BGA dan players

Dan diplomas awarded by the BGA

1 dan | 2 dan | 3 dan | 4 dan | 5 dan | 6 dan | 7 dan

We award dan certificates to BGA members who have achieved sufficiently excellent tournament results (description of the system used).

BGA dan grades are awarded for life, so a few of the people on this list are no longer active players or members of the BGA. Conversely, a sufficiently strong player is welcome to enter a British tournament at a dan grade, even if they have not yet been awarded the corresponding certificate. The ratings FAQ explains this further. This list does not show those known to be deceased or living in another country. Some information is incomplete - please let us know if you can provide it.

The BGA also publishes a rating list based on the European Go Ratings.

Point at each player's name to see the date they were awarded each grade.

7 dan

  • Shutai Zhang

Number: 1

6 dan

  • Jon Diamond
  • Bei Ge
  • Tony M Goddard
  • Ben He
  • Matthew R Macfadyen
  • Li Shen

Number: 6

5 dan

  • Des Cann
  • Matthew Cocke
  • Young Kim
  • Paul G Prescott
  • M Edmund Shaw
  • Piers A Shepperson
  • Hui Wang
  • Vanessa Wong

Number: 8

4 dan

  • Sam Aitken
  • J P J Barty
  • T Mark Hall
  • Richard M Hunter
  • Joong-hoon Jo
  • Andrew Kay
  • Harold Lee
  • Frank May
  • Quentin Mills
  • David G R Mitchell
  • Antonio Moreno
  • Adam Pirani
  • Alex S C Rix
  • Francis M Roads
  • Gary Roberts
  • Alex Selby
  • Simon K Shiu
  • Alistair Wall
  • David Ward
  • Min Yang

Number: 20

3 dan

  • Tony Atkins
  • Alison M Bexfield
  • Bill R Brakes
  • William Brooks
  • Brian J Chandler
  • Jonathan Chetwynd
  • Paul Christie
  • Jim A Clare
  • S. Clark
  • William Connolley
  • Matthew Crosby
  • Andrew J Daly
  • Stuart J Dowsey
  • John T Fairbairn
  • Dan Gilder
  • Richard J Granville
  • Jeremy C Hawdon
  • M Hollings
  • Tim J Hunt
  • Nuo Jia
  • Andrew C Jones
  • David M Jones
  • Nick Krempel
  • Niculae Mandache
  • P Toby Manning
  • Charles R Matthews
  • Ron Moss
  • Yohei Negi
  • Sam Perlo-Freeman
  • Andrew Simons
  • John H Smith
  • David J Sutton
  • Neil Symes
  • Thor Thorsteinsson
  • Felix Wang
  • Nick J Webber
  • David G Wells
  • Michael Zhang

Number: 38

2 dan

  • John E Allen
  • Bob V Bagot
  • Stuart Barthropp
  • Terry Barker
  • Sam Beaton
  • Phil Beck
  • Robert Berry
  • Niall Cardin
  • Mike Charles
  • Jonathan Chin
  • Paul Clarke
  • Charles F Clement
  • Graham Clemow
  • Mark Cumper
  • Steve Draper
  • Paul S Fage
  • Julian Faraway
  • Harry Fearnley
  • Simon T F Goss
  • David Goto
  • Gavin Grant
  • Walter M Gregory
  • Jo Hampton
  • Paul Hankin
  • Mike J Harvey
  • John A Hobson
  • Matthew Holton
  • Derek G Hunter
  • David Lee
  • Jim Lewis
  • John McLeod
  • Ian Meiklejohn
  • Dan Micsa
  • David Phillips
  • Frank Pratt
  • Jay Rastall
  • Christian Scarff
  • Matthew Scott
  • Keith Seaman
  • Henry Segerman
  • Martin Smith
  • Paul Smith
  • Peter J R Smith
  • R J Smith
  • Chris Stevenson
  • Ruud Stoelman
  • Masashi Sugiyama
  • Paul Tabor
  • Paul Taylor
  • Sandy Taylor
  • Alistair Thompson
  • Alan Thornton
  • John S Tilley
  • David Woodnutt
  • Granville Wright

Number: 55

1 dan

  • Phil Achard
  • Colin P Adams
  • Baron Allday
  • Mo Amin
  • Dave Artus
  • James Aspden
  • Steve L Bailey
  • Toby Bailey
  • Paul H Barnard
  • G Barwood
  • Alex Bell
  • Marcus Bennett
  • Simon Bexfield
  • Les Bock
  • A James Bond
  • Louise Bremner
  • Stuart Brown
  • Brian Brunswick
  • Simon Butler
  • David Buckley
  • John C Cock
  • Michael Cockburn
  • Mark Collinson
  • A G Cooper
  • Michael E Culver
  • Ian Davis
  • Chris Dawson
  • John Dawson
  • Alan J Dean
  • Paul Donnelly
  • P Dunn
  • Brian Ellis
  • Nill Ghani
  • Tom Goodey
  • A Hall
  • Dave Harper
  • A J Harrison
  • J F Harte
  • Kirsty Healey
  • Bob J R Hitchens
  • Alan Hornbuckle
  • Simon E Hughes
  • Colin D Irving
  • Steve Jones
  • Kunio Kashiwagi
  • David Keeble
  • Alex Kent
  • David M King
  • Charles Leedham-Green
  • M C Lerner
  • Mark Lorrimer-Roberts
  • John McAnally
  • Jimmy Mao
  • Paul Margetts
  • Ian Marsh
  • Paul Mellor
  • R Gerry Mills
  • Andrew Morris
  • Lionel Naef
  • Tom Oxenham
  • T A Parker
  • Brian J Philp
  • Tony Putman
  • Natasha Regan
  • Matthew Reid
  • M C Roberts
  • P D Robinson
  • Simon Rudd
  • Jim Sadler
  • Allan A C Scarff
  • Konrad Scheffler
  • Eddie Smithers
  • Robert H Thompson
  • Robin Upton
  • Brian Uzzell
  • Mark Wainwright
  • Tony Warburton
  • Nick Wedd
  • Weed
  • John Welch
  • Steve Welch
  • Matthew Woodcraft
  • Chris J Wright
  • Clive R Wright

Number: 84

Total: 463 dans shared between 211 dan players





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