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Go Professional
A Go professional is a professional player of the game of Go. The minimum standard to acquire a professional diploma through one of the major Go organisations is very high. The competition is tremendous, and prize incentives for champion players are very large. For example, the Honinbo Tournament has a grand prize of about $350,000. Almost all professional players are from China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. This is because until recently, only China ( China Qiyuan), Japan (Nihon Ki-in, Kansai Ki-in), South Korea (Korea Baduk Association (Hanguk Gi-Won)), and Taiwan (Taiwan Chi Yuan Culture Foundation) had professional Go organizations. In 2012, the AGA Professional System was established in the United States. In 2014, the EGF professional system was established in Europe. Professional rankings are separate from the amateur ratings (usually ''30-kyu'' through ''7-dan''). Professional rankings are ''1-dan'' through ''9-dan'' (sometimes written ''1p'' through ''9p''). In the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go (game)
Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day. A 2016 survey by the International Go Federation's 75 member nations found that there are over 46 million people worldwide who know how to play Go and over 20 million current players, the majority of whom live in East Asia. The playing pieces are called stones. One player uses the white stones and the other, black. The players take turns placing the stones on the vacant intersections (''points'') of a board. Once placed on the board, stones may not be moved, but stones are removed from the board if the stone (or group of stones) is surrounded by opposing stones on all orthogonally adjacent points, in which case the stone or group is ''captured''. The game proceeds until neither player wishes to make another move. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cho Chikun
Cho Chikun ''25th Honinbo'' ''Honorary Meijin'' ( ko, 조치훈; born June 20, 1956) is a professional Go player and a nephew of Cho Namchul. Born in Busan, South Korea, he is affiliated to Nihon Ki-in. His total title tally of 75 titles is the most in the history of the Japanese Nihon Ki-in. Cho is the first player to hold the top three titles— Kisei, Meijin, and Honinbo—simultaneously which he did for three years in a row. Cho is the first in history to win all of the "Top 7" titles in Japan ( Kisei, Meijin, Honinbo, Judan, Tengen, Oza, and Gosei) which he achieved by winning the Oza in 1994. Cho U in 2011 and Iyama Yuta in 2013 would duplicate this feat, both by winning the Kisei. He is also one of the 'Six Supers' Japanese players that were most celebrated in the late twentieth century, along with Rin Kaiho, Otake Hideo, Takemiya Masaki, Kato Masao and his classmate and arch-rival Kobayashi Koichi. He is the author of several books on Go. The beginning (1962–1967 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Go Organizations
List of Go organizations: International * International Go Federation (IGF) (1982) Continental In 2021: * European Go Federation (2010) (EGF), for Europe * Asian Go Federation (2015), for Asia * Ibero-American Go Federation ( Federación Iberoamericana de Go) (2009), for Ibero-America * World Pair Go Association (2009), for World * Ing Changk Wei-Chi Education Foundation (2012) * Iwamoto North America Foundation for Go (2014) National See also * List of professional Go tournaments * List of Go players * Kansai Ki-in * All Japan Student Go Federation References External links The Iwamoto North America Foundation for Go (INAF) {{Go (game) |
International Go Federation
The International Go Federation (IGF) is an international organization that connects the various national Go federations around the world. Role The role of the IGF is to promote the sport of Go throughout the world, promote amicable relations among members and improve world go organization. It does so by carrying out the following activities: * Organizing the World Amateur Go Championship and other international Go tournaments; * Publishing and distributing to members up-to-date information on world Go activities, through bulletins or on the IGF website; * Other activities pertaining to the international development of Go. Policies The IGF is an apolitical and non-religious organization, and strives to promote fair play amongst all players. History The Japan Go Association organized the first World Go Amateur Championship in Japan, in 1979. Many of the top Go players from around the world and representatives from the major National Go Associations attended the event. Its su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrij Kravets
Andrij (also Andrii) Kravets (born December 12, 1990, Rivne) is a 1-dan professional Go player from Ukraine; member of numerous international amateur competitions (3rd European Pro Qualification, 2016) and previous Ukrainian Champion (2012, 2015). Go career 1999 – started to play. 2002 – 1st place, Youth Go Championship in category under 12, Prague. 2006 – Promoted to 4-dan. 2008 – Promoted to 5-dan. 2008 – Represented Ukraine in the 1st World Mind Sports competition, Beijing. 2010 – 2nd place in Ukrainian Championship (High League), Kyiv. 2011, 2012, 2013 – 3rd place in the European Team Championship. 2012 – Promoted to 6-dan. 2012 – 3rd place in 5th Shusaku Cup, Targu Mures. 2012 – 3rd place in European Iwamoto Memorial Tournament, Amsterdam. 2012 and 2015 – 1st place in Ukrainian Championship (High League), Kyiv. 2017 – 1st place in the 4th Pro Qualification Tournament, thus awarded 1-dan professional status by the European Go Federat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavol Lisy
