Takuya Nishida (西田 拓也, Nishida Takuya, born August 25, 1991) is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5-dan.
[1] He learned how to play shogi from a book that his parent bought for him,[2] and made it to the semi-finals of the 28th Elementary School Student Meijin Tournament [ja] as a sixth-grade elementary school student in 2003 before losing to future fellow shogi professional and eventual tournament winner Kazuo Sugimoto.
[3][4] Nishida entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school at the rank of 6-kyū as a student of shogi professional Nobuo Mori [ja] in April 2005.
[2] He was promoted to the rank of 3-dan in October 2008 and obtained professional status and the rank of 4-dan in April 2017 after winning the 60th 3-dan League (October 2016 – March 2017) with a record of 15 wins and 3 losses.
[2][5] In October 2017, Nishida defeated defending champion Junpei Ide 2 games to 1 to win the 7th Kakogawa Seiryū Tournament [ja].