Taiwanese Go playerIn this Chinese name, the family name is Lin (Rin).

Rin Kaihō or Lin Haifeng (Chinese: 林海峰; pinyin: Lín Hǎifēng; born May 6, 1942) is a professional Taiwanese Go player who made his name in *an. He is, along with Cho Chikun, Kobayashi Koichi, Otake Hideo, Takemiya Masaki and Kato Masao, considered one of the 'Six Supers' that dominated *anese Go world in the last three decades of the twentieth century.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Promotion record
• 3 *les and runners-up
• 4 Trivia
• 5 External links
• 6 Bibliography
• 7 References

Biography

Rin Kaiho was born in Shanghai, China. He was a student of Go Seigen when Go brought him to *an in 1952. He was a promising player who won his first *le at the age of 23, the Meijin. He is also part of the 1200 win group. Rin's rise to fame came in 1965 when he challenged Sakata Eio for his Meijin *le. Rin, at the time, was still only 23 and critics thought he would stand no chance against the then powerful Sakata. Even Sakata himself said that no Go player under the age of thirty should be Meijin. However, Rin put up a great fight and won the Meijin *le. Rin would continue winning the Meijin on different occasions, along with the Honinbo, during the late 1960s and early 1970s. His number of *les currently is 34, ranking him 7th of all time on the total number of *les list, tied with Norimoto Yoda. Rin has been on a dry spell of *les lately, with the last time he even challenged for one being in 2001, for the Meijin. Rin became the first professional in Nihon Ki-in history to reach 1,300 career wins. He won the game against Nobuaki Anzai on October 19, 2006 in a preliminary match for the 32nd Kisei. Rin currently resides in Tokyo, *an, but remains a citizen of Taiwan.

Promotion record

*les and runners-up

Ranks #8-t in total number of *les in *an.

Trivia

• Rin is Honorary Tengen.
• He needs to win the Kisei tournament and he will have won all 7 major *anese *les.
• In 1968 he became the second player to hold the Meijin and Honinbo *les at the same time.
• Starting in 1964, Rin had entered the Meijin League and remained in the league (including being the Meijin *le holder) for 35 consecutive years (39 participation in total), which is a historical record for all Go tournaments in *an.
• In 2007 Lee Changho mentioned to the media that Rin is his most respected professional Go player for his respectable personality.
• His students are Cho U, Rin Kanketsu, and Rin Shien.

External links

• GoBase Profile
• Sensei's Library Profile

Bibliography

• Come Up to Shodan. 2001.
• Dictionary of Basic Fuseki Volume 3: 3-4 Point Openings. 2008.

• Dictionary of Basic Fuseki Vol. 2. 2005.
• Dict. of Basic Fuseki, Vol. 1. 2004.
• Kaiho, Rin; Kudo, Norio; Chikun, Cho; et:al. (Kido Cl*ics) (Dec 1, 2010). Amazing Happenings in the Game of Go.

References