Taiwan Professional Go - the Quest to the Top

Based on individual interviewing, this in-depth reporting intends to establish a clear picture of the Taiwan professional go. Starting with their earliest experience, the report describes their struggles as amateur players or as apprentices aboard and finally as professional players. The report follows their psychological stages to reveal how the professional go to the top. This report is divided into three sections. The first four chapters include the possible stages of an individual’s struggle of becoming a professional go player. It begins with their learning stages and goes on to describe the mindsets of those who fail to reach their goals. And finally the fourth chapter concludes with the intriguing psychology of top players. Through the stories of the observed, readers are expected to grasp the outlook and obstacles of Taiwan professional go. The fifth and sixth chapters turn on to discuss the gender and science perspectives of professional go, explaining the situation of female professional players and the challenge between the computer intelligence and human beings.. The last two chapters focus on the go history in Taiwan and offer a glimpse of the future. Through these eight chapters, the in-depth reporting intends to tell the stories of Taiwan professional go, not only providing a brief record but also a foundation that may pass on to future generations.