Toshiro Yamabe

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Toshiro Yamabe
Full name	Toshiro Yamabe
Kanji	山部俊郎
Date of birth	July 31, 1926
Place of birth	Tokyo, Japan
Date of death	February 5, 2000 (aged 73)
Teacher	Mukai Kazuo
Rank	9 dan

Toshiro Yamabe (山部俊郎, Yamabe Toshiro^?, July 31, 1926—February 5, 2000) was a professional Go player.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Promotion record 3 Titles & runners-up 4 External links 5 Source

[edit] Biography

Toshiro was a student of Mukai Kazuo from 1941. He became shodan professional at the Nihon Ki-in in 1941, and reached 9 dan in 1969. He was known for his early resignations of games, sometimes claiming that he refused to play on because of his opponents mistake.

[edit] Promotion record

Rank	Year	Notes
1 dan	1941
2 dan	1942
3 dan	1943
4 dan	1945
5 dan	1949
6 dan	1951
7 dan	1954
8 dan	1957
9 dan	1969

[edit] Titles & runners-up

Title	Years Lost
Honinbo	1965
Tengen	1980
Oza	1959
Hayago Championship	1977, 1981
Igo Senshuken	1965

[edit] External links

• GoBase Profile
• GoGameWorld Profile
• Sensei's Library Profile

[edit] Source

1. GoBase
2. GoGameWorld
3. Sensei's Library