Go Club Zürich

On Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 October 2026, Cho Seok-bin 8d and Kikkawa Hajime 4p will give a workshop at the Zurich Go Club. Both evenings start at 19:00. The two teachers are visiting several European cities this autumn, and Zurich is one of their stops.

Cho Seok-bin 8 dan

Cho Seok-bin was an insei (pro student) at the Korean Baduk Association in Seoul. From 2005 to 2008 he lived in Germany and Switzerland, where he taught Go and played many European tournaments. Some of his results from that time:

• 49 wins in European Go tournaments.
• Winner of the European Go Tour (Toyota / Pandanet European Cup) in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
• Number 1 in the official European ranking in 2008 and 2011
• His rating in the European Go Database is 2798.

He moved to Japan in 2008.

• Net Amateur Kisei, 2014 to 2016.
• Amateur Ryusei, 2009 and 2011.
• Second place at the national Amateur Honinbo, 2016.
• World Amateur Pair Go Championship, 2020.

Since 2013 he has run Nakamura Honinbo, a Go club and children’s Go school in Nagoya. Six of his students there have become professional players, among them Terada Shuta and Suzukawa Nanami (Nihon Ki-in school list). The school also takes foreign students, for single days or longer stays. Twice a year it holds a Go camp.

• Website: nakamurahoninbou.com (with an English section)
• X: @bin7674
• KGS: bin7674

Kikkawa Hajime 4 dan pro

Kikkawa Hajime is a professional with the Nihon Ki-in at its Kansai headquarters in Osaka (Nihon Ki-in profile). He was born in Hiroshima in 1990 and started playing Go at 12. He became an insei in 2005 and passed the pro exam in 2011 (Osaka Kodomo Igo Dojo).

Tournament results:

• Main tournament of the Hiroshima Aluminum Cup (Wakagoi-sen), 2017.
• Main tournament of the 27th Ryusei (Nihon Ki-in profile).
• Final qualifier of the Agon Kiriyama Cup, 2019.
• Promoted to 4 dan in 2022.

He is head instructor at the Osaka Kodomo Igo Dojo, a Go school for children that opened in 2019 (Wikipedia). Ten of his students have become professionals. One of them is Omote Yuto, now 4 dan at the Kansai Ki-in (Kikkawa Go Dojo). He also teaches Go at a kindergarten and gives online lessons in English.

• Osaka dojo (Japanese): osaka-kodomoigo.com
• Online lessons in English: kikkawagodojo.com
• X: @kikkawahajime

Programme

At their Frankfurt workshop the programme is:

• Teaching games (at least one per participant).
• Lectures on the opening and the endgame.
• Game reviews.

The Zurich evenings will follow a similar format.

Details

The workshop is open to players of all levels.