Yesterday Habu beat Kubo in a game of 66th Juni-sen. With this victory, he achieved 1000 wins since he became a professional player. He is the quickest, youngest player with the highest winning percentage at the time of getting to the great record comparing with the other 7 players who already achieved 1000 victories. According to Mainichi, he achieved it in 22 years at the age of 37 with the winning percentage of .728(1000 wins, 373 losses and 1 jishogi). Tanigawa is the second quickest player who achieved it in 25 years and 6 months at the age of 40. Oyama has the second highest winning percentage of .687 at the time of getting to it.
Congratulation on Habu.
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