Professional Participants
Pro List
Professional players enrich the Go Congress with their teaching. Each day professional players will be available to analyze U.S. Open games, give lectures, play simultaneous games, and socialize. We are expecting nine professionals sponsored by the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Go Associations, as well as a similar number of professional players based in North America. The full list is taking shape, but for now we can confirm the following participants:
Heyang ZHOU, 9 dan
Yasuhiro NAKANO, 9 dan
Myungwan KIM, 9 dan
Tianfeng FANG, 8 dan
Hyunghwan KIM, 8 dan
Yoonyoung, KIM, 8 dan
Toshifumi MIZUMA, 7 dan
Yilun YANG, 7 dan
Mingjiu JIANG, 7 dan
Yuto TAJIRI, 5 dan
Li Li NIU, 5 dan
Hai LI, 5 dan
Hajin LEE, 4 dan (retired)
Eiko NIU, 2 dan
Jennie SHEN, 2 dan
Jongho MOON, 1 dan
Eric LUI, 1 dan
Ryan LI, 1 dan
Stephanie YIN, 1 dan
In addition, Inseong HWANG, official teacher of the French Go Association, will lecture.
