Ben Mantle
Ben Mantle is a 5 Dan Go player from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was born October 17, 1989 and has played Go for over 3 and a half years. He recently studied for 5 months at King's Baduk Education Center in Hoengsong, South Korea, a school for foreign players that has since moved to Seoul, then closed down. Kim Sung-rae has or will soon open a school in Hungary.
Aliases: RamenBoya? on KGS, Hylian on OroBaduk, Alakazam on Go Discussions and zelda on http://baduk.pro. Ben Mantle has a new alias - Yukio. He has chosen this as a pen name, it is the first name of the main character in his future novel, Curse 1000. The full name of the character is Hyouga氷河(surname) Yukioゆきお(given name).
Tournament Results:
Alakazam has played in few tournaments. Best result was 3rd place (4W 2L) in the 5-Dan 'A' division at the 2010 Canadian Open Go Championship held in Vancouver. Second best was a 4-2 result registered as 2 Dan and 2nd place in Pair Go at the 2008 Canadian Open held in Quebec city.
Place | Rating | Certification | Alias | |
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Canada | 5 Dan | CGA | ||
Korea | 4 Dan | KBC | ||
Japan | 6 Dan | Gangneung World Youth Baduk Festival | ||
KGS | 5 Dan | KGS | RamenBoya? | |
WBaduk | 7 Dan | WBaduk/OroBaduk | Hylian |
1 Dan | 2 Dan | 3 Dan | 4 Dan | 5 Dan |
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1 Year | 1 Year 6 Months | 2 Years 3 Months | 2 Years 6 Months | 3 Years 1 Month |
Canadian Rating: http://www.go-canada.org/documents/Memb-02f.pdf
RamenBoya?'s KGS Games: http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=ramenboya
KGS Player Statistics: http://kgs.gosquares.net/index.rhtml.en?id=ramenboya
Alakazam was first inspired by Hikaru no Go, a Japanese Anime about Go that he really likes and has watched several times through. His first encounter with Go was in his school's Anime Club in 2005, but it was not until a year later that he learned the rules, which was on KGS.
Alakazam is a proud member of University of Toronto Go Club (although he is not a student)
Teachers:
Alakazam was shown the most elementary of basics by DonClaboni? on KGS, who kindly explained for a good hour or two, to great success.
Alakazam's first teacher was Jeffrey Fung, a Canadian 6 Dan player. He took lessons from Jeff for some months, and this was his time of most rapid improvement, moving from beginner to 1 Kyu in under a year.
When Jeff was out of Toronto for some time, Alakazam moved from 1 Kyu to 1 Dan with the help of Eddy Zhang, a Chinese 4 Dan who was visiting Canada from China. They met at a York University Go club meeting.
When Alakazam was Canadian 3 Dan, he started playing Go nearly every week at James Sedwick's home, usually playing James, but sometimes other players who attended as well. James is the president of the Canadian Go Association, and 6 Dan. They started playing with three stones of handicap, and when Alakazam improved to 4 Dan, they moved down to two. Since Alakazam's return from 5 months of studying in Korea, they now play on Tagai-sen.
Alakazam used to post videos on Youtube as a series called 'Baduk Legend', under the user name GoWeiQiBadukIgo?, but hasn't posted any videos in a long time.
He also used to keep a Go blog at http://honinbou.blogspot.com called "Dreams of a Go Player", but now he only posts content on Facebook -->
http://facebook.com/GoPlayer, and his new LiveJournal? -->
http://ramenboya.livejournal.com called Duelist Domain.
The reasons for this title are two: His Go friend, Mimi often says "Wanna' duel?", almost as though suggesting a game of "Yu-Gi-Oh". 2: This Livejournal is about a few other games besides Go (for example, video games), although it is most likely going to become a completely Go-related LJ in the future, if not die off.
[ http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v647/236/76/504334783/n504334783_13(Then 4 Dan), Michael Liang 5 Dan, Jeffrey Fung 6 Dan
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