Akira Watanabe (chess player)
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Akira Watanabe | |
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![]() Watanabe in 2008 | |
Country | Japan |
Born | Tokyo, Japan | March 1, 1972
Title | FIDE Master (1997) |
FIDE rating | 2284 (September 2014) |
Peak rating | 2388 (January 2000) |
Akira Watanabe (渡辺 暁, Watanabe Akira, born March 1, 1972) is a Japanese political scientist, and chess player. In 2020, he was an associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He was born in Tokyo and his research focuses on Mexican politics and Latin American culture and politics
Profile[edit]
He learned chess in elementary school becoming serious at when he was a high school student, at Azabu High School. After graduating from Tokyo University, he studied in Mexico. In 1997 he obtained the ranking of FIDE Master [1] He has won the Japan Chess Championship three times, being national champion in 1998, 1999 and 2000. He has represented Japan in the Chess Olympiad on several occasions.
Watanabe is sometimes confused with Akira Watanabe a shogi player who has the same surname and the same reading of the name in English characters. Watanabe's favorite openings are the Sicilian Defense and King's Indian Defense.
In the field of Latin American research, he became an associate professor at Yamanashi University from April 2012, as well as, University of Tokyo. He is a part-time lecturer in Spanish at Keio University and Surugadai University. He transferred to Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2020 and continues to work as a part-time lecturer at other universities.
Titles[edit]
- All Japan junior champion – 1990, 1991
- All Japan school champion – 1992, 1993
- Japanese Chess Championship – 1999, 2000, 2001
- Japan League champion – 1998, 1999, 2002
- Japan rapid champion – 1992
Publications[edit]
- Chess, start from here
- Akira Watanabe's Chess course learn strategy and how to think 24 Lessons
- Easy even for beginners, introduction to illustrated chess
Co-translation[edit]
- Under the volcano (with Malcolm Lowry)
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External links[edit]
- Living people
- 1972 births
- Japanese political scientists
- Japanese chess players
- University of Tokyo alumni
- Sportspeople from Tokyo
- Chess FIDE Masters
- Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology
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