* 1958 – Rissei Ō, Japanese professional Go player

* 1976 – Chang Hao, Chinese professional Go player

** Iwamoto Kaoru, Japanese professional Go player ( b. 1902 )

* February 5 – Iwamoto Kaoru, Japanese professional Go player ( d. 1999 )

* June 20 – Cho Chikun, Korean professional Go player

* List of professional Go tournaments

In the third century BC, when an Asia Minor city wanted to create a maenadic cult of Dionysus, the Delphic Oracle bid them to send to Thebes for both instruction and three professional maenads, stating, " Go to the holy plain of Thebe so that you may get maenads who are from the family of Ino, daughter of Cadmus.

A Go professional is a professional player of the game of Go.

This is because only China ( Zhongguo Qiyuan ), Japan ( Nihon Ki-in, Kansai Ki-in ), Korea ( Hanguk Kiwon ), and Taiwan ( Taiwan Qiyuan ) have professional Go organizations.

There have also been professional Go players from the West, specifically Romania, Austria, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Australia and the United States of America.

Professional dan rankings are normally awarded in Japan, China, South Korea or Taiwan, through one of the professional Go associations, most notably the Hanguk Kiwon ( Korea ) or Nihon Ki-in ( Japan ).

Most professional players begin studying Go seriously when they are children, commonly reaching professional status in their mid to late teens.

* List of professional Go tournaments

Born May 19, 1914 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, southeast China, Go Seigen did not start learning the game of Go until he was nine, a relatively late age for a professional ( Honinbo Dosaku first learned Go at seven and Honinbo Shusaku before he was six ).

Go Seigen began his rise to the top of professional Go world early.

Go Seigen's star began to fade in the early 1960s due to health reasons and he had to virtually retire from playing professional Go by 1964.

The ordinary man and woman, however, saw little of the great professional games of those Golden Days, or of any other sporting event for that matter.

Garry Kasparov argued that Karpov would have had good chances, because he had beaten Spassky convincingly and was a new breed of tough professional, and indeed had higher quality games, while Fischer had been inactive for three years.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Despite Acorn themselves effectively shelving the Electron in 1985, games continued to be developed and released by professional software houses until 1991.

A normal activity for high schools in the US is attending Friday night football games in Autumn, while Sunday afternoons are reserved for the professional game, particularly the National Football League, and Saturdays are traditionally used for college football.

The tradition is often carried out at other sporting events, both professional or amateur, and even sometimes at non-sporting events where the anthem is played, throughout the Baltimore / Washington area and beyond, notably at Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers, Penn State Nittany Lions and Aberdeen Ironbirds games.

In addition to cheering at games and competing, professional cheerleaders also, as teams, do a lot of philanthropy and charity work, modeling, motivational speaking, television performances, and advertising.

The club play their home games at the Murrayfield Ice Rink and compete in the ten team professional Elite Ice Hockey League along with three other Scottish teams which are the Fife Flyers, Braehead Clan and the Dundee Stars.

In earlier football games ( both professional and collegiate ), the goal post began at the goal line, and was usually an H-shaped bar.

Many championship and bowl games at college and professional level are commemorated by the names of the opposing teams each being painted in one of the opposite end zones.

" More complex variants use computer modeling of actual games based on statistical input generated by professional sports.

In addition to Major League Baseball, Fenway Park has been the site of many other sporting and cultural events, including professional football games for the Boston Redskins and the Boston Patriots, concerts, soccer and hockey games, political and religious campaigns.

The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis, Indiana and play their home games at Lucas Oil Stadium.

For most of their early history, the Dolphins were coached by Don Shula, the most successful head coach in professional football history in terms of total games won.

The seventh game of the 1991 World Series is widely regarded as one of the greatest games in the history of professional baseball.

These were the first two World Series in professional baseball history in which a team won the championship by winning all four home games.

The New England Patriots, commonly called the " Pats ," are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium.

