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BGA dan players (awarded diplomas)

We award dan certificates to BGA members who have achieved sufficiently excellent tournament results (description of the system used). BGA dan grades are awarded for life, so a few of the people on this main list are no longer active players or members of the BGA. Some information is incomplete - please let us know if you can provide it.

Point at each player's name to see the date they were awarded each grade.

6 dan

  • Jon Diamond
  • Bei Ge
  • Tony M Goddard
  • Matthew R Macfadyen
  • Li Shen
  • Vanessa Wong

Number: 6

5 dan

  • Des Cann
  • Matthew Cocke
  • Andrew Kay
  • Paul G Prescott
  • M Edmund Shaw
  • Piers A Shepperson
  • Hui Wang

Number: 7

4 dan

  • Sam Aitken
  • J P J Barty
  • T Mark Hall
  • Richard M Hunter
  • Harold Lee
  • Frank May
  • Quentin Mills
  • David G R Mitchell
  • Antonio Moreno
  • Adam Pirani
  • Alex S C Rix
  • Francis M Roads
  • Alex Selby
  • Simon K Shiu
  • Andrew Simons
  • Alistair Wall
  • Felix Wang
  • David Ward

Number: 18

3 dan

  • Tony Atkins
  • Alison M Bexfield
  • Bill R Brakes
  • William Brooks
  • Brian J Chandler
  • Jonathan Chetwynd
  • Paul Christie
  • Jim A Clare
  • S. Clark
  • William Connolley
  • Matthew Crosby
  • Andrew J Daly
  • Stuart J Dowsey
  • John T Fairbairn
  • Dan Gilder
  • Richard J Granville
  • Jeremy C Hawdon
  • M Hollings
  • Tim J Hunt
  • Andrew C Jones
  • David M Jones
  • Nick Krempel
  • Niculae Mandache
  • P Toby Manning
  • Charles R Matthews
  • Ron Moss
  • Yohei Negi
  • Sam Perlo-Freeman
  • John H Smith
  • David J Sutton
  • Neil Symes
  • Nick J Webber
  • David G Wells

Number: 33

2 dan

  • John E Allen
  • Bob V Bagot
  • Stuart Barthropp
  • Terry Barker
  • Sam Beaton
  • Phil Beck
  • Robert Berry
  • Niall Cardin
  • Mike Charles
  • Jonathan Chin
  • Paul Clarke
  • Charles F Clement
  • Graham Clemow
  • Mark Cumper
  • Steve Draper
  • Paul S Fage
  • Julian Faraway
  • Harry Fearnley
  • Simon T F Goss
  • David Goto
  • Gavin Grant
  • Walter M Gregory
  • Jo Hampton
  • Paul Hankin
  • Mike J Harvey
  • John A Hobson
  • Matthew Holton
  • Derek G Hunter
  • Alex Kent
  • David Lee
  • Jim Lewis
  • John McLeod
  • Ian Meiklejohn
  • David Phillips
  • Frank Pratt
  • Jay Rastall
  • Christian Scarff
  • Matthew Scott
  • Keith Seaman
  • Henry Segerman
  • Martin Smith
  • Paul Smith
  • Peter J R Smith
  • R J Smith
  • Chris Stevenson
  • Paul Tabor
  • Paul Taylor
  • Sandy Taylor
  • Alistair Thompson
  • Alan Thornton
  • John S Tilley
  • Michael Webster
  • David Woodnutt
  • Granville Wright

Number: 54

1 dan

  • Phil Achard
  • Colin P Adams
  • Baron Allday
  • Mo Amin
  • Dave Artus
  • James Aspden
  • Steve L Bailey
  • Toby Bailey
  • Paul H Barnard
  • G Barwood
  • Alex Bell
  • Marcus Bennett
  • Simon Bexfield
  • Les Bock
  • A James Bond
  • Louise Bremner
  • Stuart Brown
  • Brian Brunswick
  • Simon Butler
  • David Buckley
  • Dylan Carter
  • John C Cock
  • Michael Cockburn
  • Mark Collinson
  • A G Cooper
  • Michael E Culver
  • Chris Dawson
  • John Dawson
  • Alan J Dean
  • Paul Donnelly
  • P Dunn
  • Brian Ellis
  • Neil Ghani
  • Tom Goodey
  • A Hall
  • Dave Harper
  • A J Harrison
  • J F Harte
  • Kirsty Healey
  • Bob J R Hitchens
  • Alan Hornbuckle
  • Simon E Hughes
  • Colin D Irving
  • Steve Jones
  • Kunio Kashiwagi
  • David Keeble
  • David M King
  • Charles Leedham-Green
  • M C Lerner
  • Mark Lorrimer-Roberts
  • John McAnally
  • Martha McGill
  • Henry Manners
  • Jimmy Mao
  • Paul Margetts
  • Ian Marsh
  • Paul Mellor
  • Boris Mitrovic
  • Andrew Morris
  • Lionel Naef
  • Tom Oxenham
  • T A Parker
  • Brian J Philp
  • Tony Putman
  • Natasha Regan
  • Matthew Reid
  • M C Roberts
  • P D Robinson
  • Simon Rudd
  • Jim Sadler
  • Eddie Smithers
  • Robert H Thompson
  • Robin Upton
  • Brian Uzzell
  • Mark Wainwright
  • Tony Warburton
  • Nick Wedd
  • Weed
  • John Welch
  • Steve Welch
  • Matthew Woodcraft
  • Chris J Wright
  • Clive R Wright

Number: 83

Total: 433 dans shared between 201 dan players

Players known to have left the country, as of 2012

  • Shutai Zhang (returned to China)
  • Ben He (moved?)
  • Young Kim (returned to Korea?)
  • Joong-hoon Jo (moved?)
  • Bob Ochser (left country)
  • Jim L F Bates (moved to Australia)
  • Gary Roberts (to USA?)
  • Oliver Schmidt (deceased)
  • Min Yang (moved?)
  • Paul Anderson (returned to USA)
  • Nuo Jia (moved?)
  • Harry McAndrew (returned to Australia)
  • Thor Thorsteinsson (returned to Iceland?)
  • Klaus Pulverer (returned to Austria)
  • Michael Zhang (moved?)
  • Hennie Groot Lipman (returned to the Netherlands)
  • Michael Marz (returned to Germany)
  • Dan Micsa (moved to USA)
  • Jan Ruten-Budde (returned to Germany)
  • Ruud Stoelman (returned to Netherlands)
  • Masashi Sugiyama (returned to Japan?)
  • Alan P Stout (moved overseas)
  • Ian Davis (in Ireland)
  • W-H Djap (moved to Indonesia)
  • Paul Edwards (returned to South Africa)
  • Stuart Fawthrop (moved to USA)
  • S Han (returned home)
  • K Kuwahara (moved to Japan)
  • T Mizuno (moved to Japan)
  • Konrad Scheffler (returned to South Africa)
  • Sun Tze Whang (left country?)

Players known to be deceased, as of 2012

  • Terry W Stacey
  • John Rickard
  • Brian J Castledine
  • Andrew J Grant
  • Tim Hazelden
  • Clive Hendrie
  • John Barrs
  • R Gerry Mills
  • Allan A C Scarff

If you are listed as abroad, but are still in the UK, then let us know by rejoining the BGA.

Updates to the status of any player in the main list is of course also welcome.





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