Mgr. Pavol Lisý (born 9.2.1995, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia) was the first professional go player certified by the European Go Federation. Curriculum vitae After graduating from the Grosslingová high school, Pavel studied at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics at Comenius University in Bratislava. There he successfully defended first a bachelor's thesis on the topic "Cryptocurrency" and then a diploma thesis on the topic "The use of statistical modelling to predict the behaviour of mobile game players. In addition to go, he currently works as a programmer in the field of data processing. Go career Pavol Lisý started playing go at the age of 5. At the age of 6, he finished his first tournament at the 2001 European Children's Championship with six wins out of six games. He studied go at home and later was taught by Miroslav Poilak 3d once a week. In 2009, he received a scholarship provided to 10 promising young players from 10 countries to study go for 3 month ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artem Kachanovskyi
Artem Volodymyrovych Kachanovskyi ('' ukr.'' ''Арте́м Володи́мирович Качано́вський'', born 12.12.1992) is a 2-dan professional go player from Ukraine. He was the fifth player to be awarded professional status by the European Go Federation, in 2016. He has won the European Grand Slam tournament twice, in 2017 and 2021, and was runner-up in the European Championship four times, in 2010, 2019, 2021 and 2022. He placed third in the 2013 World Amateur Go Championship, an achievement shared by only two other European players. Among other high tournament placements, he was part of the winning team in the Pandanet European Team Championship in 2016 and 2022, and won the Silk Road Tournament in 2019 and the first season of the European Professional Go League in 2020. Biography Kachanovskyi was born on 12 December 1992 and grew up in Rivne, Ukraine. He began playing go at the age of 7 after his father read about the game in a newspaper and began to teach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Shikshin
Ilya Valerievich Shikshin (''Илья Валерьевич Шикшин'', born 7 May 1990) is a 4-dan professional Go player from Russia. He was the fourth player to be awarded professional status by the European Go Federation, in 2015. He has won 27 major European titles including the European Championship, European Team Championship and European Pair Go Championship. Biography Shikshin was born on 7 May 1990, in Kazan, Soviet Union. He began playing go at the age of 5 along with his sister Svetlana Shikshina, being tutored by his father, go teacher Valery Shikshin. In 2000, Shikshin won the European Under 12 Championship in Sinaia, Romania while holding the rank of 2-kyu. He reached the rank of 5-dan amateur two years later, after placing 4th in the European Youth Go Championship in Prague, Czech Republic. Shikshin was promoted to 6-dan amateur in 2005, two years later he was promoted to 7-dan amateur (the highest amateur rank) after winning the Russian, European Indivi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piao Wenyao
Piao Wenyao (; ; born April 25, 1988) is a Chinese people, Chinese professional Go (board game), Go Go players, player of Chaoxianzu, Korean ethnicity currently residing in Harbin, Heilongjiang. Biography Piao became a professional player at the age of 11 in 1999. He was promoted to a rank of 3 dan in 2001, and is currently 9 dan. Piao achieved his first international breakthrough in 2011 by winning the 15th LG Cup (Go), LG Cup, defeating compatriot Kong Jie by a score of 2-0. Prior to winning the LG Cup, Piao's other international achievement was coming in runners up in the World Oza, where he lost 2-0 to Gu Li (Go player), Gu Li in the finals. Promotion record Titles and runners-up Total: 3 titles, 4 runners-up. References Living people 1988 births Chinese Go players Chinese people of Korean descent Sportspeople from Harbin {{PRChina-Go-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oteai
The was a tournament used in Japan, by the Nihon Ki-in and Kansai Ki-in, to determine the ranking of its go professionals on the dan scale. It was instituted in the 1920s soon after the Ki-in was set up in 1924. Initially it was run in Spring and Autumn sessions in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ..., with the pros brought together to play around eight games in each session (the name means simply "grand meeting"). It has currently ceased to exist after it was replaced by new reforms. Professionals in the Nihon Ki-in could claim promotions based on their performance in the Oteai. To qualify for a promotion, players had to win a certain percentage of a certain number of successive games. The proportion, and number of games depended on the player's current rank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuseki
''Fuseki'' (Japanese: ; ) is the whole board opening in the game of Go. Characteristics Less systematic Since each move is typically isolated and unforced (i.e. not a sente move), patterns for play on the whole board have seen much less systematic study than for Joseki, which are often contact moves which require specific and immediate responses. Hence a game of Go may easily explore an unfamiliar path. Recognised names Only a proportion of fusekis have recognised or specific names. These include the two-star fuseki ('' nirensei fuseki''), three-star fuseki ('' sanrensei fuseki''), Chinese fuseki, Kobayashi fuseki, and Shusaku fuseki. These are names for the influential formations which Black makes in the opening. Type of fuseki Territorial approach As played on a large board (e.g. the standard 19x19 line goban), traditional wisdom says the priority is to play corner enclosures, then to extend to the middle of the sides, and finally to the center because it is easier to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
