rank of a chess player, and was the most-successful record ever since his debut.

In February, he defeated Akira Watanabe and other top chess players in the “Asahi Cup Shogi Open Battle” and won the championship following the previous year.

In one of the eight major titles, "King Shosen", he advanced for the first time to a seven-player brute force league match to determine the challenger, and approached his place with only one more win until his first title challenge, but Hirose was the last station in November We lost to Akito and missed the challenge.

Fujii Nandan, who has a lot of fans, has made many official goods so far, and in March it became a hot topic that the first swing doll called "Bobble Head" was released in the shogi world.