1 / 4   Sumire Nakamura, a nine-year-old fourth-grader from Osaka, is on track to become the youngest professional Go player in Japan. She will be 10 when she joins the Japanese professional league and receives her ranking on April 1. /VCG Photo

2 / 4   Go, a board game widely played in East Asia, runs in the Nakamura family; her father is a ninth-dan professional player. Sumire reportedly started playing the game at age 3. /VCG Photo

3 / 4   Sumire will break the record of Rina Fujisawa, who went professional at the age of 11 years and six months in 2010. /VCG Photo

4 / 4   Go, which is thought to have originated in China several thousand years ago, involves two players who take turns putting black or white stones on a 19-by-19 grid. /VCG Photo