Aya Fujita

Aya Fujita (藤田 綾, Fujita Aya, born March 24, 1987) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan. She holds the record for being the youngest person at age 11 years 6 months to have ever been awarded women's professional status by the Japan Shogi Association.

Aya Fujita
Fujita in 2014
Native name藤田 綾
Born (1987-03-24) March 24, 1987
HometownŌta, Tokyo
NationalityJapanese
Career
Achieved professional statusOctober 1, 1998(1998-10-01) (aged 11)
Badge NumberW-23
RankWomen's 2-dan
TeacherKazuyoshi Nishimura (9-dan)
Websites
JSA profile page

Early life

Fujita was born on March 24, 1987, in Ōta, Tokyo.[1] She learned how to play shogi from her father as a young girl, but started to become really serious about the game as a second-grade elementary school student.[2] Her father was fairly strict so she was not allowed to watch much television as a child, with the exception being when her family watched the recorded games from the NHK Cup TV Shogi Tournament together weekly. Most of her shogi studying involved solving tsume shogi problems and playing over professional game scores found in Japan Shogi Association (JSA) yearbooks and magazines, but occasionally she would go to play practice games at the shogi club located in the association's Tokyo head office.[2]

Fujita entered the JSA's Women's Professional Apprentice League as a student of shogi professional Kazuyoshi Nishimura in April 1997 and finished second in the league's Class B division for the April – September 1997 season with a record of 14 wins and 4 losses to earn promotion to the Class A division.[3] Fujita finished her first season in Class A (October 1997 – March 1998) with a record of 7 wins and 9 losses,[4] but obtained women's professional status and promotion to the rank of women's professional 2-kyū after finishing first with a record of 12 wins a 2 losses in the league's Class A division for the April – September 1998 season. Fujita was 11 years 6 months old when she was promoted which made her the youngest person to ever be awarded women's professional status.[2][5][lower-alpha 1]

Promotion history

Fujita has been promoted as follows:[6]

  • 1998, October 1: 2-kyū
  • 2000, April 1: 1-kyū
  • 2001, April 1: 1-dan
  • 2016, August 13: 2-dan

Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks.

Notes
  1. The Japan Shogi Association (JSA) has separate systems for "regular" professionals (or Seiki Kishi) and women's professionals (or Joryū Kishi). No women has yet to qualify for "regular" professional status, and the youngest male to do so is Sōta Fujii. Fujii, however, was 13 years 2 months old when he obtained professional status, which makes Fujita the youngest person (male or female) to be awarded any type of professional status by the JSA.
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References
  1. "Kishi Dētabēsu" 女流棋士データベース [Women's Professional Shogi Player Database] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved August 11, 2019.
  2. Kitano, Arata (April 16, 2019). "Shōgi Joryū Meijin Rīgu Hatsu Sanka Fujita Aya Joryū Nidan no Onegai ｢Itsuka Musume ni ...｣" 将棋女流名人リーグ初参加 藤田綾女流二段の願い　｢いつか娘に...｣ [First time participant in the Women's Meijin League Aya Fujita 2-dan's one wish is: "Someday I'd like to be able to say to my daughter that I've really done my best as a women's professional."]. Sports Hochi (in Japanese). Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  3. "Heisei Kyūnen Zenki Joryū Ikuseikai B Kurasu (Kyūnen Shigatsu kara Kyūnen Kugatsu" 平成9年度前期 女流育成会 Bクラス (9年4月 - 9年9月) [1997 (1st half) Women's Professional Apprentice League (April 1997 to September 1997)] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. 1997. Archived from the original on February 4, 1998. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  4. "Heisei Kyūnen Kōki Joryū Ikuseikai A Kurasu (Kyūnen Jūgatsu kara Jūnen Sangatsu" 平成9年度後期 女流育成会 Aクラス (9年10月 - 10年3月) [1997 (2nd half) Women's Professional Apprentice League (October 1997 to March 1998)] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. 1997. Archived from the original on July 7, 1998. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  5. "Heisei Jūnen Zenki Joryū Ikuseikai A Kurasu (Jūnen Shigatsu kara Jūnen Kugatsu" 平成10年度前期 女流育成会 Aクラス (10年4月 - 10年9月) [1998 (1st half) Women's Professional Apprentice League (April 1998 to September 1998)] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. 1998. Archived from the original on December 6, 1998. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  6. "Joryū Kishi Dētabēsu: Fujita Aya Shōdan Rireki" 女流棋士データベース: 藤田綾 昇段履歴 [Women's Professional Shogi Player Database: Aya Fujita Promotion History] (in Japanese). Japan Shogi Association. Retrieved August 15, 2019.


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