Nathan
2 Dan player from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and current President of the Manitoba Go Association ( http://go.wact.ca)
Here's a link of my game reviews for The Go Teaching Ladder:
http://gtl.xmp.net/members/info?p_key=524&pseudo=Nathan
I am fortunate to have befriended a professional level Go player. Here is his homepage: http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~jingyang/
Favorite go players to study: Go Seigen (of course!), Kato Masao and Shusaku.
Recommended English Go books - Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go, Invincible - The games of Shusaku, and The Breakthrough to Shodan. After thorough study of Invincible and Breakthrough, I went from about 2-3kyu to Shodan.
One last bit of advice - be patient, do not be greedy and study lots of easy life and death and tesuji problems!
To all my past teachers - Armin, Carlos, Barry, Eric, Dave, Hu, Mr. Rho and now Jing - I am eternally grateful. I will do my best to pass on all that I have learned from each of you.