Names in Go
Go is an ancient game, with well-documented history over the past 1000 years. It has also at the start of the twenty-first century more professional players spread over more countries than ever before. The world of contemporary go comprises too: amateur players, writers and publishers, researchers, programmers and Web developers, theoreticians, sponsors and organisers. Much information on them may be found in the pages listed below.
This list does not cover home pages on SL - see the HomePage keyword.
Sources
The creation of very many of these pages has generously been supported by permission of John Fairbairn of GoGoD to make use of his biographical and historical writings. Since John now considers that the usage made has gone far enough, please do not post to SL any further material extracted from or derived from the GoGoD CD-ROM.
The yearbooks published by the Nihon Ki-in, Hankuk Kiwon and Zhongguo Qiyuan have short biographies, in the respective languages Japanese, Korean and Chinese. There are also official web sites.
In English Jan van der Steen's GoBase Biography Overview and GoBase Biography Search. The Gobase pages on pro players give some career statistics.
Finding people pages on Sensei's Library
- The best way to find people pages on Sensei's Library is to search at the Advanced Find Page with the Keyword "People".
- List of Korean names (korean professional players)
- List of Chinese Names (chinese professional players)
- List of Japanese Names (japanese professional players)
- List of Taiwanese professionals
- Western Professionals (other professional players)
- Prodigy, Strong Non Prodigy, Women (other indices of professional players)
- Top Amateur Players By Country
- Home Pages for the pages where the builders and users of Sensei's Library introduce themselves
Names are given here with surname first. This is the usual order for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese names. Sometimes there is a commonly used alternative name, or alternative spelling, in which case this is given in parentheses.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[1] A
[2] B
[3] C
[4] D
[5] E
[6] F
- Fairbairn, John
- Fan Xiping (Fan Shixun)
- Furuyama Kazunari
[7] G
- Gennan Inseki Gen'an Inseki
- Goertz, Ulrich
- Gu Shuiru
- Guo Tisheng
[8] H
- Harada Minoru
- Hattori Yusetsu
- Hayashi Genbi
- Hayashi Monnyusai
- Hayashi Yutaka
- Hayashi Yutaro
- Heo Yeong-ho
- Hong Min-p'yo
- Hong, Sung-Hwa
- Huang Longshi (Huang Yuetian)
- Huang Yan
- Hunter, Richard
[9] I
[10] J
[11] K
- Kaku Kyushin
- Kashio Rigen
- Katsuda Eiho
- Kikuchi Yasuro
- Kim, Edward
- Kim, Janice
- Kim Ok-kyun
- Kinoshita Takao
- Kita Hakusen
- Ko Iso
- Ko Mosei
- Korschelt, Oscar
[12] L
- Lasker, Edward
- Lee, John
- Li, Jie
- Lin Yu-hsiang
[13] M
- Mattern, Jürgen
- Matthews, Charles
- Matsuda, Takao
- McGuigan, Robert
- McMahon, Lee
- Mioch, Pieter
- Mitamura Tokushiro
- Miyake Kazuo
- Miyatake Susumu
- Mori Toyokazu
[14] N
[15] O
- O Meien (Wang Mingwan)
- O Rissei (Wang Licheng)
- Ohira Kenji
- On So-chin
- Ozawa Mitsugoro
[16] P
[17] Q
[18] R
- Redmond, Michael
- Redmond, None
- Rin Kaiho (Lin Haifeng)
- Rin Yoshimi
- Rin Hiromi
- Ryu Chae-hyeong
[19] S
[20] T
- Takabe Dohei
- Takasaki Tainosuke
- Takeda Hiroyoshi
- Taoka Keiichi
- Taranu, Catalin
- Tei Meiki
- Tei Meiko
- Terry, Bob
- Tian Xiaonong
- Torii Nabejiro
- Tsuhako Genju
[21] U
[22] V
[23] W
[24] X
[25] Y
- Yahata Kyousuke
- Yamazaki Sotosaburo
- Yang Huiren
- Yang Jinhua
- Yang Shihai
- Yang Yilun
- Yasui Chitoku
- Yo Kagen