Nicolas Schroeter
Nicolas is officially the 1st student of BIBA. 2nd strongest player in Chile. His goal was becoming the strongest after the studies in BIBA. We are not sure if he managed it, because he is also a university student and he said he got very busy and didn't have time to challenge Avelio (actually later we also met with Avelio in Korea, was a member of Blackie's team. Avelio also visited BIBA for a very short time).
KGS Account: -
Year of birth: 1988
Country: Chile
Rank: 3d
Trip duration: 1,5 month
Gossip: We could say BIBA was opened because of Nicolas. :) He contacted me (Dia) through KGS, because he wanted to study in Korea. That time there were some foreigners (Jonathan, Zoli, Fritiof) in Korea, who were thinking to stay longer, but since IBA closed they had no place to stay. We found them a flat close to Hankuk Kiwon, but studying place was still a problem. Then we were hesitating with Blackie wether we should start a school or not, but starting an International School in all of a sudden, isn't that easy. Anyway then Blackie suddenly decided, let's try it, because Nicolas also wants to join so we already have our first official student. :)
Jonathan Lidor
Jonathan was 2d when he first went to Japan about 2,5 years ago. He studied from Kobayashi Chizu sensei. A year later he moved to Korea and studied at Mr Chun's place then he moved to IBA and after IBA closed he joined to BIBA. He has improved a lot in the last 2 years. Right now he is about 5d.
KGS Account:
Year of birth: 1992
Country: Israel
Rank: 4-5d
Trip duration: 6 months
Gossip: Jon went to the EGC in July, 2011 and he was planning to come back to BIBA, but he lost his passport so he was forced to go back to Israel. Unfortunately he couldn't come out from the country anymore, because he has to go to army. Probably he is in army now, it takes 3 years. :(
Marc Landgraf
Marc has started to play Baduk about 4 years ago. Over the last 3 years he studied 12 months at IBA, 2 months at KBC in Hungary and 7 months at BIBA. He was 2k when he went to IBA, right now he is strong 4d.
KGS Account: MaLa
Year of birth: 1987
Country: Germany
Rank: 4d (-> 5d soon?)
Trip duration: 8 months
Gossip: Marc is pretty good at Starcraft, Poker and he also used to play soccer when he was a kid. During his stay at BIBA, he improved about 1 stone at Baduk but at least 3 stones at chokku (footvolleyball). Till now he is the 3rd best player at chokku in BIBA (Blackie, Dia, Marc.... :)
Alex Simon
Alex has started to play Baduk about 5 years ago, but he started to study actively only in the last two years. He studied at IBA for about 2 months in the summer of 2010, joined to KBC in Hungary for 3-4 months and also studied 3 weeks at BIBA, while KBC was closed for a short time. However now KBC is closed completely since the end of 2011, so maybe Alex is coming back to us? :)
KGS Account: -
Year of birth: 1988
Country: Germany
Rank: 2k
Trip duration: 3 weeks
Gossip: ummm.... :)
Jean-Sébastien Lechasseur
Jean-Sébastien is one of the numerous dan players from the province of Québec in Canada. He organized a summer trip to BIBA with 4 of his friends: Daniel Gourdeau, Cory Clouston, Maxime Bergeron and Maxime Joncas. Right now he studies Number Theory at the University of Montreal and he's planning to go back to BIBA when he has more time.
KGS Account: JeansebL
Year of birth: 1988
Country: Canada
Rank: 5d CGA
Trip duration: 2,5 month
Gossip: Very confident in his reading, Jean-Sébastien realized he was actually quite weak at life and death for his level. He swore he would improve before going back to BIBA ^^.
Maxime Bergeron
Maxime reached the rank of 3D in only 1 year. A rare achievement. He recently played in the second round of the ''Tournoi des maîtres''. He improved by 2 stones during his stay at BIBA.
Daniel Gourdeau
Daniel holds the title of ''Maître du Québec'', which literally means he's the strongest player in the province of Quebec, in Canada. He's been holding this title for three consecutive years and now he's 18 years old...
He started playing Go when he was quite young with his father, François (5D). He eventually surpassed his father and he's now 6D CGA (Canadian Go Association).
