Players｜PAIR GO WORLD CUP 2016 TOKYO

Japan Pair Go Association

Players

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Japanese representatives

Hsieh Yi Min 6dan & Iyama Yuta 9dan pair
	Hsieh Yi Min 6dan	Born in Miaoli City, Chinese Taipei on Nov. 16, 1989. Disciple of Ko Mosei (Huang Mengzheng) 9dan. Became 1dan in 2004, aged 14 years four months: youngest woman to become a professional by the regular route. Promoted to 6dan in 2012. Won the 8th Strongest Woman Player title in 2006, won the 26th Women's Honinbo title in 2007 and held it for six years in a row, earning the title of Honorary Women's Honinbo after five successive terms, and seven times overall. Won the 20th Women's Meijin in 2008, held it for nine years in a row, earning the title of Honorary Women's Meijin. Won the 13th Women's Kisei title in 2010, held it for six terms overall. Won the 3rd Aizu Central Hospital Cup in 2016. Secured the Women's Quadruple Crown. As of June 2016, has won 24 women's titles, the record.
	Iyama Yuta 9dan	Born in Osaka Prefecture on May 24, 1989. Disciple of Ishii Kunio 9dan. Became 1dan in 2002, promoted to 9dan in 2009. Won the 12th Agon Kiriyama Cup in 2005, the 34th Meijin title in 2009, the 57th NHK Cup in 2010, the 49th Judan and 37th Tengen in 2011, the 67th Honinbo, 37th Gosei and 60th Oza in 2012, the 37th Kisei in 2013 (the first player to hold six top titles simultaneously; also completing a cumulative grand slam of the top seven titles), and the 25th TV Asia title, also in 2013. Won the Professional Pair Go Championship 2014, the 54th Judan title in 2016 (first player to complete a simultaneous grand slam). In total, has won the Kisei four times, Meijin five times, Honinbo four times, Oza three times, Tengen four times, Gosei four times, and Judan three times.

Wang Jing Yi 2dan & Murakawa Daisuke 8dan pair
	Wang Jing Yi 2dan	Born in Tokyo on July 9, 1986. Became 1dan in 2008 and 2dan in 2012. Won the 2nd Aizu Central Hospital Cup in 2015. Won the Professional Pair Go Championship 2016. Father is Wang Li-chen (O Rissei 9dan).
	Murakawa Daisuke 8dan	Born in Hyogo Prefecture on December 14, 1990. Disciple of Moriyama Naoki 9dan. Became 1dan in 2002, 8dan in 2014. Won the 54th Kansai Ki-in Number One Position title in 2010, won the 36th King of the New Stars title in 2011. Won the 20th Agon Kiriyama Cup in 2013 and the 62nd Oza title in 2014. Won the Professional Pair Go Championship 2016.

Mukai Chiaki 5dan & Ichiriki Ryo 7dan pair
	Mukai Chiaki 5dan	Born in Tokyo on December 24, 1987. Disciple of Honda Sachiko 7dan. Became 1dan in 2004, 5dan in 2012. Won the 32nd Women's Honinbo title in 2013, came second in the Professional Pair Go Championship 2016.
	Ichiriki Ryo 7dan	Born in Miyagi Prefecture on June 10, 1997. Disciple of So Kofuku 9dan. Became 1dan in 2010, 7dan in 2014. Won the 8th Hiroshima Aluminium Cup Young Carp tournament in 2013. Won the 1st Globis Cup World Igo U-20 in 2014 and the 39th King of the New Stars title. Entered the 39th Kisei League aged 16 years nine months, a record. Came second in the 62nd NHK Cup in 2015 and second in the Professional Pair Go Championship 2016.

Chinese representatives

Yu Zhiying 5dan & Ke Jie 9dan pair
	Yu Zhiying 5dan	Born in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province on Nov. 23, 1997. Became 1dan in 2010; promoted to 5dan in 2013 for winning the 3rd SAWMG Women's Individual Championship. In 2014 won the 21st King of the New Stars title, the first woman to do so, and the 37th All-China Women's Championship. In 2015 won the 6th Qionglongshan Bingsheng Cup, reached the best 16 in the 20th Samsung Cup.
	Ke Jie 9dan	Born in Zhejiang Province on August 2, 1997. Became 1dan in 2008, 9dan in 2015. Won the 16th Agon Kiriyama Cup in 2014. Won the 15th Ricoh Cup, the 11th Weifu Fangkai King of Weiqi tournament, the 16th Japan-China Agon Kiriyama Cup, the 2nd Bailing Cup, and the 20th Samsung Cup in 2015. Won the 2nd Mlily Cup in 2016.

