After defending his title in straight sets, it's finally time for the Ryuo match! I'm witnessing a genius that may surpass AI, a once-in-400-years genius. We've dug deep into the childhood of the genius shogi player, Fujii Souta. ★ If you're interested, why not also read this book? ↓ "The Path of Fujii Souta: How a Boy from Aichi Became Eight Crowns" https://amzn.to/40iLzgg ★ Start by getting stronger with 3-move checkmates! "Recommended by Fujii Souta! Basic 3-move checkmates to become stronger at shogi" ↓ https://amzn.to/4esxwYX As a child, he learned the shogi symbols before he learned the kanji. Every time he lost, he would cry in front of the board. He was feared in the amateur shogi world as a "strong shorty," and became a professional at the youngest age in history, at 14 years and 2 months. He is such a train enthusiast that he said, "If I hadn't become a shogi player, I wanted to be a train driver." Now he has risen to the top of the shogi world, but in his childhood, he was childlike outside of shogi, and in some ways even more childlike in shogi. Even as a kindergartener, he was absorbed in solving difficult tsumeshogi problems, and while he beat older children, he would cry every time he lost, making the adults around him nervous. In this video, we will introduce the journey of a boy who loved shogi more than anyone and did not want to lose at shogi more than anyone, who set his goal of "beating a master" and entered the Shogi Association, the gateway to becoming a professional. [Correction] • [Fujii Souta] We are now witnessing a genius who surpasses AI. "Fujii Souta Story" Aspiring... Sugimoto Masataka, currently 8th dan → Sugimoto Masataka, currently 8th dan There are some places where tsumeshogi is written as "tsumeshogi". I will be careful in the sequel. I respectfully correct this. *We are working on a sequel. Please subscribe to our channel and check out the sequel. First, get stronger with 3-move tsume! "Three-move checkmate handbook" ↓ https://amzn.to/4htchcb Fujii Souta (born July 19, 2002) is a Japanese shogi player. He is a student of Sugimoto Shotaka 8-dan. His player number is 307. He is from Seto City, Aichi Prefecture. In 2016, he became the youngest player in history to be promoted to 4-dan (turned professional) at 14 years and 2 months old, and set a new record for the most consecutive official match wins (29 consecutive wins) without losing a single game. Since then, he has broken many records, including promotions except for 5-dan, general tournament wins, title challenges and wins, achievements from two to eight crowns, and Meijin titles. In addition, he has set numerous records, including the first ever monopoly on eight crowns, the first ever seven consecutive years with a winning rate of over 80% in a year (still ongoing), the most consecutive title matches since his first appearance 22 times, and the first ever annual Grand Slam of general tournaments. His 29 consecutive wins since his debut were widely covered by the media, and he began to attract attention from around this time. Fujii's success sparked a shogi boom, and his popularity, which has become a social phenomenon, has even been dubbed "Fujii Fever." Playing history before going professional In the summer of 2007, when he was 5 years old, he was taught shogi by his maternal grandparents. Fujii's grandmother taught the rules of go and shogi to her grandchildren, who were born to three daughters (his grandmother only knew the rules). Fujii quickly learned the rules of shogi, and played against his grandfather, who could play shogi, but by autumn his grandfather was no match for Fujii. In December of the same year, he enrolled in a shogi class in Seto City. When Fujii enrolled in the shogi class, the teacher gave him the nearly 500-page thick book "Koma Ochi Joseki" (Japan Shogi Association, ISBN 4819702092) by Kazuharu Tokoshi, but Fujii, who was not yet able to read or write, read it by symbols, and after a year he completely understood and memorized it. According to the head of the shogi class, the class is held three times a week for three hours, but when Fujii started attending the class, he requested four lessons a week, so there was a period when extra lessons were held for him. Training session period In March 2010, when he was in the first grade of elementary school, he joined the Tokai training session. At this training session, he met Masataka Sugimoto, the training session organizer who would later become his teacher, and when he was in the third grade of elementary school, Akihiro Takada also participated. In August 2011, when he was in the third grade of elementary school, he won the 10th National Elementary School Kurashiki Osho Tournament, lower grade division. In October of the same year, he won the lower grade division of the JT Shogi Japan Series Tokai Tournament. In January 2012, he played against Takumi Ito at the 9th Shogakukan Gakuenshi Cup National Elementary School Shogi Tournament. Looking back on his training days, he said, "I was able to compete with my peers and regularly receive instruction from professionals. In tournaments, I was able to do difficult post-game analysis, and I think I grew a lot there." In June 2012, he was promoted to B1 in the training session, and in September, when he was in the fourth grade of elementary school, he joined the Shogi Shogi Association (hereinafter "Shogi Association") (6th grade). At that time, he appeared on the FM radio program "Radio Thank You" in his hometown of Seto City, and said, "I want to surpass the Meijin." During his time in the Shogi Association, he traveled to the Kansai Shogi Association by Shinkansen and also participated in a study group held at Satoshi Inaba's house. When he was in the sixth grade of elementary school, he became the youngest person in history to become a first-dan player, and the youngest person in history to be promoted to a second-dan player. In addition, he won the Shogi Tsumego Solving Championship in March 2015 at the youngest age in history, and won five consecutive championships until 2019. After the regular meetings of the Shogi Association, he worked with Takada Akihiro and others on 10-second Shogi and Tsumego speed solving, but it is said that most of the Tsumego problems were created by Fujii. On October 18, 2015, when he was in the first year of junior high school, he became the youngest person in history (13 years and 2 months) to be promoted to Shogi Association 3rd Dan. The 58th Shogi Association 3rd Dan League in the second half of 2015 started on October 3, two weeks before the promotion was decided, so he was stuck for nearly half a year. During that time, his master, Sugimoto Masataka, asked an acquaintance to give Fujii an opportunity to practice. In March 2016, he placed third in the Nakasone Cup Kansai Shogi Tournament, and in his second year of junior high school, he was in the 59th Shogi Association 3rd Dan League in the first half of 2016. During this 3rd Dan League, he started researching AI at the recommendation of Shota Senda. He won the final game on September 3, 2016 against Tomoka Nishiyama, and finished first in the 3rd Dan League with 13 wins and 5 losses. On October 1 of the same year, he was promoted to 4th Dan (turned professional) at the age of 14 years and 2 months, breaking the record for the youngest player in 62 years (the previous record was 14 years and 7 months by Hifumi Kato on August 1, 1954). He is the fifth junior high school player in history to do so, following Hifumi Kato, Koji Tanigawa, Yoshiharu Habu, and Akira Watanabe. He is the sixth player to make it through the 3rd Dan League in one season, following Hisashi Ogura, Nobuyuki Yashiki, Takeshi Kawakami, Ayumu Matsuo, and Tatsuya Mimaido. The rest will be discussed in the sequel video. 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