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16 June 2000 By John Fairbairn
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, EVERYONE

Elsewhere on this site, Pieter Mioch said he hoped to improve two stones just by shaking hands with Go Seigen. Maybe you will have the confidence to improve at least a stone if you know you share the birthday of a famous pro...

Year of birth in ( )

JUNE

Flaming June saw the birth of the go player most players would love to emulate. On Bunsei 12-5-5 - that's 1829-06-06 to us hairy barbarians - Honinbo Shusaku popped into the world. Mind you, if you believe the story in Hikaru no Go, the comic series that has taken Japan by storm, it was not really Shusaku who played all those wonderful games, but the Heian aristocrat Fujiwara no Sai. Sai was cheated out of victory by a Heian equivalent of an IGS escaper and so lost the game that decided who occupied the only post of go tutor at Court. His ghost could not rest without vengeance, and it inhabited Shusaku and then little Hikaru. Maybe one day it will vist you- hooooooo....

The other biggies in June have a bit more substance: Cho Chikun and Honinbo Shusai to name but two. Shusai's soul-mate Kawabata Yasunari was another June baby (14 June).

1 Yi Cheong-u 3d (1981)
2 Han Chong-chin 3d (1979), Suzuki Goro 7d (1917)
3 Nakano Hironari 9d (1969), Wang Hongjun 7d (1965)
4 Chen Yongan 5d (1953)
5 Aragaki Takeshi 9d (1956), Dai Jiashen 7d (1958), Fukuda Masayoshi 6d (1899), Hisajima Kunio 9d (1946), Kuwamoto Shinpei 4d (1972), Li Yuchuan 5d (1970), Morino Setsuo 9d (1950)
6 Honinbo Shusaku 7d (1829), Kondo Sachiko 4d (1946)
7 Cho Hye-yeon 2d (1985), Shirai Matsumi 5d (1893)
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9 Aoki Shin'ichi 9d (1965)
10 Rin Shien 5d (1978)
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12 Kato Keiko 2d (1978), Morikawa Masao 5d (1919), Takiguchi Masaki 7d (1963)
13 Okumura Yasushi 6d (1967)
14 Fujisawa Hideyuki 9d (1925), Inori Yoko 4d (1974), Komatsu Fujio 8d (1959), Lin Shengxian 5d (1959), Wang Yuhui 6d (1976)
15 Heo Chang-heui 8d (1954), Honda Kunihisa 9d (1945), Okabe Hiroaki 6d (1923), Seo Mu-sang 3d (1977)
16 Mannami Kana 1d (1983), Miyamoto Yoshihisa 9d (1939), Miyazaki Ryutaro 5d (1972), Ruan Yunsheng 7d (1955)
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18 Aoyagi Hideo 8d (1921), Che Zewu 7d (1963), Zhou Heyang 8d (1976)
19 Yang Jinhua 6d (1952)
20 Cho Chikun 9d (1956), Inagaki Koichi 8d (1936), Kobayashi Izumi 4d (1977), Paek Heung-su 5d (1941)
21 Kageyama Toshiro 7d (1926)
22 Ishikura Noboru 9d (1954), Mizokami Tomochika 6d (1977), Okada Yumiko 4d (1970), Zhang Xuan 8d (1968)
23 Konishi Taizo 7d (1939), Miyazaki Hiroshi 5d (1935)
24 Honinbo Shusai 9fd (1874), Inagaki Yo 2d (1971), Ishida Atsushi 8d (1969), Yi Il-seon 4d (1914)
25 Hane Yasumasa 9d (1944), Sasaki Tsuyoshi 2d (1977)
26 Kanagawa Masaaki 7d (1951), Kanno Kiyonori 7d (1941)
27 Akedo Kazumi 6d (1947), Tei Meiko 9d (1963)
28 Chen Zhaofeng 5d (1957)
29 Sekiyama Toshimichi 7d (1973), Yu Pyeong-ho 8d (1950)
30 Ando Toshiyuki 3d (1948), Toriki Hiroshi 5d (1949), Yun Seong-hyeon 6d (1975)



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