Pandanet Go European Team Championship 2017/2018
United Kingdom
2: Andrew Simons
- Pandanet account: Uberdude
- Go career: Started Summer 2005. Went to China for Go holiday 2007 went from 1d to 3d. Been going downhill since =)
- Club / city: Cambridge
- Rank: 4 dan
- Profession: Computer nerd
- Year of birth: 1985
3: Bruno Poltronieri
- Pandanet account: FrenchDude
- Go career: Started in December 2008. I went to Experience Go in China 2011 and Osaka Go Camp 2015. Attended KPMC in 2017.
- Club / city: Cambridge
- Rank: 3 dan
- Profession: Software Engineer
- Year of birth: 1993
4: Sam Aitken
- Pandanet account: aitkensam
- Go career: Started playing in 2005. Reached 4d in 2007. Stopped playing much due to work until 2011 when I moved to China so that I could spend more time on Go. Returned to UK late 2016.
- Club / city: Northampton
- Rank: 4 dan
- Profession: Banking
- Year of birth: 1984
5: Alex Kent
- Pandanet account: saraneth
- Club / city: Bristol
- Rank: 3 dan
- Profession: Software Engineer
- Year of birth: 1989
7: Jon Diamond
- Pandanet account: mumps
- Go career: Learnt 1961 at school. 1 dan in 1965, British Champion 1965-1977 (see http://www.britgo.org/bchamp/history) finally achieving promotion to 6 dan and best place 3rd in the European Championship. Represented the UK in the 1st World Amateur in 1979 and the 1st World Mind Sports Games in 2008. Founded Cambridge University club in 1965 (see http://www.societies.cam.ac.uk/cugos/) and British Go Journal in 1967, editor until 1972 (see http://www.britgo.org/history/bgj.html). Served on the Council of the British Go Association in the 1960/70s and was elected President in 2009. See http://senseis.xmp.net/?JonDiamond
- Rank: 3 dan
- Profession: Retired
- Year of birth: 1947
8: Tim Hunt
- Pandanet account: timhunt
- Go career: I started playing when I was at Cambridge University, over 20 years ago, and of course once you have started playing a game as good as Go, you never stop. I now work as a computer programmer at the Open University (http://www.open.ac.uk) doing development on Moodle (https://moodle.org).
- Club / city: Milton Keynes
- Rank: 2 dan
- Profession: Software developer
- Year of birth: 1973
9: Des Cann
- Pandanet account: Shuko
- Go career: Learnt to play in 1974. Won many UK tournaments. Represented UK many times. Peaked at 5 Dan but don't play enough to maintain. Still play at that level on Dragon server.
- Club / city: Ashford
- Rank: 3 dan
- Profession: IT Consultant
- Year of birth: 1956
10: Sandy Taylor (Captain)
- Pandanet account: afar
- Club / city: Bristol
- Rank: 3 dan
- Year of birth: 1989