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European Go Federation Professional Player, 2016 European Go Grand-Slam Champion, 2018 European Grand-Prix Champion. Mateusz Surma: 1995– 3p: European Go Federation Professional Player, 2 times European Professional Go Champion, 2 times European Go Grand-Slam Champion, Author of 9 Go books, Founder/CEO of polgote.com. Ilya Shikshin: 1990– 4p
Player Domestic Continental International Total 1: Cho Chikun Meiyo Meijin, 25th Honinbō: 71: 3: 2: 76: 2: Yuta Iyama 26th Honinbō Meiyo Kisei, Gosei, Honinbō and ...
Many of the top Go players from around the world and representatives from the major National Go Associations attended the event. Its success led to the founding of the International Go Federation on March 18, 1982, with Shizuo Asada presiding over the original 29 founding members.
A Go professional is a professional player of the game of Go. The minimum standard to acquire a professional diploma through one of the major Go organisations is very high. The competition is tremendous, and prize incentives for champion players are very large. For example, the Honinbo Tournament has a grand prize of about $350,000.
The World Amateur Go Championship (WAGC) is an international tournament for amateur Go players, held once a year since 1979. The organising body is the International Go Federation (IGF). Each participating country sends one player, although in the beginning of the contest there were multiple players from the stronger Go Countries (e.g. China ...
Xinren Wang (Shinjin-O) is a young players tournament for players under 30 and 7 dan. It is sponsored by Shanhai Qiyuan. The winner's purse is 40,000 CNY. National Go Individual; Hayago. CCTV Cup is a title sponsored by the CCTV. It is renamed China Citic Bank Cup since 2012 due to the sponsor change. The current winner's purse is 200,000 CNY.
International Go Federation (IGF) (1982) Continental. In 2021: [1] ... Turkish Go Players Association 1993 Ukraine Ukrainian Go Federation 1993 United Kingdom
Yuta Iyama Kisei, Honinbo, Meijin (井山 裕太, Iyama Yūta, born 24 May 1989) is a Japanese professional Go player. In April 2016, he became the first player in Japanese history to hold all seven major titles simultaneously. [1] In January 2018, Iyama became the first professional Go player to be awarded Japan's People's Honour Award. [2]