Hero Otake, born on May 12, 1942, is 79 years old this year, and in 1956, he won the 6 consecutive championships of The Sage and became an honorary Saint. He won 1,317 wins and 48 titles in his career. After a 65-year career, he announced his retirement today.
At the press conference, he said: "Looking at the chessboard and not thinking how to make a beautiful situation, I think it is time to retire."
This year, Otake's record is 8 wins and 9 losses, and the last set of his career was November 11, when he lost to Yushi Ito in the preliminaries of the Ben inhobo Battle.
Hideo Ohtake (大竹火, Ōtake, born May 12, 1942 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese professional Go player under the kokudan men of Kitakuri. It entered the section in 1956 and was upgraded to nine sections in 1970. In 1992, he won the Fujitsu Cup. In 1994, he won the 6th Asian Cup TV Quick Chess Championship. He has won the "Best Chess Player Award" twice and the Xiuya Award once. In 2005, he was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal. Hero Otake's chess style is extremely thick, and it can be said that he is the thickest chess player in Japan. He paid great attention to the beauty of chess shapes, believing that ugly chess shapes could not be played at all, which would tarnish the chess game, so he was called "aesthetic chess player", and together with Lin Haifeng, he created the "bamboo forest era" of Japanese Go.
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