Another big go player is Scott, he really likes go and he really wants to learn and teach go. We had many interesting games, but he was ahead lately. He's a funny guy with a very positive self-mockery: we had a lot of fun with his geographical skills and his handicap blitz games with Gabriel. Scott is a hard-working guy, he has a good mind-set and I really think he can give a lot to the go community.

Leonardo: What about you and your life besides go?
Scott: I'm Scott Jankowski, 20 years old from Cleveland, USA. I worked full time in a warehouse before coming here, and in my spare time I ran two go clubs. I like cars and animals, mostly dogs.

Leonardo: How did you start to play go and how is your go life?
Scott: 4 years ago I had family problems and with Hikaru no go I wanted to escape from the problems so I started to play. I studied by myself, then I played online on yahoo and then KGS 1 hour/day in a library. I studied a book by Cho Chikun “The magic of go”, and I tried to teach the others. Meanwhile I played some tournaments, also Baltimore Oza, US Go Congress, and other small tournaments. It's two years I study more, and when I started I think I was 14k. Saturday afternoon we met at the library, I started it, but not many people; in the other club there are more people, and very passionate players. My rank? From 2k to 2d, average maybe 1k.

Leonardo: Tell me about your adventure at KBC and in South Korea
Scott: A friend told about the school and I was very excited. I don't want to regret, so it's ok. The teaching was what I expected, I understand most but it's difficult to remember everything. I didn't like to play online on Cyberoro, I enjoy more the review of our game. Schedule is as expected, we are here to study so it's the right way, if you don't want to study you can go. This is also the perfect place to study, I like mountains, fresh air and no distractions. I had a big family with all the people, so many for so long and never a problem. To improve it was important to have the chance to be with strong players, solving problems and game reviews. I can have this at home, but having to play stronger players give you the chance to study hard and give your best to win. I also teach english to some kid in King's Baduk School in Seoul, and it's really nice, but I'd like to teach baduk, not English! Korea is a beautiful country, I like it a lot, I've never been treated as an outsider, so this is wonderful since I've been in USA. Anyway with English is maybe a little bit difficult here.

Leonardo: Plans for the future
Scott: I don't know exactly, but I'd like to think if it's possible to open a school into USA for every kind of level, as the Chinese class system. The reason is because I want to continue the chain of teaching that started 4000 years ago and have the chance to be very important for many people in other 4000 years next. I'd like to be a pro, but it's quite unluckily because it's very hard, but my objective now is to become as strong as to pass the insei exam here in Korea. Since I'm here, it's realistic to try to make it in 1 year.