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Ryo Ichiriki | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Ryo Ichiriki | ||||||||||||||
Kanji | 一力 遼 | ||||||||||||||
Born | Sendai, Japan | 10 June 1997||||||||||||||
Residence | Japan | ||||||||||||||
Turned pro | 2010 | ||||||||||||||
Rank | 9 dan | ||||||||||||||
Affiliation | Nihon Ki-in | ||||||||||||||
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Ryo Ichiriki (一力 遼, Ichiriki Ryō, born 10 June 1997) is a Japanese professional 9-dan Go player and journalist. As Go player, he was a pupil of So Kofuku. [1] Since 2020 he has also worked as a journalist for Kahoku Shimpo. [2]
Ichiriki was born in 1997 in Sendai into a wealthy family which has run media companies. [2] His grandfather, Kazuo Ichiriki, then CEO of Kahoku Shimpo and Tohoku Broadcasting Company, was a big fan of Go and taught him playing Go. Ichiriki took Go lessons from other local amateur players too. [3]
Ichiriki went to Nihon Ki-in Go School as professional candidate from his childhood, first visited the school from Sendai, later from Tokyo. He moved to Tokyo with his mother in 2008. [4]
In Summer 2010 he was qualified as Go professional. [5]
In 2014, he won the 1st Globis Cup, an international U-20 tournament held annually in Japan. [6] [7] [8] [9]
He won his first title in a top-seven Japanese Go competition at the 45th Gosei in 2020, defeating Naoki Hane 3–0 in the title match. [10] The same year, he won the 46th Tengen title in a 3–2 victory over Yuta Iyama to take his second major title. [11]
In 2021, he finished in the top four in the 9th Ing Cup, after being defeated by Xie Ke in the semifinal. [12]
Alongside his professional Go career, Ichiriki enrolled in the Waseda University School of Social Sciences in 2016. [13] He graduated in 2020 and began working at Kahoku Shimpo, his family's newspaper. He is a journalist at its Tokyo branch office. However, his main focus is still his career as a Go player. [2]