title: Kumi Yamada
text: # Kumi Yamada
  
  Kumi Yamada (山田 久美, Yamada Kumi, born January 6, 1967) is a Japanese women's professional shogi player ranked 4-dan. She is the current president of the Ladies Professional Players Group [ja].
  
  ## Women's shogi professional
  
  ### Promotion history
  
  Yamada's promotion history is as follows.
  
  * 2-kyū: April 20, 1982
  * 1-dan: April 1, 1983
  * 2-dan: February 28, 1990
  * 3-dan: April 1, 2000
  * 4-dan: September 29, 2014
  
  Note: All ranks are women's professional ranks.
  
  ### Titles and other championships
  
  Yamada has appeared in major titles match twice, but has yet to win a major title. She unsuccessfully challenged for the 12th Women's Ōshō [ja] title in 1989, the 22nd Kurashiki Tōka Cup [ja] title in 2014.
  
  ## Ladies Professional Players Group
  
  Yamada was elected president of the Ladies Professional Players Group [ja] for the first time in June 2017, and re-elected to another two-year term in June 2019.
  
  