Guo Juan

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Guo Juan (b. 1960) is a former Chinese 5-dan professional, former student of Jiang Mingjiu, who lives in the Netherlands and, amongst others, gives Go lessons over the Internet. She now has Dutch citizenship and plays as a 7 dan amateur (being one of the strongest players of Europe).

She has won the Dutch Championships since the first time she played there in 1996, except that of 2003 in which she chose not to compete. In all those years, she lost just two games (out of 56) in the tournament ([ext] http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/euro/dutchchamps.html).

She was European Champion in 1994-1997, and in 1994-1996 also open European Champion (the open European Champion is the winner of the European Championship, the European Champion the first European player). Other important wins were the European Ing Cup in 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1998, the Fujitsu Finals (European qualification for the Fujitsu World Championships) in 1994, 1995, 1998 and 2000. She also won in the tournaments of Paris (1997, 1999), London (1997, 1998, 1999), Amsterdam (1995, 1997, 1998) and Hamburg (1996, 1998, 1999) and a large number of smaller tournaments.

She is the author of The World of Chinese Go, published by Kiseido.

You can find her homepage [ext] here.


Guo Juan and Jiang Mingjiu are currently conducting go lectures every Sunday on KGS in the room entitled Ing Goe Internet Class. The [ext] schedule for these lecture is available. In each lecture Guo Juan emphasies a few central priniciples.

  • 17 October 2004: unimportant vs important stones; walking fast / not pushing from behind

Kjeld Petersen: She gave som advice of how to play and what to take care of. Here is a copy of my notes from that day.

  • Look where territory is going to be, and walk there
  • When stones are next to each other hane or nobi, but ahead
  • When we have 2 weak groups. Don't fight for eyes in the same area, but live apartly
  • Do not escape alone. Take your opponent with you. Take away eye shape, but don't make more weak groups
  • When we are weak, we make solid shape first. If we are strong then attack
  • Before killing 2 ore more stone, ask your self: "Are the cutting stones important?"
  • When stones are important, we have to connect
  • Invade with a good reason. Open shape can't make many points. So they are not interresting to invade.
  • Make a plan with your opponent. Don't play against ourselvs.

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