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His father, who had taken go lessons from Honinbo Shuho while studying in Japan, was responsible for introducing him to the game. Go Seigen quickly excelled and soon became known as a Go [notes 3] prodigy. By the time he was 12, less than three years after first learning the game, he was already of professional strength, as evidenced by his games against the visiting Japanese player Iwamoto Kaoru, 6p in 1926.\n\n\nGo Seigen teaching his pupil Rin Kaiho\nThe next year, he was able to reach a draw in a two-game match against another Japanese professional, Inoue Kohei, 5p. In 1928, still only 14 years old, he twice defeated Hashimoto Utaro, 4p. Go Seigen's reputation spread to Japan, then the leading Go powerhouse, and a movement was started there to bring him to Japan. He subsequently immigrated to Japan in 1928, at the invitation of Baron Kihachiro Okura and Inukai Tsuyoshi (later prime minister of Japan), and embarked on a professional career. He was tutored by Segoe Kensaku, the same teacher as Hashimoto Utaro and Cho Hunhyun.[4]\n\nGo Seigen began his rise to the top of professional go world early. By the time he was 18 he was already a top-flight player belonging to a very small elite. In 1933, along with his great friend Kitani Minoru, Go Seigen developed and popularized the Shinfuseki that broke away from the traditional opening patterns. It is for this very important contribution that Go Seigen and Kitani are recognized as the fathers of modern Go.[5]\n\nStarting in 1939, Go Seigen began a spectacular series of Jubango matches against other top players of the day. It was through these matches that Go Seigen convincingly demonstrated an overwhelming dominance over his contemporaries. Go Seigen had only two formal disciples — Rin Kaiho, Honorary Tengen[5] and Rui Naiwei, who was the strongest female go player ever and won open Guksu title.\n\nIn the 1940s, Go Seigen became involved in the Jiu (璽宇) shinshūkyō, which sprouted out of Oomoto. After the Jikoson incident in 1947, he and his wife distanced themselves from the cult. In November 1948, both had formally left.\n\nRetirement and death\nIn the summer of 1961, Go Seigen was struck by a motorcycle and was hospitalized for two months, and again for a longer period a year later. He suffered nerve damage, and his stamina and concentration greatly deteriorated as a result. The accident marked the beginning of the end for Go Seigen's career, as he was unable to play effectively in grueling long matches due to nausea and dizziness. He gradually played less and less often, and went into virtual retirement in 1964, although he did not \"officially\" retire until 1983.\n\nAfter his retirement, Go Seigen remained active in the Go community by teaching, writing, and promoting the game around the world. He authored a number of books on go, some of which include A Way of Play for the 21st Century, Modern Joseki Application Dictionary, and Fuseki and Middle-game Attack and Defense. Go Seigen held study sessions with other professional players such as O Rissei, Michael Redmond, Rui Naiwei, and others.\n\nIn 1987, Go Seigen was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, for his lifetime contributions to Go.\n\nIn 1999 Mr. Teramoto, Go Seigen's manager, told go writer Pieter Mioch \"He [Go Seigen] is one of three Go players who will still be notable several hundred years from now. The other two are Dosaku (1645 – 1702) and Shusaku (1829 – 1862).\"[6]\n\nIn the early morning of 30 November 2014, Go Seigen died of natural causes at a hospital in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, at the age of 100.