Kisei (棋聖) is an honorary title and Go competition. The title, meaning Go Sage in Japanese, was a traditional honorary appellation given to a handful...

Kisei (棋聖) is one of the eight major titles in Japanese professional shogi. The word Kisei means an excellent player of shogi or go and has been translated...

The 35th Kisei began league play on 3 June 2010 and concluded with Cho U defending his title in six games over challenger Iyama Yuta on 11 March 2011....

previous works which Kisei said feature highly detailed pages that make reading difficult and "cheerful bubbly" female protagonists. Kisei further praised...

The Women's Kisei (女流棋聖戦, Joryū Kisei-sen) is a Japanese Go competition. The Women's Kisei is sponsored by NTT DoCoMo, and uses a hayago format, of 30...

Japanese Nihon Ki-in. Cho is the first player to hold the top three titles—Kisei, Meijin, and Honinbo—simultaneously which he did for three years in a row...

"flagpole war". For over a decade, the flagpole was the tallest in the world. In 2010, the flagpole became the second-tallest flagpole in the world at the time...

tournaments include the Kisei, Meijin, Honinbo, Judan, Tengen, Gosei, and the Oza. There are also separate Honinbo, Meijin, and Kisei titles for women. (*):...

his first Honinbo title in 2010. A student of Yasuro Kikuchi, Yamashita turned professional in 1993. He won the 19th Kisei 2 dan division in 1994. Yamashita...

Yuta Iyama Kisei, Honinbo, Meijin (井山 裕太, Iyama Yūta, born 24 May 1989) is a Japanese professional Go player. In April 2016, he became the first player...