Kaori Uekawa | |
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Native name | 上川香織 |
Born | July 30, 1974 |
Hometown | Shimokamagari, Hiroshima |
Career | |
Achieved professional status | April 1, 1999 | (aged 24)
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Rank | Women's 2-dan |
Teacher | Kazuharu Shoshi (7-dan) |
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LPSA profile page |
Kaori Uekawa (上川 香織, Uekawa Kaori, born July 30, 1974) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan. She is a member of the Ladies Professional Shogi-players' Association of Japan.[1]
Uekawa has been promoted as follows.[2][3]
Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks.
Uekawa married professional shogi player Ayumu Matsuo in April 2005, and Uekawa announced that she would be competing professionally under her married name.[5] On December 1, 2014, however, the Ladies Professional Shogi-players' Association of Japan announced that Uekawa would no longer be competing under the name "Matsuo".[6]
Active women's professional shogi players | |
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7-dan | |
6-dan | |
5-dan | |
4-dan | |
3-dan | |
2-dan | |
1-dan | |
1-kyū |
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2-kyū |
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Current Title Holders |
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Qualifying Lifetime Title Holders |
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Notes: 1. No symbol denotes JSA affiliation 2. An asterisk (*) denotes LPSA affiliation 3. A cross (†) denotes unaffiliated. 4, A two-barred cross (‡) denotes a JSA apprentice school player. |