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was a Japanese professional shogi player〔 and president of Japan Shogi Association〔(RIKEN and Fujitsu host symposium on ‘shogi intuition’ (Japanese chess) research )〕 (May, 2005 - December 18, 2012〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=組織概要［創立・沿革］ )〕). He received an honorary title "Eisei Kisei" (Lifetime Kisei) due to his remarkable results in Kisei title tournament.〔 == Biography == Yonenaga was born in Masuho, Yamanashi in 1943.〔 He became a disciple of shogi professional Yūji Sase and moved to Tokyo to live with his teacher to become a professional. Yonenaga became a professional in 1963, and was promoted to 9 dan in 1979.〔 Yonenaga was regarded as one of the best shogi players through the 1970s and 1980s. He won Kisei, his first titleholder championship in 1973 and dominated four of the seven shogi titles in 1984. He was awarded as Best Shogi Player of the Year thrice (1978, 1983 and 1984), though he had not won a Meijin title, then regarded the supreme tournament, for decades. He finally won Meijin in 1993 when he was 49 (the oldest on record), but he was defeated by Yoshiharu Habu the next year. Yonenaga retired in 2003.〔 He was also an education board member for Tokyo.〔(Tokyo's Flag Law: Proud Patriotism, or Indoctrination? )〕 In 2008 Yonenaga announced he had suffered cancer since 2008 spring.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2013-04-01 )〕 He reported his cancer diagnosis on his website occasionally which later turned into a book ''Cancer Note'' (published in 2009). Yonenaga was one of early shogi professionals who played with computer shogi publicly. In 2012, he played a game with bonkras(:ja:ボンクラーズ (コンピュータ将棋), a computer shogi software, and lost it. Yonenaga authored ''I lost'' about this game, which was eventually his last book. Yonenaga died on December 18 2012 from prostate cancer at a hospital in Tokyo. He was succeeded by the professional Koji Tanigawa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kunio Yonenaga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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