Japanese girl set to be the world\'s youngest Go player

(ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION) A Japanese school girl is set to become the world's youngest professional Go player when she enters the board game's rankings as a 10-year-old in April.

In a news conference in Tokyo on Saturday (January 5), Sumire Nakamura is currently nine years old.

She will enrol into a special program ran by the country's Go Association and begin her training as a professional after April 1.

By doing so, Nakamura will break the record set by fellow Japanese Rina Fujisawa who became a professional player when she was 11 in 2010, local media reported.

Nakamura's father Shinya Nakamura is also a professional Go player, although he said he did not expect his daughter to turn professional so soon.