Kazuki Kimura

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kazuki Kimura
Occupation	Shogi Player
Date Of Birth	Jun 23, 1973(1973-06-23)
Age	51
Birth City	YotsUnited Kingdomaidō
Horoscope	Gemini

Kazuki Kimura Biography

Kazuki Kimura is one of the most popular and richest Shogi Player who was born on June 23, 1973 in YotsUnited Kingdomaidō, ****. Kimura was born in Yotsukaido, Chiba Prefecture on June 23rd 1973. He was taught how to play Shogi at the house of a friend while in kindergarten and then began attending an shogi group in the area when the second grade was over. school pupil.

Kimura has won a number of the Japan Shogi Association Annual Shogi Awards throughout his career. He was awarded his “”Best New Player” award from 1997 to 1998 and”Best Player Award” for 1998-1999 “Best Winning Percentage” award for 1998-1999 “Best Winning Percentage”, “Most Games Won” and “Most games Played” awards for 2000-2001 as well as The “Fighting-spirit” award for 2008-2009 as well as”Special Award,” for the year 2019 “Special Award” for 2019.

At beginning, Kimura progressed fairly quickly and was elevated to the grade of 3-dan at the end of September 1990 while the eleventh grade was his high school student. However, it took him more than six years before he could to attain professional status and attain the grade of 4dan on April.

Kazuki Kimura Net Worth

Kazuki Kimura is one of the richest Shogi Player from . According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kazuki Kimura 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kazuki Kimura (Mu Cun Yi Ji , Kimura Kazuki, born on June 23, 1973) is a Japanese professional shogi player being ranked 9-dan. He is currently the Oi champion. He is also the oldest player ever to take home a major title his first win.

Kimura first had a conversation with his mentor shogi professional Yuji Sase (ja) during two-piece handicap games. Kimura was soon taking lessons at the hands of Sase at his home and played training games with Hiroe Nakai who was one of Sase’s pupils. The year 1985 saw him made it into the semifinals in the 10th Elementary Student Meijin Tournament (ja) in sixth grade as an elementary school pupil, and the following year he was accepted into the Japanese Shogi Association’s apprentice schools under the direction of Sase.

In June 2019, Kimura defeated Yoshiharu Habu to earn the right to challenge Masayuki Toyoshima for the 60th Ōi title. In the title match against Toyoshima, Kimura lost the first two games before coming back to tie the score at two wins apiece. Toyoshima won Game 5 and needed just one more win to defend his title; Kimura, however, won the last two games to win the match 4 games to 3. The victory not only gave Kimura his first major title, but it also made him the oldest first time winner of a major title at the age of 46 years and 3 months, breaking the record of 37 years and 6 months set by Michio Ariyoshi in 1973.

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Kazuki Ranked on the list of most popular Shogi Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in. Kazuki Kimura celebrates birthday on June 23 of every year.