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| Full name | Ryo Ichiriki | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 June 1997 | ||||||||||||||
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| Turned pro | 2010 | ||||||||||||||
| Rank | 9 dan | ||||||||||||||
| Affiliation | Nihon Ki-in | ||||||||||||||
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Ryo Ichiriki (一力 遼, Ichiriki Ryō; born 10 June 1997) is a Japanese professional 9-dan Go player. As Go player, he was a pupil of So Kofuku. [1] Since 2020 he has also worked as a journalist for Kahoku Shimpo. [2]
Ichiriki was born in 1997 in Sendai into a wealthy family which has run media companies. [2] His grandfather, Kazuo Ichiriki, then CEO of Kahoku Shimpo and Tohoku Broadcasting Company, was a big fan of Go and taught him playing Go. Ichiriki took Go lessons from other local amateur players too. [3]
Ichiriki went to Nihon Ki-in Go School as professional candidate from his childhood, first visited the school from Sendai, later from Tokyo. He moved to Tokyo with his mother in 2008. [4]
In Summer 2010 he was qualified as Go professional. [5]
In 2014, he won the 1st Globis Cup, an international U-20 tournament held annually in Japan. [6] [7] [8] [9]
He won his first title in a top-seven Japanese Go competition at the 45th Gosei in 2020, defeating Naoki Hane 3–0 in the title match. [10] The same year, he won the 46th Tengen title in a 3–2 victory over Yuta Iyama to take his second major title. [11]
In 2021, he finished in the top four in the 9th Ing Cup, after being defeated by Xie Ke in the semifinal. [12]
In 2024, he won the Ing Cup with a 3-0 in the final against Xie Ke. This marked the first major international title for a Japanese player in more than 20 years.
| Competitions | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ing Cup | - | × | - | SF | - | W | - | |||||
| Samsung Cup | × | × | × | × | × | × | QF | × | R16 | × | R32 | × |
| LG Cup | × | × | R16 | R32 | R16 | × | R32 | QF | × | × | × | RU |
| Mlily Cup | - | R64 | - | × | - | QF | - | R32 | - | |||
| Chunlan Cup | × | - | R32 | - | R32 | - | × | - | R32 | - | R16 | - |
| Kuksu Mountains | - | R16 | × | - | × | R16 | × | QF | × | |||
| Lanke Cup | - | × | R64 | × | ||||||||
| Shinhan Cup | - | QF | ||||||||||
| Asian TV Cup | × | QF | × | SF | × | QF | - | |||||
| Nongshim Cup | 1:1 | 3:1 | 1:1 | 0:1 | 0:1 | 0:1 | 0:1 | 0:1 | 0:1 | 0:1 | 0:1 | |
(W) Winner; (RU) Runner-up; (SF) Semifinalist; (QF) Quarterfinalist; (R16) Round of 16; (R32) Round of 32; (R64) Round of 64.
International:
Major domestic titles:
Other domestic tournaments won:
Alongside his professional Go career, Ichiriki enrolled in the Waseda University School of Social Sciences in 2016. [13] He graduated in 2020 and began working at Kahoku Shimpo, his family's newspaper. He is a journalist at its Tokyo branch office. However, his main focus is still his career as a Go player. [2]