KGS Account: goseki
Year of birth: 1993
Country: Canada
Rank: 6D CGA
Trip duration: 1.5 month
Gossip: He is also monstrously strong at StarCraft II. Korea is definitely a good place for him !
Foo Shi Hao
Foosh is the 3rd member of the Singaporian group, about same level with Alvin.
KGS account:
Year of birth: 1990
Country: Singapore
Rank: 3d
Trip duration: 3 weeks
Poh Xing Wei
Book is the 4th member of the Singaporean team. He has already been in Korea several times, but it is the first time to visit Korea because of Baduk.
KGS account:
Year of birth: 1989
Country: Singapore
Rank: 2d
Trip duration: 3 weeks
Gossip: Really big fan of a Korean girl band, therefore his Korean is also very good. :)
Genial Tan
Genial is the 5th member of the Singaporean team, also the secretary of the Singaporean Weiqi Association. All of the 5 guys are active members of the SWA.
KGS account:
Year of birth: 1988
Country: Singapore
Rank: 1d
Trip duration: 3 weeks
William
KGS Account: eau
Country: France
Year of birth: 1988
Rank: 11k
Trip duration: 1 months
William has started to play Baduk 1,5 months ago. He arrived to Korea, one week later after he first contacted with us. Seems he doesn't want to waste time. He has studying also very hard, let's see how far he can go in 3 months. He is aiming at 1d. :) Good luck!
Unfortunately William had to leave earlier because of his job.
Thomas Debarre
KGS Account:
Country: France
Year of birth: 1993
Rank: 6d
Trip duration: 10 days
Thomas is another top young European player. He was invited as a European representative for the amateur qualification tournament to the BC Card cup. After the tournament he had some time left, so he decided to study a short period at BIBA.
Dusan Mitic
Dusan is the strongest in Serbia, but his younger brother is also very strong (5d). Dusan has already studied in Korea. 3 months at KBC and another short period at IBA as well. He had bad luck, since both school closed and he had to go back to Serbia. Last year he had a nice result at EGC, he got 5th place.
KGS Account: DusanMitic
Year of birth: 1990
Country: Serbia
Rank: 6d
Trip duration: October 17 2011 – April 2012
Gossip: Lucky thing that Sanbon is far from Hongdae..... :-p
Joel Kaake
Joel is living in Japan, teaching English already for 2 years. He decided to visit BIBA during his holidays. He is planning to come back in Janury, 2013.
KGS Account:
Country: Canada
Year of birth: 1987
Rank: 1k
Trip duration: 8 days
Gossip: He promised to come back to dance infront of the fountaine ;) and of course to study Baduk (for about 3-5 months).
Matthew Mennie
KGS Account:
Year of birth: 1988
Country: Canada
Rank: 5k
Trip duration: 1 month
Ali Jabarin
Ali is the strongest player in Israel. He is still very young and already one of the top players in Europe. When he could wake up, he was a very diligent student, sometimes even forgot to go to eat, cause he was too much into the reviews or his game. :) But he should work on his wake up call. :-p
KGS Account: OohAah
Year of birth: 1993
Country: Israel
Rank: 6d
Trip duration: 7 months
Gossip: Forever 17 :) and probably our richest student :-p
Philippe Fontaine
Philippe got to know about BIBA on the EGC 2011 and he decided to study here for 3 months. He also studied Baduk in China few years ago.
KGS Account: -
Year of birth: 1974
Country: France
Rank: 3d
Trip duration: 3 months
Gossip: Philippe was considering to open a French restaurant in Korea. Not sure, he will make it finally. What is sure he made some really tasty food for us. Thanks! :)
Year of birth: 1987
Country: Germany
Rank: 4d (-> 5d soon?)
