Miyoko Watai

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Miyoko Watai, 1980 in Malta
Association JapanJapan Japan
Born January 8, 1945
Saitama Prefecture
title International Women's Champion (1994)
Current  Elo rating 2032 (October 2019)
Best Elo rating 2050 (January 1997 to July 1998, January 2001 to December 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Miyoko Watai ( Japanese 渡 井 美 代 子 , Watai Miyoko ; born January 8, 1945 in Saitama Prefecture ) is a Japanese chess player and official. She has the title of International Master (WIM) and is General Secretary of the Japanese Chess Federation .

Chess career

In 1975 Watai won the first Japanese women's championship. In 1978, 1979 and 2002 she was able to repeat this success. Internationally she represented Japan at the women's zone tournaments in 1972 ( Skopje ), 1978 ( Singapore ), 1985 ( Chengdu ), 1991 ( Kuala Lumpur ) and 1999 ( Ho Chi Minh City ). At the 1979 women's interzonal tournament in Alicante , she finished last, tied with Narelle Kellner .

She has been an international referee since 1983, and in 1994 she became the first Japanese woman ever to receive the title of International Champion (WIM). She also has the 7th Dan of the Japan Chess Association. Her Elo rating is 2032 (as of December 2014), but she is listed as inactive because she did not play an Elo-rated game after the 2002 Women's Chess Olympiad . It reached its highest Elo rating of 2050 for the first time in January 1997 and again in January 2001.

Watai is currently the general secretary of the Japanese Chess Federation and a member of its rules committee. She is committed to promoting the game of chess in Japan, including working as a chess teacher for the Super Smart Chess League (ス ー ー ー ・ ス マ ー ト ・ チ ェ ス リ ー グ) , the children's and youth program of the Japanese Chess Federation, which she co-founded and organized.

As an author, she has written several chess books. Since the end of her active career, she has worked as a referee and tournament director at almost all major tournaments in Japan, most recently at the national championships in Tokyo in 2014 .

National team

1980 Chess Olympiad in Malta, France - Japan (Watai on board 2)

With the Japanese women's team, she took part in all eight Chess Olympiads from 1972 to 1986 and in all four Chess Olympiads from 1996 to 2002 and scored a total of 62.5 points from 142 games. Watai took part in the Asian team championship in 1979, 1981, 1986, 1987 and 1993.

Private life

Watai graduated from Meiji Yakka Daigaku ( Meiji Pharmaceutical University ) and worked as a pharmacist. She lived in the area of ​​today's Ōta and from 1973 met the American world chess champion Bobby Fischer several times . From 2000 they lived together in their apartment. After his arrest on July 13, 2004, she initiated the campaign for his release. In August 2004, Watai and Fischer married. From April 2005 until Fischer's death in 2008, Watai lived with him in Iceland .

Fonts (selection)

  • 図 解 早 わ か り チ ェ ス (= "The illustrated chess handbook"). Nittō Shoin, Tokyo 1986, ISBN 4528004941 .
  • 最新 図 解 チ ェ ス (= "The latest illustrated chess book"). Nittō Shoin, Tokyo 1997, ISBN 452800853X .
  • は じ め て の チ ェ ス (= "starting with chess"). Seibidō Shuppan, Tokyo 2004, ISBN 4415025498 .

Web links

Commons : Miyoko Watai  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Author biography . In: は じ め て の チ ェ ス (= "starting with chess"). Seibidō Shuppan, Tokyo 2004, ISBN 4415025498 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ Domestic Archives , homepage of the Japan Chess Association (Japanese)
  3. ↑ Campeonato de Japón - femenino ( Memento of December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
  4. ↑ International Archives , Homepage of the Japan Chess Association (Japanese)
  5. ↑ World Chess Championship (Women) - 1979 Alicante Interzonal Tournament on mark-weeks.com/.
  6. ↑ Graduation table , homepage of the Japan Chess Association (Japanese)
  7. ↑ Japanese edition of the FIDE rules of chess, status 2009. (PDF; 571 kB)
  8. ↑ Super Smart Chess League , homepage of the Japan Chess Association (Japanese)
  9. ↑ Japan Chess League 2014 at the World Chess Federation FIDE
  10. ↑ Miyoko Watai's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  11. ↑ Miyoko Watai's results at the Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Watai, Miyoko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 渡 井 美 代 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese chess player and official
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Saitama Prefecture , Japan