My name is Pavol Lisy. I was born in a small town Dunajská Streda, Slovakia on the 9th of February, 1995.
My mother came from a Hungarian family, my father from a Slovak family. So I was first taught the Hungarian language and then the Slovak.
I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. They also play go occassinally. My father is also a go player, his level is 6kyu.
I lived in a village Dolný Štál until 2004. Then I moved to another village, Vlky, near Bratislava, where I live now.
When I was a small kid, I started to collect lids from beers. Everyone who knew me collected them and give the lids to me, when me and my family visited them. When I was 5 years old, one day I was playing with them. I was playing with the two kinds, from which I had the most. That was the white "Steiger" (about 1000 pieces) and the brown "Topvar" (about 700 pieces). My father saw me and it reminded him a game, which he was taught on his university, but he had never played it. The game was called Go. He searched for the rules, we made a 19x19 board from paper and we started to put lids on it. That is how I started to play Go.
We played atari-go in the beginning mostly, but soon we changed to play on territory. My first tournament was at my age of 6, in 2001, the European Youth Goe Championship in Ustron, Poland. I liked the game, so my father was taking me to small 9x9 tournaments in Bratislava every week. Time to time, we also went to a tournament together. Me and my father were rivals at that time, we moved together to the level of 7kyu.
I didn't study go at that time. I only played in tournaments. I was also playing football in a local football club, I was learning how to play the guitar and I was also visiting the chess club in my school. Things changed when my mother died at my age of 9, in 2004. We had to move to another place and I stopped doing almost everything for a while, even Go.
I had a teacher, his name is Miroslav Poliak, a 3d go player from Slovakia. He accompanied me to many tournaments, he gave me private lessons for free. I am very thankful to him. He helped me to improve from 7 kyu to 1kyu, where I got stuck for more than a year.
The first milestone in my go career came in 2009, when I was 14 years old. I got an opportunity to study Go(Baduk) in Korea for free. I was afraid of going there alone and I didn't really speak English, I only knew some basic words. But my father wanted me to go and my director allowed me to skip 3 months from my school, so I went there.
March-May, 2009 I studied go in Kings Baduk School, South Korea. Thanks to Mr. Kim Sung-Rae 8p, one go player per country could come to get better in the game, the costs were covered. I met many go players from all over the world. We studied together, played league games and solved tsumego. My teachers were: Kim Sung-Rae 8p, Kim Seong-Ryong 9p and Hong Seul-Ki 7d. At the end of my stay, my teachers said, that my level is 3 dan. So I improved 3 stones in 3 months. I also think my English got way better there.
In 2009, after my stay in Korea, I played in the European Go Congress 2009, Groningen, The Netherlands as 1 dan. After the tournament my rank was 3 dan, the Koreans were right. Afterwards, I started to attend tournaments more often. In 2010-2013 I think I played 20-25 tournaments a year, mostly in the Czech Republic, where I learnt a lot from the 5-6 dans.I played a lot of games on KGS, In the beginning occassionally, but slowly I realised myself playing every day. I became 6 dan in 2012. Became 7 dan in 2013 after I managed to get 2nd place in the European Go Congress in Poland.
In May 2014, thanks to the cooperation between EGF and CEGO (Chinese investor, who is supporting European Go) the 1st European pro qualification was held. 2 days after I graduated from high school, I played my first qualification game in Strasbourg, France. One week later, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, after I won the fourth game of the pro qualification against Cornel Burzo, 6 dan, I became a European 1 dan professional Go player.
Thanks to CEGO I got the opportunity to study go in China. Me and 5 other go players from Europe went there in September 2014 to join the 2nd Edition of CEGO Academic System in Beijing. The training was hard and exhausting. We studied 5 days a week from 8:30 until 20:30. We also had lectures and other programs on the weekend. It was worth it. We will see how much we learnt there. I came back from China in March 2015.
From spring 2015, I am doing regularly Go lessons and Go meetings in Bratislava. Once per week, people can come and play or enjoy a lecture. I as well started my studies in Economical and Financial mathematics in Comenius University in Bratislava in autumn 2015. My plan is to finish a 3-year bachelor program and afterwards a 2-year magister program.
I also started to play much more on Tygem, my plan for 2017 is to play at least 300 games.
Many thanks to everyone who helped me to get where I am.
16.3.2015
My most notable achievments:
Became 1 dan professional (2014)
5x Slovak Champion (2010-2014)
3x European U20 Champion (2011,2013,2015)
5th place World Amateur Go Championship, Sendai, Japan (2013)
Winner of 1st Qinling Mountains Cup, Xian, China (2014)
3rd place 2nd European Grand Slam, Berlin, Germany (2016)
3rd place 2nd European Professional Championship, St. Petersburg, Russia (2017)
Winner of 55 Go tournaments
Represented Europe:
3rd SportAccord World Mind Games, Beijing, China (2013)
Sankei Pro-Ama by Kansaii Ki-in, Osaka, Japan(2014)
China City League C in Qinghuandao, China (2015)
Samsung cup Preliminary - World division (2016)
My mother came from a Hungarian family, my father from a Slovak family. So I was first taught the Hungarian language and then the Slovak.