Trip duration: 8 months
Gossip: Marc is pretty good at Starcraft, Poker and he also used to play soccer when he was a kid. During his stay at BIBA, he improved about 1 stone at Baduk but at least 3 stones at chokku (footvolleyball). Till now he is the 3rd best player at chokku in BIBA (Blackie, Dia, Marc.... :)
Alex Simon
Alex has started to play Baduk about 5 years ago, but he started to study actively only in the last two years. He studied at IBA for about 2 months in the summer of 2010, joined to KBC in Hungary for 3-4 months and also studied 3 weeks at BIBA, while KBC was closed for a short time. However now KBC is closed completely since the end of 2011, so maybe Alex is coming back to us? :)
KGS Account: -
Year of birth: 1988
Country: Germany
Rank: 2k
Trip duration: 3 weeks
Gossip: ummm.... :)
Jean-Sébastien Lechasseur
Jean-Sébastien is one of the numerous dan players from the province of Québec in Canada. He organized a summer trip to BIBA with 4 of his friends: Daniel Gourdeau, Cory Clouston, Maxime Bergeron and Maxime Joncas. Right now he studies Number Theory at the University of Montreal and he's planning to go back to BIBA when he has more time.
KGS Account: JeansebL
Year of birth: 1988
Country: Canada
Rank: 5d CGA
Trip duration: 2,5 month
Gossip: Very confident in his reading, Jean-Sébastien realized he was actually quite weak at life and death for his level. He swore he would improve before going back to BIBA ^^.
Maxime Bergeron
Maxime reached the rank of 3D in only 1 year. A rare achievement. He recently played in the second round of the ''Tournoi des maîtres''. He improved by 2 stones during his stay at BIBA.
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Maxime is on the left
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KGS account: maxime6
Year of birth: 1993
Country: Canada
Rank: 3D CGA
Trip duration: 2.5 months
Gossip: He improved his english by at least 5 stones during his stay ^^.
Daniel Gourdeau
Daniel holds the title of ''Maître du Québec'', which literally means he's the strongest player in the province of Quebec, in Canada. He's been holding this title for three consecutive years and now he's 18 years old...
He started playing Go when he was quite young with his father, François (5D). He eventually surpassed his father and he's now 6D CGA (Canadian Go Association).
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Year of birth: 1993
Country: Canada
Rank: 6D CGA
Trip duration: 1.5 month
Gossip: He is also monstrously strong at StarCraft II. Korea is definitely a good place for him !
Christopher-Cory Paquet-Clouston
Cory came together with Daniel in the second wave of the Quebec invasion. Actually he also learned Baduk from Daniel, they used to play on paper sheets in math class. :) KGS account: Year of birth: 1993 Country: Canada Rank: 5k Trip duration: 1 month Gossip: Cory gains 2 stones when he listens to the song "When I'm gone" from Eminem. Maxime Joncas Last member of the "Quebec invasion". :) Maxime likes traveling and he decided to follow his friends (Seba, Daniel, Max, Cory) after hearing that they are having really good time in BIBA. KGS account: Year of birth: 1985 Country: Canada Rank: 2D Trip duration: 1 month Gossip: Became one of Dia's favorite students, after his plane was 4 hours late. :-p Volodymyr Zubariev
Vova was one of the most diligent students. At least he is in the top 3 (Corlan, Nicolas and Vova). He is working at Samsung in Ukraine so he was also planning to pick up some Korean. Vova also told us, that he is planning to come back, he studied so much Baduk, didn't have time for Korean yet. :)
KGS account: Vova
Year of birth:
Country: Ukraine Rank: Trip duration: 3 weeks Barkın Çelebican
Barkin is 3k from Turkey. Recently he had a nice result and finished 3rd on a tournament. (In Turkey, the strongest player is about 3d). He really loves the game and he also helps the Turkish Association a lot, with organizing tournaments, camp, etc etc...
Barkın on the left
KGS account:
Year of birth: 1977
Country: Turkey Rank: 3k Trip duration: 1 month Gossip: His love if the game is competing with his love of Korea (Korean culture, probably because he found similarity with the Turkish culture). He is planning to come back, hopefully he can manage it. Actually we were thinking to make him the manager of the school, who could also control the students at the accommodation. Issa Dioume Issa contacted Dia about 2 years ago that he wants to come to Korea. That time he was planning to go to IBA. Actually I thought he will never arrive. But finally he came. :) Issa is still high school student, so he is doing his studies by correspondence and studying Baduk everyday. He came to Korea as a 3d player (KGS rank), now he is already 5d.  KGS Account: Country: France, India Year of birth: 1995 Rank: 3d Trip duration: 10 months Gossip: Issa has really good ears, except when we call his name. :-p Zhang Xiang During December five Singaporeans came to BIBA for 3 weeks, Zhang Xiang was one of them. Zhang Xiang is the strongest player (6d) in Singapore. He was also the strongest at solving problems among the BIBA students. :) 
Zhang Xiang playing with An Hyeong-jun 3p at KBA
KGS account: Sadaharu Year of birth: 1989 Country: Singapore Rank: 6d Trip duration: 3 weeks Gossip: Have you ever heard about Tomato? :) Alvin Ng Yong Han Alvin is also from Singapore. He is a good friend of Cho Mikyung (female pro player, teaching in Singapore for almost 2 years). Alvin also learned some Korean from her. 
