Aiming to become a professional shogi player, Kana Satomi's four crowns, who will take part in the "transfer test" of the Japan Shogi Association from August, met in Osaka City on the 6th and said, "I think it will be a tough battle, but I want to do my best." Told.
In May, Satomi Onna-ryu Shikan, who was qualified to take the "transfer exam" for professional shogi players, applied for the exam to the Japan Shogi Association in June.
On the 6th, before the transfer test started, I had a press conference at the Kansai Shogi Kaikan in Fukushima-ku, Osaka. I want to do it, "he said with enthusiasm.
Satomi Onna-ryu Shikan is from Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture, and is known as "Izumo's Inazuma" because of her aggressive style and the sharpness of the reading at the end of the game.
Since 2011, she has been a member of the "Encouragement Society" and became the first female player to become a third dan player. Therefore, I withdrew from the "Encouragement Party".
After that, she continued to play an active role, such as breaking the record for the number of female titles won, and this time, she qualified to take the exam and became a professional shogi player again.
She said, "When she was at the encouragement party, she was only thinking about becoming a professional shogi player, but now she is purely a fan of shogi, aiming to improve her skills, and with a strong person. I want to play a game. "
In her "transfer exam", after August, she will play a fifth match with a four-tiered shogi player, and if she wins three, the first female professional shogi player will be born.