KGS High Dan Players

This is a list of players on KGS (the KGS Go Server) who are ranked there as 7 dan or higher, including pros. Generally, players rated with a ? are not considered, unless they have played a lot of games with proper handicap and haven't lost more than a tiny fraction leading to a [9d?] provisional rating.

EGF Ratings as of February 7, 2005.

Table of contents Pro Players 9 dans (including 9d? with a rank graph higher than 9d) 8 dans 7 dans

Pro Players

• artem92 is Artem Kachanovskyj, Ukrainian EGF professional
• bigbadwolf is Zhi Yuan Liu, aka Andy Liu, American professional
• breakfast is Alexandre Dinerchtein from Russia, 3-dan pro in Korea, EGF 2730. Also plays rated games as backpast.
• fanhui is Fan Hui, Chinese 2-dan pro now living in France.
• farmboy is James Kerwin, American 1-dan.
• TaranuC is Catalin Taranu, Romanian 5p (Nihon Ki In)
• guojuan is Guo Juan, former Chinese 5-dan pro now living in the Netherlands, EGF 2733.
• Hongjun is Wang Hongjun, Chinese 7-dan.
• hsienyu is Hsia Hsien Yu, Taiwanese 2-dan who used to live in Singapore.
• JaniceKim is Janice Kim, Korean 3-dan.
• Jennie is Jennie Shen, Chinese 2-dan.
• kirara - Ogoshi Ichiro, Japanese 8-dan.
• KPRO is Kim Seong-rae, Korean 4-dan.
• Lyonweiqi is Li Ang, Chinese 3-dan.
• MilanMilan is Liu Yuanbo, 2p from China
• mingjiu Jiang Mingjiu, Chinese 7-dan.
• Mingming Yin Mingming, Chinese 1-dan.
• mjun is Mitsunaga Junzo, Japanese 5-dan.
• mumu is Feng Yun, Chinese 9-dan now living in the USA.
• pala, palo is Yang Yilun, Chinese 7-dan, also YilunYang.
• redrose is Svetlana Shikshina from Russia, 3-dan in Korea, EGF 2695.
• roln111, Ilja Shikshin, EGF professional
• shuyi is Liu Yajie, Chinese 2-dan.
• Somerville is Huiren Yang, Chinese professional now living in California. He was also listed with the account HYang.
• Tien, Antti Törmänen, Finnish Nihon Ki-in professional
• wangyang is Wang Yang, Chinese 5-dan.
• Welvang, French EGF professional Tanguy Le Calvé
• yangshihai is Yang Shihai, Chinese 8-dan.
• YilunYang is Yang Yilun, Chinese 7-dan. Also plays as pala and palo.
• youngil is An Young Gil, Korean 7d
• YSYoon is Yun Yeong-seon, Korean 5-dan.
• zsi is Diana Koszegi, Hungarian 1-dan.

9 dans (including 9d? with a rank graph higher than 9d)

• bin7674 is Seok-Bin Cho, Korean 7-dan.
• cziffra is Noguchi Motoki, French 7d, also motoki
• Dfeldmann_is Denis Feldmann
• gentlerain is Jang Bi, a former Korean insei who now lived in the USA briefly.
• HCSH a Chinese amateur 6d. Also uses the account HFL.
• kghin, is Chi-hin Chan, a Chinese 6d from Hong Kong, born december 1997.
• mouton112, a Chinese player.
• qsefthuko, a Chinese player.
• RustySword is Oh Chi-Min, Korean 6d, teacher at Lee Ki Bong's International Baduk Academy.
• smartrobot, is Jin Jing or Jack Jin 2p, also plays as jackJin 2p
• thekuma, rank graph shows strong 9 dan from July to December of 2007
• unknownplr a.k.a. yipingshui is Bao Yun, Chinese 6d from Beijing.
• yuukikki, a Japanese player. Supposedly same player as reyuu and yukinosuke.

