Takahashi : The fact that you can easily connect with people not only in Japan but also overseas to play games, watch professional shogi players play, and can play anytime using the app will lead to players improving their skills. Yoshihara : That's right. When learning Go, it is very important to "play many games." By playing many games and experiencing a variety of situations, there will be fewer "first-time situations." 3 Takahashi : In particular, the Chinese and Korean players who can play in the Yugen Room are extremely strong.
Yoshihara : Yes. At first, it was about catching up with and chinese overseas australia phone number list overtaking Japan, but before we knew it, they had been overtaken, and now it's a battle between China and Korea. To be honest, it feels like Japan is out of the loop right now... Yuta Iyama, a top shogi player who was recently awarded the People's Honor Award, is in a position where he might be able to get involved in that battle.
Takahashi : The number of athletes in China is nothing compared to Japan. Yoshihara : I'm not sure exactly why these two countries are so strong, but China has a national team, and Go players are considered professional athletes. They also have a high social status and are the object of admiration for the people. Meanwhile, in Korea, there was a time when players who won certain Go tournaments were exempt from military service. Now that there are so many winners, the system of military exemption seems to have disappeared, but such things are a great motivator.