Pavol Lisy

Lisý started playing go at the age of 5. At the age of 6, he finished his first tournament at the 2001 European Children's Championship^[7] with six wins out of six games. He studied go at home and later was taught by Miroslav Poilak 3d^[8] once a week. In 2009, he received a scholarship provided to 10 promising young players^[9] from 10 countries to study go for 3 months at the King's Baduk School in the mountains near Beijing. He subsequently studied in Korea under the supervision of professional players Kim Sung-Rae 8p, Kim Seong-Ryong 9p and Hong Seul-Ki 7d. Lisý was promoted to amateur 6-dan in 2012, one year later he was promoted to 7-dan amateur.^[10]

In 2014, Lisý became the first professional player certified by the European Go Federation^[11][12] after taking first place in the Pro Qualification Tournament in 2014.^[13] He was promoted to a 2-dan professional in 2018.^[14]

• 2nd place European Grand Prix final (2019)^[15]
• Master of Europe (2018)^[16]
• Master of European Professionals (2018)^[17]
• 2nd Grand Slam (2018)^[18]
• The first European professional go player (2014)
• Seven-time master of Slovak Republic (2010–2014, 2017, 2020)
• Three-time European Junior Champion U20 U20 (2011,2013,2015)
• 5th place místo World Amateur Go Championship, Sendai, Japan (2013)
• 1st place místo Qinling Mountains Cup, Xian, China (2014)
• 3rd place of 2nd European Grand Slam, Berlin, Germany (2016)
• 3rd place of 2nd European Professional Championship, St. Petersburg, Russia (2017)
• 1st place in more than 55 tournaments.