Tetsuya Nakajima

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中島 哲也
Tetsuya Nakajima participated in the World Championship of Milan 1999 where he finished at the second place.

4th in the World Championship 2006 and 2007 .

World Team Champion in 2006 and 2007.

Best Meijin: WINNER (1997, 1998, and 2006)
Best Japanese championship: WINNER (2006)
Best Ouza-sen: WINNER (2007)

8 DAN player in Japan.

He is the author of an othello book:


Xbox game (2002)

He is the player with the most tournament wins in (the more important) Japanese tournaments since 2004.

• 2010: 4
• 2009: 9
• 2008: 16
• 2007: 10
• 2006: 10
• 2005: 7
• 2004: 5

He also won 14 (more important) tournaments in Japan before 2004. His maximum streak is 23 victories in a row.

Evolution in the Japanese rating list (current #4)

During the Meijin 2005 tournament (21st of march) there was a mini tournament between some of the best players in the world that year:

Kenta Tominaga, Takeshi Murakami, Makoto Suekuni, Tetsuya Nakajima, Kazuhiro Sakaguchi
Hideshi Tamenori, Ben Seeley, Hiroshi Goto