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Yusuke Takanashi is a five-time world champion and one of the best Othello players of all time.

Yusuke started playing in Othello tournaments in 2005 as a young teenager. At the age of 16, he reached his first final of one of the Japanese major tournaments, the 2008 All-Japan championship, losing to Takamune Iijima. This lost final acted as turning point and Yusuke would later explain in an interview that without this defeat and the frustration that went with it, he would not be the player that he is today.

The following year in 2009, Yusuke would win his first major tournament, the prestigious "Meijin" (Masters) title, qualifying him on the Japanese team for the World Othello Championships in Ghent, Belgium. Yusuke won the 2009 WOC defeating Matthias Berg in two straight games in the final and went on to win another 4 world titles over the next 8 years.

	World Othello Champion 2009, Ghent, Belgium World Othello Champion 2010, Rome, Italy World Othello Champion 2012, Leeuwarden, Netherlands World Othello Champion 2015, Cambridge, Great Britain World Othello Champion 2017, Ghent, Belgium World Othello Team Champion 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 All-Japan Championship 2012, 2019 Meijin-sen 2009, 2010, 2015, 2017, 2024 Ouza-sen 2015, 2016, 2018 Rome International (EGP) 2018
	World Othello Championship 2019, Tokyo, Japan All-Japan Championship 2008
	World Othello Championship 2016, Mito, Japan World Othello Championship 2018, Prague, Czech Republic