Manfred Wimmer ( 1944 – 1995) was the first
Western
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professional Go player.
Manfred Wimmer was born in
Austria
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in 1944. He won the
European Go Championship
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in 1969 and 1974. He became a professional
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in the
Kansai Ki-In
The Kansai Ki-in (), i.e., Kansai Go Association, is an organizational body for the game of Go in Japan, which was founded by Hashimoto Utaro in 1950. Though it is not as large as its chief rival, the Nihon Ki-in, it also issues diplomas to stron ...
on January 26, 1978 (shortly before
James Kerwin
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, the American who became the second Western Go professional on February 14, 1978, in the
Nihon Kiin
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). Wimmer was promoted to the
rank of 2p the same year (though gobase.org lists him as a 1p).
In 1991, he introduced the game of Go in
Madagascar
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and, around the same time, reportedly in
Kenya
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. Wimmer died of a
stroke in
Vienna
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in 1995 while playing Go at a cafe.
"Obituary of Manfred Wimmer" (European Go Federation)
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See also
* European Go Players
* European Go Federation
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References
External links
Pok's "a kind of obituary" of Manfred WimmerSenseis Library page on Manfred Wimmer
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1944 births
1995 deaths
Austrian Go players