Hirotaka Kajiura | |
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Native name | 梶浦宏孝 |
Born | July 6, 1995 |
Hometown | Shinjuku |
Career | |
Achieved professional status | April 1, 2015 | (aged 19)
Badge Number | 301 |
Rank | 7- dan |
Teacher | Daisuke Suzuki (9-dan) |
Meijin class | C2 |
Ryūō class | 3 |
Websites | |
JSA profile page |
Hirotaka Kajiura (梶浦 宏孝, Kajiura Hirotaka, born July 6, 1995) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 7- dan.
Kajiura was born in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo, Japan on July 6, 1995. [1] He learned how to play shogi from his father when he was about five years old, and eventually entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6- kyū under the tutelage of shogi professional Daisuke Suzuki in 2008. [2] [3] He was promoted to the rank of 3-dan in 2012 and then obtained full professional status and the rank of 4-dan after finishing in second place in the 56th 3-dan League with a record of 13 wins and 5 losses. [2] [4]
The promotion history for Kajiura is as follows. [5]