O Meien

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O Meien's Nihon Ki-in photograph

O Meien (王 銘エン Ō Meien), called Wang Mingyuan (王铭琬 Pinyin: Wáng Míngwǎn) in Chinese, is a Taiwanese-born (22 November 1961) 9-dan professional Go player active in Japan.

O won the Honinbo title in 2000 and held it the following year before losing it to Kato Masao in 2002. O took the Oza title from Cho Chikun in December 2002.

A pupil of Go Seigen, O has an interesting style based on quick development in the fuseki and on the use of influence. He is a very determined fighter, with plenty of kiai.

[ext] http://gobase.org/information/players/?pp=O%20Meien

It's Wang Mingyuan in Chinese. The last (rarish) character can be read wan or yuan, but Roy Schmidt met him and reports it was yuan.John Fairbairn : ViciousMan: Although pinyin goes for Wan, yes, Taiwan uses a different dialect, so it likely is "Yuan" in Taiwanese.

O Meien's non-standard opening moves are called "meienisms". -- Vesa Laatikainen


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