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Seven-Dan Players on KGS
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This is a list of players on KGS (the Kiseido Go Server) who are ranked there as 7 dan, though some may chart higher.

 Handle      Country         Identity
 breakfast   Russia/Korea    Alexandre Dinerchtein (1p)
 Chinese     China?
 client      Romania         Lucian Deaconu? (5d)
 Diplomat    Russia          Oleg Mezhov? (6d)
 DKiller72                   Yupei Xiong
 dra
 every
 fafa        France          Farid Ben Malek (6d)
 farmboy     USA             James Kerwin (1p)
 fiying
 fj          Germany         Franz-Josef Dickhut (6d)
 fortune
 Galileo
 gege        China           Feng Yun (9p female)
 gentil      France          Nguyen Minh-Quy? (4d)
 gongon
 guest100
 guojuan     Netherlands     Guo Juan (7d, former 5p China)
 Haboru
 halala
 jef         France          Jeff Séailles? (5d)
 jungleboy   Canada          James Li?
 kamew
 kent1       Japan           Matsumoto
 K9999
 kirara      Japan           Japanese 7d
 LBL
 lee         UK              Li Shen? (4d)
 lesio       Poland          Leszek Soldan (6d)
 lim         Korea
 macisajt
 maths       Korea/USA       Jooyoung Kim?
 Moonlight
 motoki      France          Noguchi Motoki (Japanese living in Tours, France)
 mymy                        rumored to be a professional
 N
 nase        Japan/France    Toru Imamura? (4d)
 neosto                      (charts 9d)
 outdated
 pala        USA             Yang Yilun (7p Chinese Go Association)
 palo        USA             Yang Yilun (7p Chinese Go Association)
 pro1dan
 qualic
 qubeley     China
 redrose     Russia/Korea    Svetlana Shikshina (1p)
 ROKKO
 ryu2
 shoutan
 smallrain                   Wang Lu
 snowman     Finland         Vesa Laatikainen? (5d)
 Solaris     Romania         Cristian Pop (7d)
 stogon
 sujun       Japan
 sunceng
 syu
 tartrate                    (unbeaten, charts 12d)
 TESCO
 toxxicu     Romania         Dragos Bajenaru? (6d)
 Tsurukame   Romania         Ion Florescu? (6d)
 unkx80      Singapore       Tan Yee Fan
 update
 uro         Japan
 veggie      USA             Thomas Hsiang (8.5 dan AGA)
 vic1000     Korea           Chun Poong Jho (7p)
 WotGorilla
 xiyg
 xyl
 Yunapon324
 Zend        Japan           (charts 13d)

Kiseido has a webpage listing [ext] Top 100 KGS Players also.


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.


Zarlan: breakfast is ranked as 1p on KGS, not 7d.
Dieter: well, yes, the table says that, no ? Should we rather not rank him then among the strongest players ?

Fhayashi: I've heard mymy is a Korean 6-dan pro.

Zarlan (answering Dieter): No it doesn't say that. It says that he is 1p, but then it also says that Ion Florescu is 6d. Ion Florescu may be 6d, but on KGS he is 7d (7d?, but 7d none the less). Being a 7d on KGS, he should be (and is) of course on SevenDanPlayersOnKGS in precisely the same way that breakfast should not be since he is neither 7d nor ranked as 7d on KGS. Keeping him in the list since he is amongst the strongest players on KGS is a good point though (although it should be clear that he isn't 7d on KGS. Simply because he isn't.)

Dieter: Good point.


BobMcGuigan: The question mark on ranks apparently has two meanings for 7d players. One meaning is that the player hasn't firmly qualified for 7d. The other is that the player is much stronger than 7d. Look at the rating graphs of players like [ext] mymy and [ext] veggie for examples.

phenomene : In fact only the first meaning is true. A player can be charted more than 7d on his graph without having a question mark. There is an indirect connection however, because very strong players (above 7d) usually don't play with correct handicap and lose not enough games to get a solid rating. ---

jewel: RoseDuke doesn't exist on KGS anymore


Andre Engels: Updated the list, by removing several players whose handle does not exist any more, who have dropped down to 6d or 5d (in one case even 2d), or who have no rating while there is no good reason to believe they would be 7d if they had, while adding a number who were not previously there.


phenomene : 28th may, 2003. I updated the list again. A change in KGS anchors today created some new 7d.



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