Wang Chenxing 5dan & Shi Yue 9dan pair
	Wang Chenxing 5dan	Born in Liaoning Province on July 15, 1991. Became 1dan in 2006, 2dan in 2009, and 5dan in 2012. Won the Chinese Women's Individual Championship in 2008, took second place in the 16th Asian Games Women's Team Championship in 2010. Promoted to 5dan for winning eight games in a row in the Huanglongshi Shuangdeng Cup Women's Team Championship. Came second in the 3rd SAWMG Women's Individual tournament, won the Pair Go and won the 4th Qionglongshan Bingsheng Cup in 2013. Won the 9th Liguang Cup Pair Go tournament (paired with Shi Yue 9dan) in 2014.
	Shi Yue 9dan	Born in Henan Province on Jan. 11, 1991. Became 1dan in 2003, 9dan in 2013. Won the 16th King of the New Stars in 2009, the 17th LG Cup and 10th Shangqi Cup in 2013. Won the 4th SAWMG Men's Team tournament and the 9th Liguang Cup Pair Go tournament (paired with Wang Chenxing 5dan) in 2014.

Korean representatives

Choi Jeong 6dan & Park Jeonghwan 9dan pair
	Choi Jeong 6dan	Born in South Chungcheong Province, Boryeong on Oct. 7, 1996. Disciple of Yoo Changhyeok. Became 1dan in 2010, 6dan in 2015. Took second place in 5th Women's Kiseong tournament. Won the 13th Women's Meonggin (Meijin) tournament in 2012 and has held it for four years in a row. Won the Bronze Medal in the SAWMG Women's Individual tournament, won the gold Medal in the Pair Go tournament, and reached the best 64 in the BC Card World Championship in 2012. Contributed to Korea's victory in the Huanglongshi Shuangdeng Cup with three successive wins and won the 6th Women's Kiseong in 2013. Won the 5th Qionglongshan Bingsheng Cup in 2014.
	Park Jeonghwan 9dan	Born in Seoul on Jan. 11, 1993. Disciple of Kweon Kap-long 8dan. Became 1dan in 2006, 9dan in 2010 (winning the Gold Medals in the Men's Team and Pair Go in the Asian Games; Korea's youngest 9dan). In 2011, won the 24th Fujitsu Cup, the 29th KBS King of Baduk Cup (won it three years in a row), the 16th GS Caltex Cup. In 2012, won the 13th Maxim Coffee Cup Strongest 9dan Player tournament (won it two years in a row). In 2013, came second in the 7th Ing Cup, won the 9th Korean Commodity Prices Information Cup. In 2014, won the 18th Bacchus Chunweon (Tengen) tournament. In 2015, won the 19th LG Cup and the 58th National Championship tournament.

Oh Yujin 2dan & Choi Chul-Han 9dan pair
	Oh Yujin 2dan	Born in Seoul on June 11, 1998. Became 1dan in 2012, 2dan in 2013. Came second in the Women's Team tournament in the Asian Indoor Martial Arts Games in 2013. Came second in the 16th Women's Meijin and starred on the winning team in the Korean's Women's League.
	Choi Chul-Han 9dan	Born in Busan City on March 12, 1985. Disciple of Kweon Kap-long 8dan. Became 1dan in 1997, 9dan in 2004. In 2003 won the 8th Bacchus Cup Chunweon (Tengen) title (won it two years in a row twice, in all four times). In 2004 won the 47th National Champion tournament (won it twice in a row, three times overall) and the 15th Kiseong tournament. In 2005 won the 2nd Chunghuan Cup, came second in the 18th Fujitsu Cup. In 2009 won the 6th Ing Cup and the 10th Maxim Coffee Cup Strongest 9dan tournament. In 2010 won the men's team Gold Medal in the Asian Games. Won the 7th 10dan tournament in 2012. In 2013 won the 41st Myeonggin tournament.

Chinese Taipei representatives

Missingham Joanne Jia-Jia 7dan & Chen Shih Iuan 9dan pair
	Missingham Joanne Jia-Jia 7dan	Born on May 26, 1994. Became 1dan in 2010, 2dan the same year, 6dan in 2012, 7dan in 2015. Came 2nd in the 1st Qionglongshan Bingsheng Cup in 2010. First in the 1st Taiwan Wei-ch'i Association Women's Professionals Representative Right Ranking tournament.
	Chen Shih Iuan 9dan	Born on Oct. 28, 1985. Became 1dan in 2000, 9dan in 2011. Won the 2nd National Championship tournament in 2006. Won the 10th Tianyuan tournament, the 4th King of Wei-ch'i tournament, and the 7th Throne tournament in 2011. In 2012, won the 19th Chunghuan, 11th Tianyuan, 8th National Championship tournament, 8th Throne, 5th King of Wei-ch'i, 4th Haifeng Cup in 2012.

