Shigeru Nakamura (renju player)

This article is about the Renju player. For the karate instructor, see Shigeru Nakamura (karate instructor).

Shigeru Nakamura (中村 茂, Nakamura Shigeru; August 22, 1959) is a Japanese renju player.^[1] He won Renju World Championships in 1989^[2] and 1991,^[3] and Renju Team World Championships in 2012.^[4] Up to 2020, he has been the Japan's Meijin title holder for 30 years.^[5][6] In 2019, Nakamura was awarded the 7th Lifetime Meijin title by the Japanese Renju Federation.^[7] Up to 2021, Nakamura has won the All Japan Renju Championship 8 times, and the Kanto Renju Emperor Tournament 14 times.^[8] In 1999, Nakamura played a "match of two titans" against the Estonian world champion Ando Meritee. The match ended in a victory for Meritee with the score 3.5 - 2.5.^[9]