Shōgo Orita

Shōgo Orita (折田 翔吾, Orita Shōgo; October 28, 1989) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5-dan.^[1]

Shōgo Orita
Native name	折田翔吾
Born	(1989-10-28) October 28, 1989 (age 35)
Hometown	Osaka, Japan
Career
Achieved professional status	April 1, 2020(2020-04-01) (aged 30)
Badge Number	321
Rank	5-dan
Teacher	Masayuki Moriyasu [ja] (7-dan)
Meijin class	C2
Ryūō class	4
Websites
JSA profile page

Orita is the fourth amateur to obtain professional status without doing so via the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice professional school after he became the second player to pass the Professional Admission Test in February 2020.^[2][3]

Shogi professional

Promotion history

The promotion history for Orita is as follows.^[4]

• 4-dan: April 1, 2020
• 5-dan: October 6, 2022

You Tuber

Orita is also popular shogi YouTuber whose channel "Age Age Shogi Commentary" has, as of April 2020^[update], a little over 40 thousand subscribers and has had almost 23 million views since it was started in April 2016.^[2][5]