Benjamin Teuber

Hi! I'm 37 years old and a computer scientist living in Chemnitz, Germany. I am the current German champion. On IGS, I play as bteuber, on KGS as Ahamay.

I was born in Heidelberg, but I spent most of my life until now in Bremen, where I started to learn Go from Jochen Fassbender when I was 12. I think his good way to teach and motivate me was a big reason that people believe I would be "strong".

The other reason are my studies in Japan: As a student of the late Hans Pietsch(6p) and his teacher Kobayashi Chizu(5p), I went to Tokyo several times for study, staying there about a month each time. In autumn of 2003, I even became Insei there for the short period of 3 months

In the summer of 2005, I went to korea to study in a korean baduk school for one month together with Hwan Kuk Kang.

Starting from the autumn of 2013, I am currently training in China for 5 1/2 months.

The 2011 Amsterdam International Go Tournament was won by Benjamin Teuber who didn’t lose any of his games.

Benjamin Teuber became German Champion in 2019 after coming in 2nd in 9 of his 16 final rounds (2004-2007, 2009-2011, 2014, 2015: 2nd-4th tied).

Pages and Projects

Projects

• AI-Sensei A commercial website for high-quality cloud AI reviews

Blogs

• Diary in Japan - here I wrote about my experiences as an insei.
• In a Korean Baduk School
• /Half a Year in China - on ongoing report about my training in China.

Thoughts and Ideas

• Guide to Become Strong - everything I know about improving one's own Go
• Stone Counting Teaching Method - a comprimise between Atari-Go and the traditional way to teach beginners
• Thoughts About Go Programming - what I believe a future go-program must do.