Katsukiyo Kubomatsu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese professional go player
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Place of Birth: Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
About Katsukiyo Kubomatsu
- Katsukiyo Kubomatsu (??????, 25 October 1894 – 15 December 1941) was a Japanese professional go player.
- Nicknamed the Great Amateur, Kubomatsu was responsible for sending Utaro Hashimoto and Minoru Kitani to Kensaku Segoe and Tamejiro Suzuki respectively and also taught Nobuaki Maeda.
- Kubomatsu was known as one of the earliest innovators of the shin-fuseki, a revolution in Go theory pioneered by his student Minoru Kitani and Go Seigen in the 1930s.
- Kubomatsu was known for starting on the tengen, the center point of the board.
- He was posthumously promoted to 9 dan by the Nihon Ki-in and Kansai Ki-in in 2009, 67 years after his death.
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