Tetsuya Fujimori
Native name	藤森哲也
Born	(1987-05-09) May 9, 1987 (age 39)
Hometown	Ōta, Tokyo, Japan
Career
Achieved professional status	October 1, 2011(2011-10-01) (aged 24)
Badge number	285
Rank	6-dan
Teacher	Yasuaki Tsukada (9-dan)
Meijin class	C2
Ryūō class	5
Websites
JSA profile page
Tetsuya Fujimori on X

Tetsuya Fujimori (藤森 哲也, Fujimori Tetsuya; born May 9, 1987) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 6-dan.

Early life and apprenticeship

Fujimori was born in Ōta, Tokyo on May 9, 1987.^[1] He learned shogi from his mother Natsuko, who is a retired women's shogi professional,^[2] at an early age and eventually was accepted into the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū under the tutelage of shogi professional Yasuaki Tsukada in 1999.^[3]

Fujimori was promoted to the rank of apprentice professional 3-dan in 2007, and full professional status and the rank of 4-dan in 2011 after finishing the 49th 3-dan League (April 2011 – September 2011) in second place with a record of 12 wins and 6 losses.^[3][4]

Shogi professional

Fujimori finished runner-up in the Shinjin-Ō tournament twice. He lost the 43rd Shinjin-Ō match to Takuya Nagase 2 games to 1 in October 2012,^[5][6] and then 44th Shinjin-Ō match to Ryūma Tonari by the same score in October of the following year.^[7]

Personal life

Fujimori's and his mother are the only mother–son pair to become professional shogi players. His father is also a strong amateur shogi player.^[2]

References

External links

• ShogiHub: Professional Player Info · Fujimori, Tetsuya Archived 2017-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
• Tetsuya Fujimori on X
• Tetsuya Fujimori's channel on YouTube (in Japanese)

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