KGS High Dan Players
This is a list of players on KGS (the KGS Go Server) who are ranked there as 7 dan or higher, including pros. Generally, players rated with a ? are not considered, unless they have played a lot of games with proper handicap and haven't lost more than a tiny fraction leading to a [9d?] provisional rating.
EGF Ratings as of February 7, 2005.
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Pro Players
- chenyaoye is Chen Yaoye, Chinese 9-dan, 2006 LG Cup finalist.
- breakfast is Alexandre Dinerchtein from Russia, 3-dan pro in Korea, EGF 2730. Also plays rated games as backpast.
- fanhui is Fan Hui, Chinese 2-dan pro now living in France.
- echoli is Li Tianzhu, Chinese 1-dan pro. Also plays rated games as echoli2008.
- farmboy is James Kerwin, American 1-dan.
- TaranuC is Catalin Taranu, Romanian 5p (Nihon Ki In)
- guojuan is Guo Juan, former Chinese 5-dan pro now living in the Netherlands, EGF 2733.
- Hongjun is Wang Hongjun, Chinese 7-dan.
- hsienyu is Hsia Hsien Yu, Taiwanese 2-dan now living in Singapore.
- JaniceKim is Janice Kim, Korean 3-dan.
- Jennie is Jennie Shen, Chinese 2-dan.
- jujo is Jiang Zhujiu, Chinese 9-dan, younger brother of Jiang Mingjiu.
- kirara - Ogoshi Ichiro, Japanese 8-dan.
- KPRO is Kim Seong-rae, Korean 4-dan.
- Lyonweiqi is Li Ang, Chinese 3-dan.
- mingjiu Jiang Mingjiu, Chinese 7-dan.
- Mingming Yin Mingming, Chinese 1-dan.
- mjun is Mitsunaga Jyunzo?, Japanese 5-dan.
- mumu is Feng Yun, Chinese 9-dan now living in the USA.
- pala, palo is Yang Yilun, Chinese 7-dan, also YilunYang.
- redrose is Svetlana Shikshina from Russia, 3-dan in Korea, EGF 2695.
- shuyi is Liu Yajie, Chinese 2-dan.
- vic1000 is Chun Poong Jho, Korean 8-dan.
- wangyang is Wang Yang, Chinese 5-dan.
- yangshihai is Yang Shihai, Chinese 8-dan.
- YilunYang is Yang Yilun, Chinese 7-dan. Also plays as pala and palo.
- youngil is An Young Gil, Korean 7d
- YSYoon is Yun Yeong-seon, Korean 5-dan.
- zsi is Diana Koszegi, Hungarian 1-dan.
9 dans (including 9d? with a rank graph higher than 9d)
- bigbadwolf is Zhi Yuan (Andy) Liu, 18yr-old AGA 8d, winner of 2006 us open, goes to freshman year at NYU-
- bin7674 is Seok-Bin Cho, Korean 7-dan.
- cziffra is Noguchi Motoki french 7d also motoki
- gentlerain is Jang Bi, a former Korean insei who now lived in the USA briefly.
- greenpig, Lee Min Ho from Korea. 7 dan in Europe.
- habanero, a Japanese player.
- HCSH a Chinese amateur 6d. Also uses the account HFL.
- MayaGo?, rarely playing unknown player
- MilanMilan is Liu Yuanbo, 2p from China
- mouton112, a Chinese player.
- qsefthuko, a Chinese player.
- RustySword is Oh Chi-Min, Korean 6d, teacher at Lee Ki Bong's International Baduk Academy.
- sariyu, still undefeated. Says he is a Japanese 7d amateur. Some strong players think he is a top Japanese pro.
- smartrobot, is Jin Jing or Jack Jin 2p, also plays as jackJin 2p?
- shinyoung
- thekuma?, rank graph shows strong 9 dan from July to December of 2007
- toughguy, a Korean player.
- unknownplr a.k.a. yipingshui is Bao Yun, Chinese 6d from Beijing.
- yuukikki, a Japanese player. Supposedly same player as reyuu and yukinosuke.
8 dans
- aggressive, Kwon Hae-kwang, a Korean 7d teaching at the International Baduk Academy.
- Cornel is Cornel Burzo from Romania, EGF 2596.
- forgo is an AGA 7d.
