Hiroyuki Miura

I'll be honest — I came into this knowing almost nothing about professional shogi, and Hiroyuki Miura quietly changed that. Born in 1974 in Takasaki, Gunma, he's spent decades doing something most of us couldn't manage for twenty minutes: sitting motionless in front of a board, reading dozens of moves deep into a future that doesn't exist yet. By the time 2024 rolled around he was pushing fifty, and younger players have been nipping at the heels of every veteran in the game, yet he's still there. That kind of longevity in a world built on pure pattern recognition and brutal mental stamina isn't luck — it's backbone. He broke Habu's seven-crown sweep in 1996 and came through a false cheating accusation in 2016 with his dignity intact, which I actually respect: when your whole craft is played out in silence on 81 squares, maybe you've already said everything that needs saying.

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Hiroyuki Miura is a Japanese professional shogi player born on February 13, 1974, in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. He has built a long career at the top levels of competitive shogi, continuing as an active player into his fifties. A former Kisei title holder — he took the title from Yoshiharu Habu in 1996, ending Habu's hold on all seven major titles — he became the first active Class A professional to lose to a computer in 2013 and was falsely accused of cheating in 2016.

Name (English)

Hiroyuki Miura

Name (Japanese)

三浦弘行

Reading

みうら ひろゆき

Born

February 13, 1974 (age 52)

Origin

Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Professional Shogi Player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Tiger

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%B5%A6%E5%BC%98%E8%A1%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11271483

Tags

• From Gunma Prefecture
• Shogi Player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.