Daichi Sasaki

Honestly, professional shogi players live in a mental universe I can barely glimpse. Daichi Sasaki was born in 1995, which means he's been grinding through the brutal apprentice system since he was practically a kid — the kind of system where most hopefuls wash out before they ever earn the title "professional." To reach the top ranks and hold your own against legends like Fujii Sota's generation, you have to be calculating dozens of moves deep in real time, with a clock ticking and cameras rolling. I don't even remember what piece moves in an L-shape, and this guy is doing that for a living. What gets me is how invisible the labor is — all those years of solitary study, replaying games, hunting for the one move that changes everything. The scoreboard doesn't show any of that. But when a name sticks around in shogi, it means the work was there, quiet and relentless.

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Daichi Sasaki is a Japanese professional shogi player born on May 30, 1995. He belongs to the world of competitive shogi, a discipline demanding deep strategic calculation many moves ahead. Born in Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, and a disciple of Kōichi Fukaura, he turned professional in 2016 and is ranked 7-dan.

Name (English)

Daichi Sasaki

Name (Japanese)

佐々木大地

Reading

ささき だいち

Born

May 30, 1995 (age 31)

Origin

Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Professional Shogi Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Boar

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E3%80%85%E6%9C%A8%E5%A4%A7%E5%9C%B0%20(%E6%A3%8B%E5%A3%AB)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24863872

Tags

• Shogi Player

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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