Su Yang

Su Yang, known as Jeff, is a  Finnish go player ranked  EGF 6 dan who plays as Finnish8d on KGS.

Jeff started to play go in 1988 in China at a go school while 8 years old. When he was 12, he reached the ranking of Chinese 5 dan. He started to teach go in China in 2000, and in the summer of 2005 started his career of teaching go in English.

He is a very experienced go teacher who was a main teacher in Go’n'games China trips in 2005 and 2007, and has served as both an organizer and a main teacher in Experience Go in China from 2008 to 2011.

He starts teaching online on KGS in early 2006. By now, hundreds of students have been under his tutelage and he only had received good feedback from them.

He was coach of Antti Törmänen 1p until Antti became Pro in Japan Go Association in 2015, and nowadays he is coaching Lukas Podpera 7d (3rd place in European Championship 2016), Lukas Krämer 6d (German Champion 2013-2016), Martin Ruzicka 4d (German Youth Champion 2015 and 2016) and Matias Pankoke 4d (Italian Champion 2015).

Nowadays, Jeff is living in Finland where he teach go in various tournaments and other events.

If you you’d like to know more about Jeff, check out his interview on GoSensations !

If you are interested in his teaching, feel free to contact him by email or directly on kgs