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Saki Kawamata
Kawamata at a human shogi [ja] event in November 2017
Saki Kawamata (川又 咲紀, Kawamata Saki, (née Satomi (里見)) born April 28, 1996) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 1-dan. Her older sister Kana is also a women's professional shogi player.
Early life
Kawamata (née Satomi (里見)) was born on April 28, 1996, in Izumo, Shimane.[1] She became interested in because her older brother and older sister both played the game.[2][3]
In August 2011 when she was a third-grade junior high school student, Satomi finished third in the 3rd Junior High School Student Girl's Meijin Tournament [ja].[4][5] The following year, she was accepted into Japan Shogi Association (JSA) Kansai Branch's training group system. She was awarded the provisional women's professional rank of 3-kyū in February 2016 under the sponsorship of shogi professional Keiji Mori [ja],[2] and obtained the rank of women's professional 2-kyū and full women's professional status two months later in April 2016.[6][7]
Kawamata and her sister Kana are the third pair of sisters to be awarded women's professional shogi status by the JSA.[9][7]
At the end of March 2022, the Japan Shogi Association announced that Kawamata had gotten married and would be no longer competing under her maiden name "Satomi".[10]
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.