Go Seigen

Wu Qingyuan (??? W? Q?ngyu?n or Wu2 Qing1 yuan2, born May 19, 1914) known to the world as the Japanese Go Seigen, is considered by many to be the greatest player of the game of go in the 20th century.

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He was born in Fujian province, in China, and moved to Japan in 1928. When he naturalized as a Japanese citizen, he used the name Go Izumi (?? pronounced in Japanese.) He later returned to his old name. His surname ? (pinyin W? or Wu2) reads the same as ? in Japanese. As a result, some Japanese said he was born to play go.

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Go Seigen is commonly considered to be among the best to have ever played the game. He beat the leading players of Japan in jubangos (10-game tournaments), including winners of the Honinbo Tournament, even forcing them down to handicaps.http://senseis.xmp.net/?GoSeigen

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Mr. Teramoto, Go Seigen's manager, has said " is one of three go players who will still be famous several hundred years from now. The other two are Dosaku (1677–1702) and Shusaku (1829–1862)." http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/special/goseigen.html

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He is well known, along with Kitani Minoru, as being one of the leading exponents of the shin fuseki, a period of experimentation in the opening of the game that broke away from traditional moves. Go attributed some of his ideas to Honinbo Shuei, for whom he had much respect.http://gobase.org/studying/articles/mioch/goseigen/interview-3.html

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