Io Murota | |
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Native name | 室田伊緒 |
Born | May 24, 1989 |
Hometown | Kasugai, Aichi |
Career | |
Achieved professional status | October 1, 2005 | (aged 16)
Badge Number | W-35 |
Rank | Women's 2-dan |
Teacher | Masataka Sugimoto (8-dan) |
Websites | |
JSA profile page |
Io Murota (室田 伊緒, Murota Io, born May 24, 1989) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan.[1]
Murata's promotion history is as follows:[2]
Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks.
Murota is a former vice-president of the Professional Shogi Players Group[3][4]
, serving in that capacity from June 2015 until the end of May 2017.Murota married professional go player Yūta Iyama in 2012,[5] but the couple divorced in 2015.[6]