Western Professionals

Non-Asian players that have received professional ranks from Asian professional go associations:

Name	Nationality	Pro since	Affiliation	Most recent rank (Year)	Status
Manfred Wimmer	Austria	1978	Kansai Ki-in, Japan	2 dan (1978)	deceased
James Kerwin	United States	1978	Nihon Ki-in, Japan	1 dan	teaching
Michael Redmond	United States	1981	Nihon Ki-in	9 dan (2000)	active^[1]
Janice Kim	United States	1987	Hankuk Kiwon, South Korea	3 dan (2003)	teaching
Catalin Taranu	Romania	1997	Nihon Ki-in	5 dan (2001)	teaching
Hans Pietsch	Germany	1997	Nihon Ki-in	4 dan (2000, at time of death), 6 dan (2003, posthumously)	deceased
Alexandre Dinerchtein	Russia	2002	Hankuk Kiwon	3 dan (2008)	teaching
Svetlana Shikshina	Russia	2002	Hankuk Kiwon	3 dan (2008)	teaching
Diana Koszegi	Hungary	2008	Hankuk Kiwon	1 dan (2008)	active / teaching
Joanne Missingham	Australia/Taiwan	2008	Taiwan Qiyuan, Taiwan (pro qualification through the Zhongguo Qiyuan, China)	6 dan (2012)	active
Mariya Zakharchenko	Ukraine	2012	Hankuk Kiwon	1 dan	active
Francis Meyer	United States	2014	Kansai Ki-in	1 dan	active
Antti Tormanen	Finland	2016	Nihon Ki-in	1 dan	active^[2]

Non-Asian players that have received professional ranks from Non-Asian professional go associations:

Name	Nationality	Pro since	Affiliation	Most recent rank (Year)	Status
Tanguy Le Calve	France	2019	EGF	1 dan 2019	active
Andrii Kravets	Ukraine	2017	EGF	1 dan 2017	active
Artem Kachanovskyi	Ukraine	2016	EGF	1 dan 2016	active
Eric Lui	USA	2016	AGA	2 dan 2021	active
Mateusz Surma	Poland	2015	EGF	2 dan 2019	active
Ilya Shikshin	Russia	2015	EGF	4 dan 2021	active
Ryan Li	Canada	2015	AGA	3 dan 2021	active
Pavol Lisy	Slovakia	2014	EGF	2 dan 2018	active
Ali Jabarin	Israel	2014	EGF	2 dan 2018	active
Calvin Sun	USA	2013	AGA	1 dan 2015	active
Gansheng Shi	Canada	2012	AGA	1 dan 2015	active
Andy Liu	USA	2012	AGA	1 dan 2015	active

Some of these are professionals residing outside Asia as well. Quite a few non-Asian amateur players have also been insei for a time.

[1] Active refers to activity in tournaments of the professional organisation(s). Those listed as teaching often still play in open or amateur tournaments in the US or Europe and occasionally as national or continental representatives in international championships.

[2]Newspaper announcement on Tormanen: [ext] http://mainichi.jp/articles/20151208/k00/00m/040/037000c

Western Professionals last edited by RetEsz on May 7, 2021 - 09:40

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