WChang Hao is a professional Go player. He is a 9 dan Go player from China. He is China's best player of the 1990s and one of the best in the world. Growing up he was a prodigy in China, he has won many titles, including three international champions. He is the best friend of Lee Chang-ho, whom he most recently defeated in the final of the 7th Chunlan Cup. Some of his hobbies include playing football, swimming, and traveling. He is married to Zhang Xuan, who is also a Go player.
WFan Hui is a Chinese-born French Go player. Becoming a professional Go player in 1996, Fan moved to France in 2000 and became the coach of the French national Go team in 2005. He was the champion of the European Go Championship in 2013, 2014 and 2015. As of 2015, he is ranked as a 2 dan professional. He additionally won the 2016 European Professional Go Championship.
WOskar Korschelt was a German chemist and engineer who introduced the Asian strategy board game of Go to Europe, especially to Germany and Austria.
WCsaba Mérő is an amateur Go player.
WNie Weiping is a professional Go player.
WRin Kaihō or Lin Haifeng is a professional Taiwanese Go player who made his name in Japan. He is, along with Cho Chikun, Kobayashi Koichi, Otake Hideo, Takemiya Masaki and Kato Masao, considered one of the 'Six Supers' that dominated Japanese Go world in the last three decades of the twentieth century.
WSeo Bong-soo is a professional Go player.
WCătălin Țăranu, is one of the very few professional players of the board game of Go from outside Asia.
WYoo Changhyuk is a professional Go player in South Korea.