Janice Kim

Janice Kim is a professional go player, author, and business owner. She was born in Illinois in 1969 , and grew up in New Mexico. As a teenager, she studied go in Korea under Jeong Soo-hyon (9-dan). She represented the US in the first World Youth Go Championship in 1984, placing third; in 1986 she played for the US again and won the event. In 1987 she became the first Westerner to be accepted by the Hanguk Kiwon as a pro; she remains one of only three western females ever to attain professional status (with Svetlana Shikshina and Diana Koszegi). She holds a bachelor's degree from New York University.

In 1997, she created [http://www.samarkand.net Samarkand] , an online store for go-related items. In 2003, she was promoted to a 3-Dan professional go player. Kim is the author of the "Getting Go" articles that accompany installments of Hikaru No Go, a manga about a boy who releases the spirit of a famous go player, in the American magazine Shonen Jump. She also writes occasionally for [http://www.usgo.org/e-journal.html The American Go E-Journal] .

On April 25,2008 she participated in the sixth season of the World Poker Tour. She finished in fourth taking home $11,125.

External links

* [http://www.samarkand.net/ Samarkand]
* [http://www.usgo.org/e-journal.html American Go Association]

Bibliography

*Learn to Play Go: A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game (ISBN 0-9644796-1-3)
*Learn to Play Go: Volume II: The Way of the Moving Horse (ISBN 0-9644796-2-1)
*Learn to Play Go: Volume III: The Dragon Style (ISBN 0-9644796-3-X)
*Learn to Play Go: Volume IV: Battle Strategies (ISBN 0-9644796-4-8)
*Learn to Play Go: Volume V: The Palace of Memory (ISBN 0-9644796-5-6)