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Seven-Dan Players on KGS
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This is a list of players on KGS (the Kiseido Go Server) who are ranked there as 7 dan or higher. Generally, I have not considered players rated with a ?, unless they have played a lot of games with proper handicap and just haven't lost any of them...

EGF Ratings as of July 4, 2003.


Pro Players


9 dans

  • kirara - finally we again have a 9d without a question mark, and everyone wonders what the picture is all about!
  • dinner
  • mymy is rumoured to be a 6-dan pro.
  • tartrate, the undefeated mystery man.
  • sariyu, also undefeated but not quite as mysterious, says he is a Japanese 7d amateur.
  • maru16
  • HappyGo?

8 dans

  • DKiller72 is Yupei Xiong, a Chinese 1-dan pro now living in the USA.
  • fj is Franz-Josef Dickhut from Germany, EGF 2652.
  • flygo.
  • LBL.
  • maths is Jooyoung Kim? from Korea, living in the USA.
  • motoki is Noguchi Motoki from Japan, currently living in France, EGF 2545.
  • Nevereat.
  • Sayakasdad.
  • Solaris is Cristian Pop from Romania, EGF 2715.
  • supersonic.
  • update.
  • uro.
  • veggie is Thomas Hsiang from the USA.

7 dans

  • abel.
  • asiyanobom.
  • client is Lucian Deaconu from Romania, EGF 2513.
  • darkmage is Chen Zhaonian from China, now living in the US. Has been playing go for 7 years.
  • derArzt.
  • dra.
  • drunk.
  • fiying.
  • forgo is an AGA 7d.
  • Galileo.
  • gentil is Nguyen Minh-Quy? from France, EGF 2378.
  • grandview.
  • heboman.
  • jef is Jeff Séailles? from France, EGF 2563.
  • jim (same player as client).
  • jokersaku.
  • kansai.
  • khuang.
  • lim from Korea.
  • LongestDay?.
  • macisajt.
  • max1.
  • Mimicgo. Mimicgo is not French but can speak French fluently.
  • Orochi.
  • peridot.
  • premacy.
  • qualic.
  • ROKKO.
  • syu.
  • toxxicu is Dragos Bajenaru? from Romania, EGF 2623.
  • xdp.
  • xiyg.
  • yongfei.
  • yuito.
  • ZYX.

Kiseido has a webpage listing [ext] Top 100 KGS Players also.


Please add if you know more about these players. --Dieter
Alphabetized according to Handle (username, ID, nick).
Ratings change, which may affect usefulness.
The KGS Teachers list may be very useful for some.


Zarlan: breakfast is ranked as 1p on KGS, not 7d.
Dieter: well, yes, the table says that, no ? Should we rather not rank him then among the strongest players ?

Fhayashi: I've heard mymy is a Korean 6-dan pro.

Zarlan (answering Dieter): No it doesn't say that. It says that he is 1p, but then it also says that Ion Florescu is 6d. Ion Florescu may be 6d, but on KGS he is 7d (7d?, but 7d none the less). Being a 7d on KGS, he should be (and is) of course on SevenDanPlayersOnKGS in precisely the same way that breakfast should not be since he is neither 7d nor ranked as 7d on KGS. Keeping him in the list since he is amongst the strongest players on KGS is a good point though (although it should be clear that he isn't 7d on KGS. Simply because he isn't.)

Dieter: Good point.


BobMcGuigan: The question mark on ranks apparently has two meanings for 7d players. One meaning is that the player hasn't firmly qualified for 7d. The other is that the player is much stronger than 7d. Look at the rating graphs of players like [ext] mymy and [ext] veggie for examples.

phenomene : In fact only the first meaning is true. A player can be charted more than 7d on his graph without having a question mark. There is an indirect connection however, because very strong players (above 7d) usually don't play with correct handicap and lose not enough games to get a solid rating. ---

jewel: RoseDuke doesn't exist on KGS anymore


Andre Engels: Updated the list, by removing several players whose handle does not exist any more, who have dropped down to 6d or 5d (in one case even 2d), or who have no rating while there is no good reason to believe they would be 7d if they had, while adding a number who were not previously there.


phenomene : 28th may, 2003. I updated the list again. A change in KGS anchors today created some new 7d.


mgoetze: DKiller72 said he is a Chinese 1p living in the US today (July 1st, 2003)


mgoetze: I've just done a major revision of the page today (July 14, 2003), since KGS introduced 8d and 9d ranks. I suppose it ought to be renamed. Also, someone might want to salvage some of the information I removed over to the KGS Teachers page.


Gilles: modified Mimicgo info (july 15 2003)

mgoetze: Hm, but you don't know where he is from? :)

Gilles: Does it matter ? ;-)


mgoetze: Hm, several new 7d and a few promotions (July 17th 2003)... did KGS just get easier or something? :) Hope it doesn't keep on changing this much.


Anonymous: lim's [ext] progress from 7k to 8d is really impressive! Is that really possible? What did happen?

mgoetze: Well I suppose he/she first came to KGS a while ago, won a game easily against someone who didn't really pose a challenge, then came back a few months later to really start playing.

kaiou Or he/she give her account to someone else, it is quite common, expecially with "important" or "famous" nick

fhayashi: I think he just read the *BEST* *GO* *BOOK*, *EVER*! Perhaps an advance copy of Charles Matthews's new book? =)


Vlad: I think jim is Lucian Deaconu.



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