[7]\n\nProfessional record\n\nJubango match against Fujisawa Kuranosuke (Fujisawa Hosai)\nGo Seigen is commonly considered to be among the best to have ever played go, and is frequently deemed to have been the best player of the 20th century. He dominated professional go for more than a quarter of a century. He maintained a brilliant match record and successively defeated all the leading players of the day in a series of notable jubango (contest between two players consisting of ten games), even forcing them down to handicaps. Some of the defeated were Kitani Minoru, Karigane Junichi, Hashimoto Utaro, Iwamoto Kaoru, Fujisawa Hosai, Sakata Eio, and Takagawa Kaku. Go lost just one jubango, and that was against Fujisawa Hosai. However, the match was played with Fujisawa taking the josen handicap throughout, and Fujisawa only managed to win with a score of 6 to 4. Some ten years later, Go Seigen took revenge on Fujisawa by beating him in two consecutive jubango with lopsided scores of 7-2 and 5-1 respectively. One must note that these jubango matches were all played without komi, and indeed the same applied to the vast majority of games Go Seigen played during his career. Go Seigen won the Oteai six times, and won a special Nihon Ki-in championship tournament in 1933.[4]\n\nA table of Go's jubango record is below.[4]\n\nOpponent\tRecord\tDates played\nKitani Minoru 5p\t3 - 3 (started even, abandoned after Kitani was promoted to 6p; handicap not changed)\t1933 - 34\nKitani Minoru 7p\t6 - 4 (started even, Kitani was beaten down to sen-ai-sen handicap after 6 games (5-1))\t1939 - 40\nKarigane Junichi 8p\t4 - 1 (started even, abandoned to avoid possible embarrassment for Karigane, since one more loss would mean Karigane having to play with sen-ai-sen handicap)\t1941 - 42\nFujisawa Kuranosuke 6p, later renamed Fujisawa Hosai\t4 - 6 (started with Fujisawa playing with josen handicap; handicap not changed)\t1942 - 44\nHashimoto Utaro 8p\t6 - 3 - 1 (started even, Hashimoto was beaten down to sen-ai-sen handicap after 8 games (6-2))\t1946 - 48\nIwamoto Kaoru 8p\t7 - 2 - 1 (started even, Iwamoto was beaten down to sen-ai-sen handicap after 6 games (5-1))\t1948 - 49\nAgainst a team of ten players\t8 - 1 - 1 (this was a 10-game match, but not a jubango)\t1949 - 50\nHashimoto Utaro 8p\t5 - 3 - 2 (started with Hashimoto playing with sen-ai-sen handicap, handicap not changed)\t1950 - 51\nFujisawa Hosai 9p\t7 - 2 - 1 (started even, Fujisawa was beaten down to sen-ai-sen handicap after 9 games (6-2-1))\t1951 - 52\nFujisawa Hosai 9p\t5 - 1 (abandoned after Fujisawa was beaten down from sen-ai-sen handicap to josen handicap)\t1952 - 53\nSakata Eio 8p\t6 - 2 (abandoned after Sakata was beaten down from sen-ai-sen handicap to josen handicap)\t1953 - 54\nTakagawa Kaku 8p\t6 - 4 (started even, Takagawa was beaten down to sen-ai-sen handicap after 8 games (6-2))\t1955 - 56\nStyle\nGo Seigen was notable for his fast-paced development and playing, fighting style, positional judgment and accurate reading. He settled his groups quickly, got to the big points first, and regularly used much less time in a game than his opponents. He was exceptional at using thickness and making large exchanges. His reading was fast and accurate, and his intuition and positional judgment were often praised. It was also noted that he rarely lost a ko fight that he initiated. Like many players of his time he mastered the Shusaku Opening before switching to his later style.[5]\n\nTheory\nIn addition to being a peerless match player, Go Seigen has also made great contributions to go theory, especially in the area of fuseki. He is well known, along with Kitani Minoru, as one of the two leading exponents and innovators of the shinfuseki, a period of revolutionary experimentation in the opening of the game that broke away from traditional moves. Go attributed some of his ideas to Honinbo Shuei, for whom he had much respect.[8] As a result of their substantial contributions to go theory, Go Seigen and Kitani Minoru are regarded as the founders of modern go. He was inventor of the notable and revolutionary uchimagari (inward bending) avalanche joseki variation. It was first played during a match against Takagawa Kaku in 1957.[5]\n\n\n\n\n\n","supporter":false,"is_bot":false,"bot_ai":null,"bot_owner":null,"website":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Seigen","registration_date":"2020-06-27T23:59:28.657470Z","name":"Avik Dragon","timeout_provisional":false,"ratings":{"version":5,"overall":{"rating":1735.890496485808,"deviation":64.12648353166043,"volatility":0.06125711154143721}},"is_friend":false,"aga_id":null,"ui_class":"","icon":"https://user-uploads.online-go.com/0355456393e771d91fd6ce96b92bd2eb-128.png"}