John Fairbairn
English Go translator and knowledgeable historian. Co-producer (with T. Mark Hall) and vendor of the "Games of Go on Disk" collections (GoGoD).
More information about his contributions to both Go and Shogi may be found on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fairbairn_(writer)
On April the 17th 1997 John Fairbairn started a thread on rec.games.go named The Big Game: http://gobase.org/studying/biggame/
Author of two series of books: