Io Murota

Io Murota is a Japanese Professional [shogi player#Women's professionals|women's professional shogi player] ranked 3-dan.

Women's shogi professional

Promotion history

Murata's promotion history is as follows:

2-kyū: October 1, 2005
1: 1-kyū: April 1, 2006
1-dan: April 1, 2008
2-dan: September 10, 2014
3-dan: July 13, 2024

Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks.

Professional Shogi Players Group

Murota is a former vice-president of the, serving in that capacity from June 2015 until the end of May 2017.

Personal life

Murota married professional go player Yūta Iyama in 2012, but the couple divorced in 2015.In April 2022, she married then MBS announcer and announced she would continue her professional shogi activities as "Iyo Morota".