Chizu Kobayashi

Chizu Kobayashi is a Japanese professional Go player at Nihon Ki-in.Chizu Kobayashi at GoBaseChizu Kobayashi at Sensei's Library She has several professional Go players in her relatives. Her brother is the president of Nihon Ki-in.
Records
YearNotes1966Semi-finalist at the All Japan Female Amateur Go Championship (:ja:全日本女流アマチュア囲碁選手権大会) 1972Obtained professional status1976 & 1977Received female MVP (棋道賞女流賞)1986Published a Go book with Tomoko Ogawa (『女流プロにチャレンジ 実力アマ血涙十戦譜-プロ・アマ読み筋くらべ』)1989, 1993 & 1997Obtained the female Kakusei (女流鶴聖, sponsored by JAL)1997Published a Go comic book by NHK (『コミックでおぼえる囲碁』)2000Obtained 300 career wins2007Elected to the cultural exchange ambassador by the government 2011Elected to the Matsue sightseeing ambassadorJune 2010 - June 2012 & June 2016 - June 2018Served as the director of Nihon Ki-in2016Promoted to 6 dan
Go promotion activities
She was sent to Europe and the United States for the promotion of Go. Due to this activity, she has several students from Europe. Some of them eventually obtained professional status at Nihon Ki-in.

Family
Satoru Kobayashi is the strongest player in her family. He has obtained many domestic titles/awards and published many books. In 2016, he obtained 1100 career wins. He is the president of Nihon Ki-in since 2019.
References

Other websites
Official website
Personal website 

category:1954 births
Category:Japanese Go players
category:Sportswomen
category:Living people