8 dans

• aggressive, Kwon Hae-kwang, a Korean 7d teaching at the International Baduk Academy.
• Cornel is Cornel Burzo from Romania, EGF 2596.
• forgo is an AGA 7d.
• khuang is Ke Huang, AGA 8d
• LeeKiBong is Prof. Lee Ki Bong, founder of the International Baduk Academy
• maru16, a Japanese player.
• matsumoto, a Japanese 6d.
• motoki is Noguchi Motoki from Japan, currently living in France, EGF 2625.
• nakano1515, a Japanese player.
• oysy
• papipusyu, a Japanese player.
• premacy, a Japanese player.
• reyuu, a Japanese player.
• Solaris is Cristian Pop from Romania, EGF 2684.
• takemeba William Yang. He is famous for playing a lot of Simultaneous Go games.
• zl9989, a Chinese player.

7 dans

• abel, a Japanese player.
• achapo2.
• aguilar1 The famous strong player from South America (Argentina), Fernando Aguilar.
• Ai.
• aromo, Csaba Mérő 7d from Hungary.
• asiyanobom, a Japanese player, one of the earliest 7-dans on KGS.
• badstyle.
• bipolar, a Japanese player.
• Cirilla.
• clzj, a Chinese player.
• comet, a Japanese player.
• darkmage a.k.a. Arwen is Chen Zhaonian from China, living in the US, AGA 8d-
• dra, a Japanese player.
• ebeetles, some random kid
• fiying, a Japanese player.
• Frozensoul is Christopher Sagner, 28yr-old AGA 6d
• fswb is from Brasil.
• Galileo is from Italia.
• genetic.
• hodo2, a Japanese player.
• jim is Lucian Deaconu from Romania, EGF 2505
• kageura, a Japanese player.
• kakyoin, a Japanese player.
• kensaku.
• look, a Japanese player.
• Machi, a Chinese player, living in canada, representative for canada in 2004 wagc.
• macisajt is Pal Balogh from Hungary, EGF 2537.
• michigan24.
• minue622, Min-U Kan, a korean player
• Mimicgo. Mimicgo is not French but can speak French fluently.
• Nasdaq is from Hong Kong, now living in Sydney.
• nemuri, a Japanese player.
• obaQ, a Japanese player.
• Paige is Paige Edict, Twitch streamer.
• PASSAT, a Japanese player.
• peridot, a Japanese player.
• sai2004, a Japanese player.
• sbcho. Cho SungBok?, Korean 6 dan, Speaks English, German and Korean of course.
• schneider, a Chinese player.
• shin0330, a Japanese player.
• shiryuu, a Japanese player.
• simonbr from Brasil.
• SlowLife, a Japanese player.
• supertjc, a Singaporean player.
• takimiya (had a former account named Plutoh?).
• tchinkiz.
• toxxicu is Dragos Bajenaru from Romania, EGF 2613.
• twoeye the "KGS-cat"

The KGS website hosts a listing of the Top 100 KGS Players.

tderz: from http://www.seattlegocenter.org/namt/Players.php
I have not cross-checked against above list:

• Name AGA # KGS Log On
• Martin Mueller 5450 ExBoss? - noted Computer Go researcher (Explorer, Fuego)
• Steve Stringfellow 2894 *dropped*
• Seung Hyun Hong 2998 koram
• Jung Hoon Lee 5806 jhlee
• I-Han Lui 3616 VVV
• Eric Lui 7673 TheOne
• Zhaonian Chen 11331 zchen
• Yuan Zhou 4566 yzhou
• Jim Huang 9827
• Wei Chen 7944 wabbit
• Sorin Gherman 10100 sorin
• Jie Liang 11018 gustofgo
• Landon Brownell 11948 LBuni - 7D youth, also chess master

Landon Brownell, I regret to say, is dead. http://main.uschess.org/content/view/9323/505/

• Hosuk Yi 2042 kcaly22

Please add if you know more about these players. --Dieter
Alphabetized according to Handle (username, ID, nick).
Ratings change, which may affect usefulness.
The KGS Teachers list may be very useful for some.

On http://orb.at/top100games.html is a list of games from the last top 100 KGS players. It's generated 8 times a day (all 3hours) and there is also an archive with games from the previous months.