In the 1980s, play-by-mail games reached their peak of popularity with the advent of Gaming Universal, Paper Mayhem and Flagship magazine, the first professional magazines devoted to play-by-mail games.

The age of the team and its history of adversity have earned it the dubious distinction of having lost the most games of any team in the history of American professional sports.

Fans of professional wrestling have their own subculture, comparable to those of science fiction, video games, or comic books.

Retcons also appear in soap operas, serial drama, movie sequels, professional wrestling, video games, radio series, and other kinds of serial fiction.

As one of the oldest baseball teams, they have won the most games of any team in the history of American baseball, and any North American professional sports team.

Even this figure was misleading, since Green Bay had yielded only 131 points in the first 11 games ( when they clinched their division ), the lowest total in professional football.

and lawyers -- with the great virtues that they are trained to read `` the fine print '' carefully and are able out of professional experience to arrive at imaginative solutions to difficult problems in many fields -- are indispensable even in a foundation office.

Unless you want to make your wife a pool widow and to spend a great many of your leisure hours nursing your pool's pristine purity, its care and feeding -- from pH content to filtering and vacuuming -- is best left to a weekly or bi-monthly professional service.

That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.

Today many college bound students try to take a course in personal typing, as they feel a certain degree of mastery of this skill is almost essential for one who proposes to do academic work in college and a professional school.

Hundreds of other organizations exist in the various sub-fields of anthropology, sometimes divided up by nation or region, and many anthropologists work with collaborators in other disciplines, such as geology, physics, zoology, paleontology, anatomy, music theory, art history, sociology and so on, belonging to professional societies in those disciplines as well.

Scientific research is most often not the main goal for many amateur astronomers, unlike professional astronomy.

Work of scientific merit is possible, however, and many amateurs successfully contribute to the knowledge base of professional astronomers.

In many places, independent, non-licensed individuals are permitted to offer design services outside of the professional restrictions-such as the design of houses and other smaller structures.

This was a powerful video effects board which turned the Amiga into an affordable video processing computer which found its way into many professional video environments.

Acting classes and professional schools targeted at the under-18 crowd are offered in many locations.

This is the primary recording format used in many professional audio workstations in the television and film industry.

The work is performed as an operetta in many professional opera companies.

During his time at Yale he worked on the description of the Hopi language, and the historical linguistics of the Uto-Aztecan languages, publishing many influential papers in professional journals.

Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their jurisdiction ; others are professional organizations dedicated to serving their members ; in many cases, they are both

Some bicycle parts, particularly hub-based gearing systems, are complex, and many cyclists prefer to leave maintenance and repairs to professional bicycle mechanics.

With the outsourcing of maintenance staff and facilities, the increase in company health and safety regulations, and the increasing curb weights of buses, many operators now contract their towing needs to a professional vehicle recovery company.

Bell Bronze is used to make the tone rings of many professional model banjos.

Though the notion of a German blitzkrieg concept or doctrine survive in popular consciousness and popular literature, and many professional historians also still support the thesis.

However, as printers have improved in quality and performance, many jobs which used to be done by professional print shops are now done by users on local printers ; see desktop publishing.

Cyberpunk further inspired many professional writers who were not among the " original " cyberpunks to incorporate cyberpunk ideas into their own works, such as George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails.

Having a successful career such as being a professional athlete or an entertainment industry based professionals are careers that many average people can identify with but can only dream about pursuing.

There are many professional bodies for accountants and auditors throughout the world ; some of them are legally recognized in their jurisdictions.

The AAFC was to compete with the dominant National Football League once it began operations at the end of World War II, which had forced many professional teams to curtail activity, merge or go on hiatus as their players served in the U. S. military.

In the U. S. many professional dancers are members of unions such as the American Guild of Musical Artists, the Screen Actors Guild and Actors ' Equity Association.

At the graduate level, the university offers over 100 masters, doctoral, and professional programs, many available part-time.