I've been entering into the GoGoD database some games from the 2nd International Go Tournament in Tokyo in 1964. This was a little bit even before my time in go, and a couple of names, given in Japanese and so requiring transliteration back, have foxed me.

One is P. Anderson of America - what does the P stand for? I have a memory of Paul.

Another is a Dutch name. He was part of the same team as Henk de Vries and is given (roughly) as M. Huumans (or Fuumans).

For West Germany there was a H. Judhof or similar.

Anyone out there know who they might be?

Any recent news of other players in that event would be of interest. Oddly, Korea and China were not invited. Apart from Japan, only West Germany, America, Netherlands, Yugoslavi, Austria and Britain took part (finishing in that order - there were two- or three- man teams plus a non-playing captain. Of the British team, John Barrs is dead but Bob Hitchens is still active. Not sure about Neil Stein. Eduard Ekart of Yugoslavia was perhaps to become the strongest European of those listed, though maybe Helmut Wiltschek edged in front. The other American player was Matsuda Takao of Matsuda Go Letters. I think he died not too long ago.

Yugoslavia had A. Sturm, USA had J. D. Goodell (Spirit of Ki author?). The other German player was Juergen Dueball, son of Felix.

Horst Mueller of Austria, one of the main sub-editors of Go review, made a career in senior hotel management, as I recall, and dropped out of high-visibility go, but did resurface in 2004 to play a game for Go World against Nakayama Noriyuki. Nakayama won by 1 giving 3 stones, and was maybe being kind, but Horst is obviously keeping his strength up. He's one of the unsung heroes of western go.

I also heard that Henk de Vries showed up at the Groningen Congress, and is well. He was once one of the elite players.

Any more updates?

Talking of oldies, one of the other games I just entered was by Cho Chikun when he was 8 (taking 3 stones from a pro and winning). He's another one who's kept his strength up!

The german player might be Horst Sudhoff.

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A good system naturally covers all corner cases without further effort.

Highly likely, thank you. The Japanese would render the z sound as j.

It is indeed Paul Anderson.

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"There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level." -- Bruce Lee

And thanks to you, too. Two down, one to go - but really no reminiscences of players of yore?

People who were around in 1964 have forgotten everything.

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).

I'm sure Paul would be happy to talk to you about it. I think you can find his contact information through the NY Go Center website. If not, let me know and I'll try to put you in touch.