Sota Fujii 7th Dan "Ki Seisen" If you win, the first title and the youngest record update July 9 6:45
Shogi Sota Fujii's 7th Dan will be in Tokyo on the 9th, at the third station of the 5th game of the “Seiki Battle”. If Fujii Nandan wins, he will win his first title with three consecutive victories and set the youngest record for the first time in 30 years.
Sota Fujii 7th Dan (17) won the title in the fifth game of the first game of the game, the "Seiki Battle", with Aki Watanabe, who has the title, (36), winning two straight games so far. I am hanging.
The third station will be held in Tokyo on the 9th, and if Fujii Nandan wins, he will win the title of "Shogi" with three consecutive victories and win the first title.
Nanadan Fujii, who visited the venue on the 8th before the game, said, “I want to come back as I have done, and I just want to point firmly next time.”
Fujii Nandan is currently "17 years and 11 months", and if he wins the title, he will be the youngest record of title acquisition, set by Nobuyuki Yashiki 9dan (48) in 1990, "18 years and 6 months", for 30 years. It will be updated for the first time.
The game will be played from 9 am, and it is expected that the win or loss will be decided on the night of 9th.
What is the strength of Fujii Nandan?
Sota Fujii 7th Dan has been winning this year with a win rate of more than 90%, and is showing the ability to grow the top shogi players.
Fujii Nandan has achieved an annual win rate of 80% for the third consecutive year until last year, which is the highest record ever among the Japanese Shogi League.
Even this year, we have lost only 14 wins and 1 loss, and only once, and the winning rate is over 90%.
Fujii Nandan has been unable to play for about 50 days since early April due to the spread of the new coronavirus, but at the conference after that, he said, ``Because the game is available, you have to face your own shogi. I was able to do it,” and revealed that he was spending this period positively.
Since the game reopened on the 2nd of last month, in a crowded schedule, Tengo Sato, who has won the title of "master" for the third term, and active title holder Takuya Nagase, two consecutive championships We decided to participate in two title battles, "Ki Seisen" and "Through".
Among them, in the fifth game of the “Ki Seisen” that started on the 8th of last month, Aki Watanabe, who has the largest number of titles at the moment, has won two games so far. In the first station, in the final stage of the fierce battle, Watanabe triple crown of 16 consecutive hands was received with accurate reading and it won, and in the second station, the key point of defense is to use "gold" to attack in the middle stage. He showed bold moves and told Watanabe Triple Crown who had lost consecutive games, saying, "Because there is a difference, I have to point to a better shogi."
In addition, in the 7th match of the "thorough battle" that started on the 1st of this month, I experienced the two-day game with eight hours in possession for the first time, but in the first game I was able to compete against Kimura One He showed a bold attack and won a good victory, making a good start.
Always motivated by the title
Sota Fujii, 7th Dan, who entered the professional school in the second year of junior high school, has professed his motivation for the title and has been working hard to achieve it.
Fujii Nandan wrote a dream of "rubing a master" in a collection of books when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, and in September 2016 when he was a second grader in junior high school, he decided to join the professional career at the youngest age of 14 , "I want to improve my ability so that I can reach the position where the title can be aimed at," he already showed his motivation for the title.
In an interview in September 2017, just one year after deciding to become a professional, "I think that as long as I'm a professional chess player, I have to aim for a title such as Ryuo or a master," he told the interview after that. Even so, he expressed his motivation to aim for the title with his ability.
In order to win the Shogi title, you first have to overcome the qualifying, etc. for each title, and then become the challenger for the seventh and fifth games that are held once a year.
Fujii Nanadan steadily made efforts such as winning the ranking game which is the qualifying round for "Ryuo" for the fourth consecutive term, and in the fall of last year, he proceeded to the challenger decision league game of "Ou shogun" for the first time and lost to the final station. Although he didn't try to win the title, he won 4 wins and 2 losses against a powerful player.
And in this "Ki Holy Match", I won all 10 matches in the qualifying and the final tournament, decided my first title challenge last month, and at the interview after the match, "I think the title match is the best stage. I would like to point to shogi suitable for the best stage," he said with enthusiasm.