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Pandanet Go European Team Championship 2014/2015

United Kingdom

Andrew Simons

1: 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


2: 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


3: Des Cann

  • Pandanet account: Shuko
  • Go career: Won many UK tournaments. Represented UK several times in World Amateur Championship.
  • Club / city: London
  • Rank: 3 dan
  • Profession: Computer Consultant
  • Year of birth: 1956
  • Comment: Won many UK tournaments. Represented UK several times in World Amateur Championship.


Sandy Taylor

5: Sandy Taylor

  • Pandanet account: afar
  • Club / city: Bristol
  • Rank: 3 dan
  • Year of birth: 1989


6: Paul Taylor

  • Pandanet account: wicket
  • Club / city: St Albans
  • Rank: 2 dan
  • Year of birth: 1980


Tim Hunt

7: 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


8: Toby Manning

  • Pandanet account: TobyM
  • Rank: 1 dan
  • Year of birth: 1960


9: Chris Bryant (Captain)

  • Pandanet account: SimbaRules
  • Rank: 3 dan


Henry Manners

10: Henry Manners

  • Pandanet account: Henry1987
  • Rank: 1 kyu
  • Year of birth: 1987


11: Evan McKiernan-Dooner

  • Pandanet account: rovan
  • Rank: 4 kyu
  • Year of birth: 1994


12: Gallimore Jonathan

  • Pandanet account: Treacle
  • Go career: First started to learn Go when I was given a Go board and stones as a present in Japan.
  • Rank: 7 kyu
  • Year of birth: 1978