Kansai Ki-in
The Kansai Ki-in (関西棋院, i.e., Kansai Go Association) is an organization for the game of Go in Japan, which was founded in 1950 at Osaka. It is not as large as the Nihon Ki-in based in Tokyo, but it also gives diplomas to strong players and maintain their professional player system as the Nihon Ki-in does. They also hire professional players as same as the Nihon Ki-in (with different rules and age restrictions).
Famous players at Kansai Ki-in
- Daisuke Murakawa
- Dogen Handa (1915-1974)
- Hideyuki Sakai
- Manfred Wimmer (born in Austria)
- Satoshi Yuki
- Shoji Hashimoto (1935-2009)
- Utaro Hashimoto (1907-1994, founder of Kansai Ki-in)
Female players
Related pages
Other websites
- Official Website of Kansai Ki-in Archived 2020-12-06 at the Wayback Machine
