The Most Famous
GO PLAYERS from China
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Go Players. The pantheon dataset contains 2 Go Players, 1 of which were born in China. This makes China the birth place of the most number of Go Players.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Go Players of all time. This list of famous Chinese Go Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Go Seigen (1914 - 2014)
With an HPI of 56.61, Go Seigen is the most famous Chinese Go Player. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Wu Chuan (Chinese: 吳泉), courtesy name Wu Ching-yuan (Chinese: 吳清源) (June 12, 1914 – November 30, 2014), better known by the Japanese pronunciation of his courtesy name, Go Seigen (ご せいげん), was a Han Chinese master of the game of Go. He is considered by many players to have been the greatest Go player in the 20th century.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as go players born between 1914 and 1914. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased go players include Go Seigen.
