A very appreciated and unexpected visit changed out standard routine between Wednesday and Thursday: Chun Poong Jho came to visit us with some of his students. Chun Poong Jho is an 8 dan professional player (vic1000 on KGS), and he was present at many european go congress and so he's quite famous; he is also the person who invited russian Alexandre Dinerchtein (Александр Григорьевич Динерштейн) and Svetlana Shikshina (Светлана Валерьевна Шикшина) to South Korea helping them to become professionals.

Chun Poong Jho doesn't have a school, but thanks to his english and russian knowledge he knows a lot of people and he can teach baduk to westeners: usually he invites talented teenagers who want to become professionals to live in his house. At the moment he lives with Ilja Shikshin (Илья Валерьевич Шикшин), younger brother of Svetlana Shikshina, and Marija Zakharchenko, 14 years old Ukrainian already woman national champion accompanied by her mother.

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