- kghin, a Chinese 5d, born december 1997.
- khuang is Ke Huang, AGA 8d
- LeeKiBong is Prof. Lee Ki Bong, founder of the International Baduk Academy
- Maple.
- maru16, a Japanese player.
- matsumoto, a Japanese 6d.
- motoki is Noguchi Motoki from Japan, currently living in France, EGF 2625.
- nakano1515, a Japanese player.
- papipusyu, a Japanese player.
- premacy, a Japanese player.
- rapyuta, a Japanese player.
- reyuu, a Japanese player.
- roln111, Ilja Shikshin
- Solaris is Cristian Pop from Romania, EGF 2684.
- Somerville is Huiren Yang 1 Dan Pro
- syu, a Japanese player.
- takemeba William Yang. He is famous for playing a lot of SimulGo games.
- Tien, Antti Törmänen, Finnish 6 dan. Studying go as insei in Tokyo
- uro, a Japanese player.
- zl9989, a Chinese player.
7 dans
- abel, a Japanese player.
- achapo2.
- AGASSI Ondrej Silt from Czechia 6D.
- aguilar1 The famous strong player from South America (Argentina), Fernando Aguilar.
- Ai.
- aromo, Csaba Mérő 7d from Hungary.
- artem92, is Artem Kachanovskyy, (date of birth : 12.12.1992), living in Rivne (Ukraine)
- asiyanobom, a Japanese player, one of the earliest 7-dans on KGS.
- badstyle.
- bipolar, a Japanese player.
- Cirilla.
- clzj, a Chinese player.
- comet, a Japanese player.
- darkmage a.k.a. Arwen is Chen Zhaonian from China, living in the US, AGA 8d-
- dra, a Japanese player.
- fiying, a Japanese player.
- fswb is from Brasil.
- Galileo is from Italia.
- genetic.
- hodo2, a Japanese player.
- HYang is Huiren Yang, Chinese 1p living in the US.
- jim is Lucian Deaconu from Romania, EGF 2505
- kageura, a Japanese player.
- kakyoin, a Japanese player.
- kensaku.
- look, a Japanese player.
- Machi, a Chinese player, living in canada, representative for canada in 2004 wagc.
- macisajt is Pal Balogh from Hungary, EGF 2537.
- michigan24.
- minue622, Min-U Kan, a korean player
- Mimicgo. Mimicgo is not French but can speak French fluently.
- Nasdaq is from Hong Kong, now living in Sydney.
- nemuri, a Japanese player.
- obaQ, a Japanese player.
- PASSAT, a Japanese player.
- peridot, a Japanese player.
- sai2004, a Japanese player.
- sbcho. Cho SungBok?, Korean 6 dan, Speaks English, German and Korean of course.
- schneider, a Chinese player.
- shin0330, a Japanese player.
- shiryuu, a Japanese player.
- simonbr from Brasil.
- SlowLife?, a Japanese player.
- supertjc, a Singaporean player.
- takimiya (had a former account named Plutoh?).
- tchinkiz.
- toxxicu is Dragos Bajenaru from Romania, EGF 2613.
- twoeye the "KGS-cat"
- Welvang, is Tanguy Le Calvé
The KGS website hosts a listing of the Top 100 KGS Players.
tderz: from http://www.seattlegocenter.org/namt/Players.php
I have not cross-checked against above list:
- Name AGA # KGS Log On
- Martin Mueller 5450 ExBoss? - noted Computer Go researcher (Explorer, Fuego)
- Steve Stringfellow 2894 *dropped*
- Seung Hyun Hong 2998 koram
- Jung Hoon Lee 5806 jhlee
- I-Han Lui 3616 VVV
- Eric Lui 7673 TheOne?
- Zhaonian Chen 11331 zchen
- Yuan Zhou 4566 yzhou
- Jim Huang 9827
- Wei Chen 7944 wabbit
- Sorin Gherman 10100 sorin
- Jie Liang 11018 gustofgo
- Landon Brownell 11948 LBuni - 7D youth, also chess master
Landon Brownell, I regret to say, is dead. http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9323/505/
- Hosuk Yi 2042 kcaly22
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.
On http://orb.at/top100games.html is a list of games from the last top 100 KGS players. It's generated 8 times a day (all 3hours) and there is also an archive with games from the previous months.