Go players

A list of well-known champion players of the game of go:

• Dosaku[?] (1645-1702) Greatest player of the Edo period.
• Shusaku Honinbo (1829-1862) Greatest player of the 19th century - the "golden age" of go.
• Shuei[?] (1854-1907) 17th and again 19th head of the Honinbo house. Very active and innovative in the 1890s.
• Shusai[?] (1874-1940) The last inheritor of "Honinbo" title, and founder of the Nihon-Kiin[?].
• Go Seigen (born 1914) 呉清源 (Wu Qingyuan in Chinese), is considered the greatest player of the 20th century.
• Kitani Minoru[?] (1909-1975) Great friend and rival to Go Seigen. Go and Kitani were the vanguard of the Shin-fuseki or "New Opening", a great advance in go theory
• Sakata Eio[?] (born 1920) "Razor Sakata", the "Master of myoushu" (brilliant move) former longtime holder of most championship titles with 64.
• Rin Kaiho[?] (born 1942)
• Kato Masao[?] (born 1947) Master of attack style.
• Yoda Norimoto[?] (born 1966)
• Ishida Yoshio[?] (born 1948) Youngest ever Honinbo winner and one of the strongest players of the 1970s. TV commentator.
• Takemiya Masaki[?] (born 1951) 武宮正樹 Famous for his 'cosmic style', aiming for territory in the center of the board rather than the sides
• Kobayashi Koichi[?] (born 1952) 小林光一 Third most titles with 55.
• Cho Hunhyun[?] (born 1953) (조훈현 ; 曺薰鉉) Perhaps the second strongest player in the world, after his former pupil Lee Changho.
• Cho Chikun[?] (born 1956) (조치훈 ; 趙治勳 Cho Chihun[?] in Korean)Among the best players of the last century - passed Sakata in late 2002 for most titles with 66.
• O Rissei[?] (born 1958)
• Rui Naiwei[?] (born 1963) First woman to attain rank of 9-dan
• Michael Redmond[?] (born 1963) First non-Asian (American) to attain rank of 9-dan. TV commentator.
• Yoo Changhyuk[?] (born 1966) (유창혁 ; 劉昌赫) Third strongest in the world.
• Yi Chang-ho[?] (born 1975) (이창호 ; 李昌鎬) Yi Chang-ho is generally considered the strongest player in the world. His name is commonly written Lee Changho
• Yamashita Keigo[?] (born 1978)
• Zhang Xu[?] (born 1980) (Cho U[?] in Japanese)
• Lee Sedol[?] (born 1983) (이세돌) Despite his low rank (3-dan) "Yi Se-tol" is considered one of the top few players in the world.

External links

• Sensei's Library:ProfessionalPlayersGoStyles (http://senseis.xmp.net/?ProfessionalPlayersGoStyles)
• Gobase.org (http://www.gobase.org)