Kazuko Konishi

Kazuko Konishi is a Japanese professional Go player at Kansai Ki-in, Osaka. She is known as one of the strongest female Go player in the Kansai region.Kazuko Konishi at Sensei's LibraryKazuko Konishi at GoBase
Records
YearNotes1989Obtained professional status1997Finalist at the Women's Kakusei (女流鶴聖, sponsored by JAL)2001Reached to 7-dan rank (In Japan, only few female players have reached to this rank).2004Reached to 8-dan rank. She is the 2nd female Kansai Ki-in player to reach this rank.Mika Yoshida was the 1st. 2005 and 2006Finalist at the Women's Champion title (女流最強位)2006Victory at the Kansai Ladies Go Tournament2014Finalist at the Women's Shusaku Cup (女流秀策杯This tournament was named after Shusaku (本因坊秀策), one of the strongest Japanese player in the 19th century.)2015Finalist at the Women's Board Master title (女流棋聖)Her opponent at the title match was Xie Yimin.

Awards from Kansai Ki-in
Name of awardNotesRookie Award (新人賞)Received in 1995Dogen Award (道玄賞This is an award named after a famous player at Kansai Ki-in)Received 2 timesYamano Award (山野賞), Nagai Award (永井賞), and the Special AwardReceived Once

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Other websites
 Official profile 

category:1972 births
Category:Japanese Go players
category:Sportspeople from Osaka
category:Living people