Japanese Chess Championship
The Japanese women's chess championship has been largely dominated by Naoko Takemoto (Naoko Takahashi before she married).
Winners
No. Year Men's Winner Women's Winner 1 1969 Yukio Miyasaka 2 1970 Yukio Miyasaka 3 1971 Yukio Miyasaka 5 1972 Yukio Miyasaka 6 1973 Gentaro Gonda 7 1974 Gentaro Gonda Miyoko Watai 8 1975 Kenji Hamada Emiko Nakagawa 9 1976 Gentaro Gonda Emiko Nakagawa 10 1977 Gentaro Gonda Miyoko Watai 11 1978 Gentaro Gonda Miyoko Watai 12 1979 Gentaro Gonda Naoko Takemoto 13 1980 Gentaro Gonda Naoko Takemoto 14 1981 Koobun Oda Naoko Takemoto 15 1982 Koobun Oda Naoko Takemoto 16 1983 Hiroyuki Nishimura Naoko Takemoto 17 1984 Hiroyuki Nishimura Naoko Takemoto 18 1985 Hiroyuki Nishimura Naoko Takemoto 19 1986 Gentaro Gonda
Paul M. KurodaNaoko Takemoto 20 1987 Jacques Pineau Naoko Takemoto 21 1988 Tomomichi Suzuki Naoko Takemoto 22 1989 Loren Schmidt Naoko Takemoto 23 1990 Gentaro Gonda Naoko Takemoto 24 1991 Joselito Sunga Naoko Takemoto 25 1992 Mats Andersson Naoko Takemoto 26 1993 Domingo Ramos Naoko Takemoto 27 1994 Jacques Pineau Naoko Takemoto 28 1995 Hiroyuki Nishimura not played 29 1996 Domingo Ramos
Hiroshi Takemoto
Tomohiko Matsuonot played 30 1997 Gentaro Gonda not played 31 1998 Gentaro Gonda not played 32 1999 Akira Watanabe not played 33 2000 Akira Watanabe not played 34 2001 Akira Watanabe Miyoko Watai
Kang Guen Guoko35 2002 Gentaro Gonda not played 36 2003 Simon Bibby Emiko Nakagawa 37 2004 Ryo Shiomi
Kiyotaka SakaiMelody Garcia 38 2005 Kiyotaka Sakai Haruko Tanaka 39 2006 Shinya Kojima Emiko Nakagawa 40 2007 Shinya Kojima
Masahiro BabaEmiko Nakagawa 41 2008 Shinsaku Uesugi
Shinya KojimaEmiko Nakagawa 42 2009 Shinya Kojima Narumi Uchida 43 2010 Sam Collins Narumi Uchida 44 2011 Ryosuke Nanjo
Shinya KojimaEkaterina Egorova 45 2012 Ryuji Nakamura
Masahiro BabaEpiphany Peters
Nami Uchida46 2013 Ryosuke Nanjo Nami Uchida 47 2014 Junta Ikeda Nami Uchida 48 2015 Ryosuke Nanjo Mikori Ishizuka 49 2016 Masahiro Baba No. Year Men's Winner Women's Winner
References
- Results from the Japanese Chess Federation (in Japanese)
- Short biography on Akira Wanatabe
- Chess in Japan
- On Shinya Kojima's 2006 and 2007 victory (in German)
- On the 2008 edition
- On the women's editions: 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 (in Japanese)
- On the men's editions: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (in Japanese)
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.