Madoka Kitao

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Madoka Kitao
Native name	北尾まどか
Born	(1980-01-21) January 21, 1980 (age 41)
Hometown	Tokyo
Nationality	Japanese
Career
Achieved professional status	October 1, 2000(2000-10-01) (aged 20)
Badge Number	W-43
Rank	Women's 2-dan
Teacher	[ja] (9-dan)
Websites
JSA profile page
Madoka Kitao on Twitter

Madoka Kitao (北尾 まどか, Kitao Madoka, born January 21, 1980) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 2-dan.^[1]

Shogi-related business and promotion activities[]

Kitao, together with former women's professional  [ja] created the game dōbutsu shogi [ja], a simplified version of shogi designed to help beginners learn the game, in 2008: Kitao came up with the rules of the game, while Fujita designed the game's pieces.^[2] She is also the representative director and founder of (株式会社ねこまど), a shogi promotion, education and publishing company.^[2]

Kitao is also credited with discovering Karolina Styczyńska while playing online shogi on the website 81Dojo as part of her efforts at promoting shogi outside of Japan among non-Japanese players. Kitao was quite impressed with the strength of Styczyńska's play, eventually found out who she was and then made arrangements for her to come and practice shogi in Japan.^[3] Styczyńska, through Kitao's further encouragement and support, eventually went on to become the first non-Japanese to be awarded any type of professional status by the Japan Shogi Association.^[4]

Karolina Styczyńska with Kitao in 2013

Promotion history[]

Kitao has been promoted as follows:^[5]

• 2000, October 1: 2-kyū
• 2001, April 1: 1-kyū
• 2003, April 1: 1-dan
• 2013, August 1: 2-dan

Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks.

References[]

External links[]

• ShogiHub: Professional Player Info · Kitao, Madoka
• BoardGameGeek: Madoka Kitao
• blog: 北尾まどか
• old blog: 将棋の輪
• Nekomado

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