Guo Juan

Guo Juan (traditional: 郭鵑; simplified: 郭鹃; born 1960) is a former Chinese 5-dan professional, former student of Jiang Mingjiu, who lives in the Netherlands and, amongst others, gives Go lessons over the Internet. She now has Dutch citizenship and and has EGF rating 2733 (amateur 7d) as of July, '09. She is one of the strongest players of Europe. Guo Juan frequently attends the annual US Go Congress.

She has won the Dutch Championships every time she played in it, from 1996 through 2002. Since 2003, she no longer competes in it. In all those years, she lost just two games (out of 56) in the tournament ( http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/euro/dutchchamps.html).

Tournament Victories

• 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Dutch Championship
• 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 European Championship
• 1994, 1995, 1996 Open European Championship
• 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998 European Ing Cup
• 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000 European qualification for the Fujitsu World Championships
• 1995, 1997, 1998 Amsterdam
• 1996, 1998, 1999 Hamburg
• 1995, 1997, 1999 London
• 1997, 1999 Paris
• and a large number of smaller tournaments.

Books by Guo Juan

• The World of Chinese Go, published by Kiseido,
• All About Joseki with co-author, with Jiang Mingjiu, published by Slate and Shell, and
• Chinesische Meisterpartien (Chinese Mastergames), published by Brett und Stein Verlag in German. The book contains six extensive game analysis from the Chinese title matches of Mingren and Tianyuan.

Lessons

• Audio Go Lessons,
• Guo Juan's Internet Go School. and
• Ing Goe Internet Class http://internetgoschool.com/ing.vhtml every Sunday on KGS with Jiang Mingjiu The schedule for these lecture is available. In each lecture Guo Juan emphasies a few central priniciples. Certain priniciples recur in many of the lectures. Among these are:
  • Don't run alone
  • Don't walk behind
• game reviews at GTL: http://gtl.xmp.net/members/info?p_key=1441&pseudo=guo