Can you identify all these legends?

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Let’s try, that’s fun!

guess

1
2 Sakata Eio
3 Go seigen
4 Kitani Minoru

5 Cho Chikun
6 Kobayashi Koichi
7 Kato Masao
8 Takemya Masaki

9
10 Rin Kaiho
11 Otake?

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I think I got them. Most I knew instantly, but the topleft player I know better during his old age, so it was a bit harder.

my attempt

Fujisawa Shuko, Sakata Eio, Go Seigen, Kitani Minoru

Cho Chikun, Kobayashi Koichi, Kato Masao, Takemiya Masaki

Ishida Yoshio, Rin Kaiho, Otake Hideo

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Is this the newest forums game?
I like it.

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Can anyone …?

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I think I know the second one by his Chinese name but not his Japanese name… First one no idea at all lol

I think

Kawabata Yasunari, writer of The Master of Go. He is a legend as a writer (a Nobel laureate even), not a legend as a go player.
Honinbo Shusai, who was the master (meijin) featuring in that book.

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Legends from a different country:

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This is too easy. But at the same time, I’m also surprised that many Go players actually do not know their names.

Come on
  1. Nie Weiping
  2. Ma Xiaochun
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I don’t just know their names, I’ve met them both!

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It’s a bit younger generation too. I met them in 2008, wmsg. With Otake.

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Okay, here is a hard one.

Who is this legend?

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This is also possibly a hard one.

Go player?

it's

Segoe Kensaku

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had to think a bit

Max Rebattu

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This one is going to be hard.

Correct. I am impressed.

Is it

Chen Zude?

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I used the fact I know you are Dutch to help, my first thought was Jurgen Mattern. Having a beard like that was pretty much obligatory for strong western go players of that era.

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