From: Reijer Grimbergen ETL GO JP> Date: 18 apr 1996 Subject: Re: how many profis are there? Klaus Blumberg WS RZ TU-BS DE> writes: > hello, > the subject-line says it all ... > i was asked the other day how many shogi-pro there are in japan. somehow my > memory came up with the number of 140, but no details. > so: is the number of 140 shogi-pros still correct? how would they split up on > the on the different ranks? especially, of course, the ranks from 5. dan > upwards. > any takers? > thanks Next year a total of 120 professionals will be listed in the Junisen. Together with Habu (not in the Junisen as the Meijin title holder) this makes 121. Furthermore, there are 18 professionals in the free class. Of these 18, only Iida will not play any professional games next year, so you could say that there are 138 active professionals in total. Split by rank: 9-dan: 17 8-dan: 18 7-dan: 20 6-dan: 38 5-dan: 31 4-dan: 14 Total: 138 Reijer -- Reijer Grimbergen Electrotechnical Laboratory Palcious Tsukuba 302 1-1-4 Umezono 1-24-8 Ninomiya Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305 JAPAN 305 JAPAN E-mail: grimberg etl go jp Tel: 0298-59-1606 WWW: http://www.etl.go.jp:8080/etl/suiron/~grimberg Tel: +81-(0)298-54-5080 extension: 67431 Fax: +81-(0)298-58-5918