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Jon Diamond
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Former British champion. See [ext] http://britgo.org/bchamp/history.html for his part in the early days of go in the UK.

Was once reported as having died. Luckily this has proved not to be true.

Learnt to play Go at school in 1961 together with Peter Bloomberg using Edward Lasker's book "Go and Go Moku". Made 1-dan in 1965 after discovering the London Go Club (meeting in Neil Stein's flat at the time, then the Pontefract Castle pub).

Started the Cambridge University Go Society? (see [ext] http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cugos/) and ran it for 3 years, during which time the British Go Journal (see [ext] http://www.britgo.org/bgj/bgj.html) was created with Jon (John at the time) as editor. Issue 0 is (in)famous for not only the issue number, but also its ink stamp wielded by John Tilley giving the only colour (blue) to the name on the first page. (Diagrams were of course unachievable in those days.)

Was responsible for one of the earliest Go playing computer programs at London University - it's only claim to fame is the first computer-computer go game in 1972. My program won! (The record of the game still exists, but is not worth publishing.)

He also served on the committee of the British Go Association for a number of years.

Despite playing in the European Championship for a number of years, prior to his retirement from seriously competitive Go in 1979, his best position was only 3rd. He still plays occasionally and hopes to manage to keep the 5 dan rating, although the 6 dan certificate will remain in the safe for posterity.



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