I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. They also play go occassinally. My father is also a go player, his level is 6kyu.
I lived in a village Dolný Štál until 2004. Then I moved to another village, Vlky, near Bratislava, where I live now.
When I was a small kid, I started to collect lids from beers. Everyone who knew me collected them and give the lids to me, when me and my family visited them. When I was 5 years old, one day I was playing with them. I was playing with the two kinds, from which I had the most. That was the white "Steiger" (about 1000 pieces) and the brown "Topvar" (about 700 pieces). My father saw me and it reminded him a game, which he was taught on his university, but he had never played it. The game was called Go. He searched for the rules, we made a 19x19 board from paper and we started to put lids on it. That is how I started to play Go.
We played atari-go in the beginning mostly, but soon we changed to play on territory. My first tournament was at my age of 6, in 2001, the European Youth Goe Championship in Ustron, Poland. I liked the game, so my father was taking me to small 9x9 tournaments in Bratislava every week. Time to time, we also went to a tournament together. Me and my father were rivals at that time, we moved together to the level of 7kyu.
I didn't study go at that time. I only played in tournaments. I was also playing football in a local football club, I was learning how to play the guitar and I was also visiting the chess club in my school. Things changed when my mother died at my age of 9, in 2004. We had to move to another place and I stopped doing almost everything for a while, even Go.
I had a teacher, his name is Miroslav Poliak, a 3d go player from Slovakia. He accompanied me to many tournaments, he gave me private lessons for free. I am very thankful to him. He helped me to improve from 7 kyu to 1kyu, where I got stuck for more than a year.
The first milestone in my go career came in 2009, when I was 14 years old. I got an opportunity to study Go(Baduk) in Korea for free. I was afraid of going there alone and I didn't really speak English, I only knew some basic words. But my father wanted me to go and my director allowed me to skip 3 months from my school, so I went there.
March-May, 2009 I studied go in Kings Baduk School, South Korea. Thanks to Mr. Kim Sung-Rae 8p, one go player per country could come to get better in the game, the costs were covered. I met many go players from all over the world. We studied together, played league games and solved tsumego. My teachers were: Kim Sung-Rae 8p, Kim Seong-Ryong 9p and Hong Seul-Ki 7d. At the end of my stay, my teachers said, that my level is 3 dan. So I improved 3 stones in 3 months. I also think my English got way better there.
In 2009, after my stay in Korea, I played in the European Go Congress 2009, Groningen, The Netherlands as 1 dan. After the tournament my rank was 3 dan, the Koreans were right. Afterwards, I started to attend tournaments more often. In 2010-2013 I think I played 20-25 tournaments a year, mostly in the Czech Republic, where I learnt a lot from the 5-6 dans.I played a lot of games on KGS, In the beginning occassionally, but slowly I realised myself playing every day. I became 6 dan in 2012. Became 7 dan in 2013 after I managed to get 2nd place in the European Go Congress in Poland.
In May 2014, thanks to the cooperation between EGF and CEGO (Chinese investor, who is supporting European Go) the 1st European pro qualification was held. 2 days after I graduated from high school, I played my first qualification game in Strasbourg, France. One week later, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, after I won the fourth game of the pro qualification against Cornel Burzo, 6 dan, I became a European 1 dan professional Go player.
Thanks to CEGO I got the opportunity to study go in China. Me and 5 other go players from Europe went there in September 2014 to join the 2nd Edition of CEGO Academic System in Beijing. The training was hard and exhausting. We studied 5 days a week from 8:30 until 20:30. We also had lectures and other programs on the weekend. It was worth it. We will see how much we learnt there. I came back from China in March 2015.
From spring 2015, I am doing regularly Go lessons and Go meetings in Bratislava. Once per week, people can come and play or enjoy a lecture. I as well started my studies in Economical and Financial mathematics in Comenius University in Bratislava in autumn 2015. My plan is to finish a 3-year bachelor program and afterwards a 2-year magister program.
I also started to play much more on Tygem, my plan for 2017 is to play at least 300 games.
Many thanks to everyone who helped me to get where I am.
16.3.2015
My most notable achievments:
Became 1 dan professional (2014)
5x Slovak Champion (2010-2014)
3x European U20 Champion (2011,2013,2015)
5th place World Amateur Go Championship, Sendai, Japan (2013)
Winner of 1st Qinling Mountains Cup, Xian, China (2014)
3rd place 2nd European Grand Slam, Berlin, Germany (2016)
3rd place 2nd European Professional Championship, St. Petersburg, Russia (2017)
Winner of 55 Go tournaments
Represented Europe:
3rd SportAccord World Mind Games, Beijing, China (2013)
Sankei Pro-Ama by Kansaii Ki-in, Osaka, Japan(2014)
China City League C in Qinghuandao, China (2015)
Samsung cup Preliminary - World division (2016)