Yukari Yoshihara

Yukari Yoshihara (吉原由香里Her former name is Yukari Umezawa (梅沢由香里)) is a Japanese professional Go player at Nihon Ki-in since 1996.Sensei's Library's page on Yukari UmezawaYukari Yoshihara Official Profile Her mentor is Masao Kato.
Records
YearNotes19858th place in the All Japan Women Amateur Championship.In Japan, there are many female professional players who have experienced/participated this tournament.19933rd place at the All Japan University Go Tournament.1994Victory at the All Japan Amateur Honinbo (本因坊) Tokyo Tournament (First female player to obtain this status). She also won at the International Amateur Pair Go Championship.19953rd place in the All Japan Women Amateur Championship. In the same year, she obtained professional status.1996Graduated from Keio University.1996, 1998, 2001-2004, 2015 and 2019Personality at NHK Go programs at the NHK Educational TV.2002Finalist at the Women's Champion Title (女流最強位)2004Obtained 200 career wins. She was also awarded from the Television Go Program Manufacturing Assembly (テレビ囲碁番組制作者会賞)This award was granted because she helped a TV animation about Go.2004 and 2007Received the Journalist Club Award2005Served as the director of the International Go Federation2007-2009Obtained the Women's Board Master (女流棋聖). At the title match in 2008, she defeated Chiaki Mukai.2010Victory at the Professional Pair Go Championship & Finalist at the Women's Honinbo (女流本因坊) challenger determination tournament.Only the winner of this tournament can challenge against the defending champion (title holder). She also worked for a Go class at Keio University.2011Finalist at the Women's Board Master title.Her final opponent in this match was Xie Yimin. In the next season (held in December 2011), she was the finalist of the Women's Board Master challenger determination tournament2016Finalist at the Women's Board Master title.

Japanese books
『あなたも夢中!レディース囲碁—なによりやさしくだれにでもわかる囲碁入門書の決定版 生活実用シリーズ』 (The best Go introduction book for everyone), published from NHK, 1999 (authored with Mayu Hosaka and Izumi Kobayashi). 
『梅沢由香里流すぐに打てる9路盤』(Start Go with a 99 board soon, Yukari Umezawa style), NHK Go Series, 2000.
『1から始める梅沢由香里の碁』(Yukari Umezawa's Go from first step), published from NHK, 2004.
Game software
She also authored some Go-related game software.
 梅沢由香里の対局囲碁 (PlayStation version in 1998, Windows version in 2001.)
 Yukari Umezawa Go Seminar, made for Xbox, 2002.
 :ja:梅沢由香里のやさしい囲碁, made for Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, 2008.
Notes

Other websites
 Yukari Umezawa's home page
 A webpage archive about Umezawa at Nihon Ki-in's website
 A Nipponia article about Umezawa
 Yukari Umezawa manga  at Media Arts Database 
 Yukari Yoshihara manga  at Media Arts Database 
 Yukai Umezawa anime at Media Arts Database 


Category:1973 births
Category:Go players from Tokyo
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Category:Keio University alumni