Alvin is on the right with Tomato
KGS account: Year of birth: 1989 Country: Singapore Rank: 3d Trip duration: 3 weeks Gossip: Just look at the picture :) It tells you everything ;) |
Foosh is the 3rd member of the Singaporian group, about same level with Alvin.
KGS account:
Year of birth: 1990
Country: Singapore
Rank: 3d
Trip duration: 3 weeks
Poh Xing Wei
Book is the 4th member of the Singaporean team. He has already been in Korea several times, but it is the first time to visit Korea because of Baduk.
KGS account:
Year of birth: 1989
Country: Singapore
Rank: 2d
Trip duration: 3 weeks
Gossip: Really big fan of a Korean girl band, therefore his Korean is also very good. :)
Genial Tan
Genial is the 5th member of the Singaporean team, also the secretary of the Singaporean Weiqi Association. All of the 5 guys are active members of the SWA.
KGS account:
Year of birth: 1988
Country: Singapore
Rank: 1d
Trip duration: 3 weeks
William
KGS Account: eau
Country: France
Year of birth: 1988
Rank: 11k
Trip duration: 1 months
William has started to play Baduk 1,5 months ago. He arrived to Korea, one week later after he first contacted with us. Seems he doesn't want to waste time. He has studying also very hard, let's see how far he can go in 3 months. He is aiming at 1d. :) Good luck!
Unfortunately William had to leave earlier because of his job.
Thomas Debarre
KGS Account:
Country: France
Year of birth: 1993
Rank: 6d
Trip duration: 10 days
Thomas is another top young European player. He was invited as a European representative for the amateur qualification tournament to the BC Card cup. After the tournament he had some time left, so he decided to study a short period at BIBA.
Dusan Mitic
Dusan is the strongest in Serbia, but his younger brother is also very strong (5d). Dusan has already studied in Korea. 3 months at KBC and another short period at IBA as well. He had bad luck, since both school closed and he had to go back to Serbia. Last year he had a nice result at EGC, he got 5th place.
KGS Account: DusanMitic
Year of birth: 1990
Country: Serbia
Rank: 6d
Trip duration: October 17 2011 – April 2012
Gossip: Lucky thing that Sanbon is far from Hongdae..... :-p
Joel Kaake
Joel is living in Japan, teaching English already for 2 years. He decided to visit BIBA during his holidays. He is planning to come back in Janury, 2013.
KGS Account:
Country: Canada
Year of birth: 1987
Rank: 1k
Trip duration: 8 days
Gossip: He promised to come back to dance infront of the fountaine ;) and of course to study Baduk (for about 3-5 months).
Matthew Mennie
KGS Account:
Year of birth: 1988
Country: Canada
Rank: 5k
Trip duration: 1 month
Ali Jabarin
Ali is the strongest player in Israel. He is still very young and already one of the top players in Europe. When he could wake up, he was a very diligent student, sometimes even forgot to go to eat, cause he was too much into the reviews or his game. :) But he should work on his wake up call. :-p
KGS Account: OohAah
Year of birth: 1993
Country: Israel
Rank: 6d
Trip duration: 7 months
Gossip: Forever 17 :) and probably our richest student :-p
Philippe Fontaine
Philippe got to know about BIBA on the EGC 2011 and he decided to study here for 3 months. He also studied Baduk in China few years ago.
KGS Account: -
Year of birth: 1974
Country: France
Rank: 3d
Trip duration: 3 months
Gossip: Philippe was considering to open a French restaurant in Korea. Not sure, he will make it finally. What is sure he made some really tasty food for us. Thanks! :)
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