Kobayashi Chizu
Kobayashi Chizu (小林 千寿, born 1954) is a Nihon Ki-in female professional Go player who reached 5-dan in 1978.
Kobayashi was a pupil of Kitani Minoru. One of four children, three of whom are professional players: Kobayashi Chizu Kobayashi Satoru and Kobayashi Kenji.
Kobayashi lost as a finalist in Female Honinbo 1976, 1977, 1978.
Women's Kakusei 1989.
Kobayashi Chizu's advice to amateur on tsumego is reported at GoDiscussions.
Bill: Kobayashi sensei visited Santa Fe, NM, around 1980. A friend and I taxied her around. She is muy simpatica. :-)
xue: She now resides in the french part of Switzerland, and often visits the local go clubs.
maruseru: Since March 2007 Kobayashi Chizu-sensei is living in Vienna, Austria, for one year, sponsored by the Government of Japan. If we can build up a sizable Go community within this year, she could stay beyond 2008.
She already has had a great impact on Go in Vienna. She teaches at prestigious schools, has organized a Go course at the Japanese Cultural Center in Vienna, and has been the impetus for the Austrian Go Federation to open a club, GO7.
Kobayashi-sensei has asked Takemiya Masaki 9p and Kenmochi Jo 7p to hold a workshop in Vienna in early January 2008.
As cultural advisor for the Japanese government in Europe she also travels to other European countries to spread Go. Her efforts are especially targetted at promoting youth Go.