• HONINBO DOSAKU - The greatest Japanese player ever meets the Okinawan challenge...
• GENJO & CHITOKU - The scorecard of go's most celebrated rivalry...
• HATTORI INSHUKU - Head of the fifth go family and man of many parts...
• HONINBO JOWA - Master of fighting on and off the board...
  • Plus JOWA'S NAME - an old mystery can now be partly unravelled...
• YAMAMOTO GENKICHI - A newly discovered diploma, a regretful master, a great player...
• OTA YUZO - Honinbo Shusaku's mentor and match opponent, not to mention being a famous Edo dandy...
• HONINBO SHUSAKU - How a great and noble talent fell prey to a fatal illness...
• HONINBO SHUEI - The "noble" Meijin that even modern pros look to in matters of style...
• KITANI MINORU - Life in the war was hard for the Kitani family, too...
• HASHIMOTO UTARO - His first visit to China...
• FUJISAWA HIDEYUKI - A modern genius sent to sleep by go...
• TAKAGAWA SHUKAKU - Go's foremost rationalist...
• IWASA KEI - A genius with a drink problem...
• NOZAWA CHIKUCHO - Insight into go's most unpopular player...

• FAN XIPING and SHI DINGAN - Two geniuses proving lightning does strike twice in the same place...
• GUO BAILING - author of the very hard Guanzi Pu who said go was not difficult...
• GUO TISHENG - a somewhat neglected figure but important in 20th century go in China...
• HUANG LONGSHI - China's Dosaku who met a mysterious end...
• RUI NAIWEI - not just the strongest ever female player but a match for the top men...
• XU XINGYOU - Huang Longshi's worthy successor and supreme commentator...
• ZHOU LANYU - an avid reader of mid 17th century novels but famous for being lazy...
• NIE WEIPING - amateur tornado blows in...
• LIU XIAOGUANG - late but great, with special insight into how pros progress...
• LIU ZHONGFU - first master of go theory 1,000 years ago...

Former insei Pieter Mioch talks to famous pros from his base in Nagoya

• The legendary GO SEIGEN
• Kitani pupil TSUCHIDA MASAMITSU
• Romanian pro CATALIN TARANU

This is a series devoted to handicap games played by top pros when they were young. One special point of interest is to see how their bad moves differ from the bad moves of amateurs. Another is to note which moves the senior pro picks out for comment.

The games come from a wide variety of sources and so the treatment varies in each case - as does the handicap. They cover games from nine stones upwards.

Games and players featured:

1. Takagawa Kaku and Meijin Honinbo Shusai
2. Takemiya Masaki and Tanaka Minaichi
   • Plus TAKEMIYA'S FUSEKI IDEAS - Cosmic or natural...?
3. Otake Hideo and Kitani Minoru
4. Umezawa Yukari and Kato Masao
5. Iwamoto Kaoru and Hirose Heijiro

This is a series devoted to young stars. Most of them had just broken into the big time and this is a snapshot of them at that point in their careers. All have gone on to greater things.

Players featured:

1. Yi Seong-chae - Korean star with penchant for philopsophy..
2. Chang Hao - enter the dragon, China's new striker...
3. Liao Xingwen - yet another Chinese prodigy, but the youngest yet...
4. Zhou Junxun - Taiwan's greastest ever player..
5. Zhou Heyang - like Jowa, great talent maturing late...
6. Yamada Kimio - yes, Japan has young stars, too...

Many people famous in other walks of life have played go. See our survey - with games - of those who managed to find a game with a pro, plus a few others of special merit.