Another Famous Player

Fujisawa Hideyuki, “Shuko” is not often cited among the very
best go players. But he was among the top players for over 3
generations of go professionals and played a number of matches
with most of them. Sort of a mandatory stop along the career
path. But that’s not why I’ve compiled this – I just like the
moves he found. :-)

Here is a list of Shuko’s main opponents, the years they played,
and the matches for titles. If no title is listed, the games
played were mostly either League games, or part of a knock-out
tournament. The win/lose statistics differ depending on who is
holding the black stones in the early years, before they started
using komi. Note that three of his games with Sakata ended in jigo.

Shuko Go Seigen 1949-73
B 5 B 2
W 5 W 3

Special Matches

Shuko Takagawa Shukaku 1949-82
B 9 B 8
W 19 W 13

lost Honinbo15;1960
won ProBest10(2);1965

Shuko Sakata Eio 1951-89
B 13 B 22
W 9, j W 17, 2j

won Saikoi5; 1960
??? Saikoi6; 1961
lost KihonKiinCh8; 1961
lost Meijin2; 1963
lost Meijin3; 1964
lost Honinbo21; 1966
won ProBest10-5;1968
won Oza16; 1968
lost Judan7; 1968
lost Oza18; 1970

Shuko Kitani Minoru 1953-64
B 2 B 4
W 1 W 2

Shuko Hashimoto Utaro 1953-77
B 8 B 7
W 6 W 6

won Kisei1,1976

Shuko Ohira Shuzo 1957-90
B 6 B 2
W 6 W 3

won Tengen1, 1975

Shuko Fujisawa Hosai 1959-75
B 6 B 2
W 7 W 0

Shuko Yamabe Toshiro 1959-76
B 8 B 2
W 1 W 0

Shuko Hashimoto Shoji 1960-98
B 1 B 6
W 4 W 3

Shuko Rin Kaiho 1964-95
B 15 B 15
W 11 W 15

won Meijin9;1970
lost Meijin10;1971
lost Meijin11;1972
won Kisei4; 1980
won Kisei6;1982

Shuko Kato Masao 1967-95
B 4 B 11
W 7 W 8

won Kisei2; 1978
lost Tengen4; 1978
lost Oza41; 1993

Shuko Takemiya Masaki 1968-94
B 3 B 9
W 3 W 6

Shuko Otake Hideo 1969-92
B 6 B 7
W 8 W 9

won Oza17;1969
lost All-Japan1; 1970,
lost All Japan4; 1974
won Kisei5; 1981

Shuko Ishida Yoshio 1971-89
B 6 B 7
W 5 W 3

won Kisei3, 1976

Shuko Cho Chikun 1974-92
B 3 B 14
W 5 W 7

lost 8Strongest, 1976
lost Kisei7, 1983;

Shuko Kobayashi Koichi 1975-97
B 5 B 5
W 3 W 3

won Oza40, 1992

Shuko Yamashiro Hiroshi 1982-94
B 1 B 7
W 1 W 2

The complete list of his opponents reads like the
Who’s Who of the 20th Century
:
Opp Shuko
Aoki Shinichi 1
Awaji Shuzo 3 4
Cao Dayuan 1 1
Chang Hao 1 0
Chen Zude 1 1
Chino Tadahiko 1 2
Cho Chikun 21 8
Cho Hun-hyeon 2 0
Cho Nam-ch’eol 1 0
Fujisawa Hosai 2 13
Fujisawa Kuranosuke 0 1
Fukui Masaaki 1 0
Go Seigen 5 10
Goto Shungo 1 1
Handa Dogen 1 1
Hane Naoki 0 1
Hane Yasumasa 1 6
Haruyama Isamu 0 1
Hasegawa Akira 1 0
Hashimoto Shoji 9 5
Hashimoto Utaro 13 14
Hashimoto Yoshimi 0 2
Hikosaka Naoto 1 1
Hisai Keishi 1 2
Hisajima Kunio 1 0
Honda Kunihisa 2 2
Hoshino Toshi 0 1
Imamura Fumiaki 1 0
Imamura Toshiya 1 1
Inagaki Koichi 0 1
Ishida Akira 3 4
Ishida Atsushi 1 0
Ishida Yoshio 10 11
Ishii Kunio 2 4
Ishii Mamoru 0 1
Iwamoto Kaoru 3 0 j
Iwata Tatsuaki 2 1
Kada Katsuji 1 3
Kaji Kazutame 0 1
Kajiwara Takeo 3 0
Kaku Kyushin 0 1
Kamimura Kunio 0 2
Kanashima Tadashi 0 1
Kanno Kiyonori 1 0
Kano Yoshinori 1 2
Kataoka Satoshi 4 2
Kato Masao 19 11
Kawamoto Noboru 0 1
Kawamura Kazunori 1 0
Kikosaka Naoto 0 1
Kionari Tetsuya 0 1
Kisajima Kunio 0 1
Kitani Minoru 6 3
Kobayashi Koichi 8 8
Kobayashi Satoru 2 2
Kojima Takaho 1 1
Komatsu Hideki 4 2
Kubo Katsauaki 0 1
Kubouchi Shuchi 1 1
Kudo Norio 0 3
Liu Xiaoguang 3 0
Ma Xioapjng 0 1
Maeda Nobuaki 1 2
Magari Reiki 1 4
Mimura Tomoyasu 0 1
Miyamoto Naoki 1 3
Miyamoto Yoshihisa 1 0
Miyashita Shuyo 1 7
Miyamoto Naoki 0 1
Miyazawa Goro 1 0
Nakamura Hidehito 0 2
Nakamura Yutaro 0 1
Nakao Jungo 0 1
Nie Weiping 5 1
O Meien 3 1
O Rissei 4 0
Ogoshi Ichiro 1 0
Ohira Shuzo 5 12
Otake Hideo 16 14
Oya Koichi 1 0
Redmond, Michael 1 0
Rin Kaiho 30 26
Ryu Shikun 1 0
Sakai Michihaur 0 1
Sakai Takeshi 1 2
Sakakibara Shoji 0 1
Sakata Eio 39 22 3j
Sato Masaharu 0 2
Sato Sunao 0 1
Sekiyama Toshio 0 1
Seo Pong-su 1 0
Shimamura Toshihiro 2 5
Shinohara Masami 0 1
Shiriaishi Yutaka 1 2
Sonoda Yuichi 5 1
Sugiuchi Masao 2 4
Suzuki Etsuo 0 1
Takagawa Shukaku 21 28
Takagi Shoichi 1 3
Takanashi Seiken 0 1
Takemiya Masaki 15 6
Tei Meiko 0 1
Tokimoto Jahime 0 1
Tono Hiroaki 1 0
Tozawa Akinobu 0 1
Tsuchida Masamitsu 1 0
Ushinohama Satsuo 0 1
Yamabe Toshiro 2 9
Yamashiro Hiroshi 9 2
Yamashiro Keigo 0 2
Yasumasa Hane 0 1
Yasunaga Hajime 0 1
Yi ch’ang-ho 1 0
Yo Kaei 0 1
Yoda Norimoto 7 1
Yukawa Mitsuhisa 0 2
Yuki Satoshi 1 1
Zhou Xingzeng 1 0

Statistics extracted from GoGod.

Read his biography at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyuki_Fujisawa .

One Response to “Another Famous Player”

  1. Logan says:

    R.I.P. I’ll enjoy your games for years to come.

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