Ryo Ichiriki

Ryo Ichiriki (一力遼, Ichiriki Ryō; born 10 June 1997) is a Japanese professional 9-dan Go player. As Go player, he was a pupil of So Kofuku.^[1] Since 2020 he has also worked as a journalist for Kahoku Shimpo.^[2]

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Early life

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]

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Go player

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]

In 2024, he won the Ing Cup with a 3-0 in the final against Xie Ke. This marked the first major international title for a Japanese player in more than 20 years.

Titles

International:

Ing Cup 2024
Globis Cup 2014 (under-20 tournament)

Major domestic titles:

Kisei 2022–2024
Meijin 2024
Honinbo 2023–2024
Tengen 2020, 2023–2024
Gosei 2020

Other domestic tournaments won:

Wakagoi Cup 2013, 2016
Shinjin-O 2014
Ryusei 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020
Agon Kiriyama Cup 2018, 2023, 2024
NHK Cup 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024
Okage Cup 2020
Teikei Cup Shunei 2023

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Journalist

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]

Early life

Go player

Titles

Journalist

References

External links

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