Home > News > Column

European Top Players Strength (1) - In-seong Hwang 7D

Lee, Semi / 2010-12-31

Prologue

Whenever I visit to Korea, lots of people ask me "How strong are they?"
It is really hard to answer because it depends on how they estimate European Baduk players' strength. Still most of people underestimate European Baduk players. However, they are much stronger than normal Korean Baduk players think.

As it happened in the last Korea prime minister cup, a teenage Ukraine player took the 5th place. Even after the tournament, the winner Sang-hun Lee(7dan, Korea) said the game against Ukraine player was the most difficult game of the tournament.

I researched only top level players.


Example players

Before I start this research, I need to find some example players. Well.. Actually it was not so difficult. I have stayed in Europe for more than 2 and half years, and I knew who is good for the example player for this kind of research.

I choose four 6dan players and four 7dan players in Europe and four Korean players who had stayed in Europe for more than a year. These Korean guys will stand here as your standard. You know, as European players, they do not have many chances to play against Korean or Asian
professional players, even with amateur players as well. However, these four guys stayed more than 1 year in Europe as Baduk teachers and played a big number of games with European strong players.

Here is the list of the example players

















































































Most of 6dan players have studied in Japan, and some of them were inseies of Japanese Baduk Association. Their ages are around 20-30s, so they are still strong and normally stronger than other 6dan players in Europe and even quite active. European 7dan players, they also have studied Baduk in Korea and Japan. Catalin got a professional license in Japan, and Alexandre got it in Korea.
 
Even if they are 6dan, still they are the strongest players in their own countries. It is very respectable. If I were born in Europe, I don't think that I could be at my strength because of the very poor Baduk circumstance.

- Photo resource: EuroGoTV

  • play now
  • client download
  • how to play
WBaduk Ranking
WBaduk Ranking
1 zxc0962 7D★ RP : 320,020
2 djjdfkfklf 7D★ RP : 35,990
3 ningjian98 7D★ RP : 35,950
4 dadalao 7D★ RP : 35,950
5 dsxr 7D★ RP : 35,950
6 fiekdikwe 7D★ RP : 35,950
7 j6846 7D★ RP : 35,950
8 kbslsh 7D★ RP : 35,950
9 csnow 7D★ RP : 35,950
10 natal 7D★ RP : 35,950
Today's Problem