Chang Kai Hsin 5dan & Wang Yuan Jyun 7dan pair
	Chang Kai Hsin 5dan	Born on July 4, 1980. Became 1dan in 2003, 5dan in 2013. Won the All-Chinese Taipei Women's Championship in 1999 and 2000. Won the 2nd Women's Mingjen tournament in 2012.
	Wang Yuan Jyun 7dan	Born on March 14, 1996. Became 1dan in 2007, 7dan in 2013. In 2013 won the 5th Haifeng Cup, 6th King of Wei-ch'i and 3rd 10dan tournaments.

Asian representative

Pattraporn Aroonphaichitra & Nuttakrit Taechaamnuayvit pair
	Pattraporn Aroonphaichitra (Thailand)	Born on June 17, 1987. Won the Silver Medal in the 24th SEA Games in 2007. In 2013 won the Bronze Medal in the 4th Asian Indoor Martial Games. Won gold medals in the women's individual, women's team and Pair Go tournaments in the Thai national championship.
	Nuttakrit Taechaamnuayvit (Thailand)	Born on June 6, 1991. Came second in the 1st Zhugang Cup amateur team tournament in 2013. Won the 11th Nanning International Weiqi Invitational Tournament in 2015.

European representatives

Rita Pocsai & Ali Jabarin 1dan pair
	Rita Pocsai (Hungary)	Born on Sept. 16, 1988. Won the European Female championship in 2005, 2009, 2011, 2015.Won the Hungarian Championship in 2010. Came third in the 19th International Amateur Pair Go Championship in 2008.
	Ali Jabarin 1dan (Israel)	Born on Nov. 25, 1993. Currently living in Tel Aviv, Israel. Won the Israeli Championship in 2007-2009, 2011 and 2013. Won the European Youth Championship (U18) in 2009. Became 1dan in 2014. Came second in European Championship in 2015. Won the European Grand Slam tournament in 2016.

Natalia Kovaleva & Ilya Shikshin 1dan pair
	Natalia Kovaleva (Russia)	Born on Sept. 2, 1987 in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Won the European Female Championship in 2007, 2013. Won the European Pair Go Championship 2006-2010. Came fourth in the 24th International Amateur Pair Go Championship in 2013.
	Ilya Shikshin 1dan (Russia)	Born on May 7, 1990 in Kazan, Russia. Won the Russian Championship seven times in 2005-2007, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2015. Won the European Championship three times in 2007, 2010 and 2011. Won the European Pair Go Championship three times in 2013-2015. Came 4th in the 34th World Amateur Go Championship in 2013. Became 1dan in 2015.

North American representatives

Sarah Yu & Eric Hao-Chiun Lui 1dan pair
	Sarah Yu (Canada)	Born on Jan. 29, 1990. Won the Bronze Medal in the 2nd World Mind Sports Games women's individual championship in 2012. Came fifth in the 1st IMSA IEMG in 2016.
	Eric Hao-Chiun Lui 1dan (USA)	Born in Maryland on April 6, 1989. Represented the US in more than 12 international tournaments. Came 2nd in the North American Ing Masters in 2010, 3rd in the 32nd World Amateur Go Championship in 2011 (the best result by an American), 4th in the KPMC in 2015. Became professional 1dan in January 2016.

Central & South American representatives

Rosario Papeschi & Fernando Aguilar pair
	Rosario Papeschi (Argentina)	Born on Nov. 28, 1951. Won the 5th Argentine Pair Go Championship in 2007. Came seventh in the 1st World Mind Sports Games Women's Team tournament in 2008. Won the 9th Argentine Pair Go Championship in 2009.
	Fernando Aguilar (Argentina)	Born on July 16, 1959. Came quarterfinalist in the 1st Toyota-Denso Cup World Go Oza Championship 2002. Came third in the　29th World Amateur Go Championship in 2008. Became the Iberoamerica Champion in 2001, 2003~2007, 2010, 2014. Argentine Champion in 2015.

Oceania & Africa representatives

Amy Song & David He pair
	Amy Song (Australia)	Born on Aug. 2, 2000. Came third in the 1st Australian Go Congress in 2014. Came 11th in the Australian Go Championship in 2015 and fifth in 2016.
	David He (Australia)	Born on Oct. 17, 1967. Played in the Australian National Go Championship in 2007.

The 26th International Amateur Pair Go Champion

Jeon Yujin & Song Hongsuk pair
	Jeon Yujin (Korea)	Born on July 10, 1992. Won the 26th International Amateur Pair Go Championship in 2015.
	Song Hongsuk (Korea)	Born in Seoul on Feb. 2, 1988. Won the 4th Korean PM's Cup in 2009. Won the 31st World Amateur Go Championship in 2010. Won the 26th International Amateur Pair Go Championship in 2015.