Wu Qingyuan

Wu Qingyuan (Japanese: Kure Kiyomoto/Go Seigen, Romanized: Go Seigen; June 12, 1914 - November 30, 2014), Mingquan, courtesy name Qingyuan, yixing, male, a native of Fuzhou, Fujian, a modern Go master, a former Japanese professional chess player, also known as the "Showa Go Sage". He started learning chess at the age of seven. A few years later, he had few opponents in China and was known as the "genius prodigy". Later, he was appreciated by Japanese chess player Kohei Inoue for his fifth dan in China and was recommended to Japanese Go elder Ken Segoshi for his seventh dan. At the age of fourteen, he went to Japan to study and was classified as a third-dan student by Japan. In 1933, he published a "new layout" with Minoru Kitani, and used Hoshi, Sansan, and Tengen to start the game against Hideya, which shocked the chess world. In 1940, he began to dominate the Japanese chess world for twenty years. He defeated all the top Japanese chess players at that time in ten games. He was praised by the chess world as the "first player of modern Go". Japan called him the "Showa Go Sage" and was awarded the title of "Great Player" by the government of the Republic of China.