Juri Kuronen

Juri Kuronen

Juri Kuronen is a Finnish 6-dan, known in KGS and most other go servers as Namii.

Besides winning several local tournaments, he has represented Finland 3 times in the KPMC (in 2010 placing 9th, 2012 placing 8th and 2013 placing 15th.) He also represented Finland in the 33rd World Amateur Go Championship, finishing 7th overall.

He is one of the main teachers at the Nordic Go Academy and has participated as a teacher in the *Experience Go in China* program in 2011 and in the Nordic Go Academy Summer Camp 2013. He will repeat as a teacher for the Summer Camp in 2014. As a teacher, he likes to emphasise reading practice for improvement.

He will participate in the 1st European Pro Qualification 2014.