Fan Hui
Fan Hui (樊麾 / Fán Huī, born 1981) is a naturalized French 2-dan professional Go player, originally from China. Fan has been a resident in France since November 2000.
Fan learned to play at age 7 in Xi'an and became a 1-dan professional at 16. He started to study in Toulouse in September 2002.
Fan was the winner of the Paris (2001/2002/2003/2004/2005/2008) and Amsterdam tournaments. He won the EGC 2013 tournament with a 10/10 result, and won the title of European Champion in 2014 and 2015
In 2005 he became the official instructor of the French Go Federation as a fulltime contractor on their payroll, a role which ended in 2014.
Plays on KGS as fanhui. A section of his book on shape l'âme du go is available in English on SL!
External links
- Go Base player biography
- Biography from the Strasbourg Go club (in french)
- Games: http://www.go-paris.org/ressources.php
- Pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Go problems mailing list setup by Fan Hui
- European Go Database profile
- YouTube channel