Background
Zhou Heyang was born in Luoyang, Henan, China. He learnt Go because his father thought he"d change his behavior.
周鶴洋, 周鹤洋
Zhou Heyang was born in Luoyang, Henan, China. He learnt Go because his father thought he"d change his behavior.
He is a Chinese professional Go player. He turned professional in 1988, and advanced to 9 dan in 2001. He started learning how to play Go at the age of 8.
When he was 11, he joined the National Wei-qi Youth Team.
He quickly progressed and improved quickly. He hated losing, and it could be seen.
Since he was 4th in the tournament, he left home and joined the National Youth Squad in Beijing. Now he could learn about the deeper facts of Go.
The team was an outstanding squad of Shao Weigang, Lui Jing, Chang Hao, Luo Xihe, Wang Lei, and Zhou himself.
The problem Zhou had was that he was not like the other players. He did not go through the normal system of city or province squads. He never had those training methods.
He slowly matured up after joining the team
lieutenant took him a long 18 months to finally reach the average strength of the group. He was still a very unconfident player.
There was harsh criticism in the training system the team used. This is the one part Zhou had an advantage, and that was his stubbornness.
Zhou would gain patience from the criticism.
Now he could count a game accurately. Zhou was getting much stronger now. This became true when he beat Lee in the 10th Fujitsu Cup before following up on beating him again in the 13th Fujitsu Cup.
He is not like Lee, but he claims that both their abilities to count in the yose (end game) is above others
He would then get entry into the next year"s Fujitsu Cup, but he was blocked off by Kobayashi Koichi after beating Choi Myung-Hoon, Takemiya Masaki, and Lee Chang-house