As you may know, Korean inseis are very strong and there are lots of 1-dan professionals in Korea, who start to fight for big titles just after few months of becoming pro. The main problem is that the door is too narrow and I saw lot of unhappy ex-inseis, who was not able to become pro and also was not able to find a good job, because they studied only Go for lot of years straight. 

I know that there are lots of foreigners who want to become professionals in Korea or Japan. Some of them already missed this chance because of age limits they have in Asian Insei Leagues. Others are not sure - do they have enough talent or not. Till now the only way to check it was to stop everything and fly to Asia. And after few months or years you can see your chances.

Now there is the second option! You can take part in our project called "Korean-style Insei League on KGS". It's the full copy of the League they have in Korean Baduk Association and also it has some additional features, which I met in Korean schools when I was an insei myself in 1997-2002.

In our Insei League for only $95 per month you can get 8 teaching games, up to 11 SGF reviews and 16 audio lectures by best Korean professionals and former Hankuk Kiwon inseis. You can check your chances by playing other inseis of the Korean-style League (most of them also wants to become professionals) and see how big is your talent in Go.

If you feel, that you are the strongest in our League, and you can prove it by your results, we advice you to think seriously about the career of Go professional!

Alexander Dinerchtein, 7-time European Go Champion 
3-dan professional of the Korean Baduk Association

Rules changes March 2010

1. We will give 1% bonus to your % score for every additional insei vs insei game played after 12 So, 18-1 score will be better than 12-0 and 0-21 score better than 1-11.

2. The last one in every simultaneous will get short online review by the teacher immediately after the game

3. Minumum number of insei vs insei games, if you would like to promote to the next group: 12 with 6 different opponents. If you plan to keep your place in the league, you have to play minimum 10 games per month

4. Starting from April 2010, KGS+ membership is included to the Insei League entry fee: you will get it free of charge - as bonus. You can use it for watching old Insei League lectures from the archive.

Rules changes September 2010

We have lot of 7-8d inseis now, so we decided to create the special group for top inseis and minimize the ammount of 2d vs 8d games.   5 strongest inseis will be in the supergroup, 10 inseis - in A group

Supergroup vs A group =maximum 1 game per month, Supergroup vs supergroup = maximum 4 games per month, A group vs A group = maximum 4 games per month

Best one from A group will promote to the supergroup. Lowest one in the supergroup will go down to A group next month.

Handicap: Supergroup vs teachers = even games with 6.5 komi, A group vs teachers = 0.5 komi

Both in the supergroup and A group we will not count games, lost to teachers (same rule as in B-E groups). Also we will not count games lost by A group members to the supergroup members

Hwang Inseong (crowis on KGS), former Korean 1st class insei will replace Ilya Shikshin on his teaching position in the supergroup and A group, and will also play friendship games with inseis from lower groups.

We also have DGS Insei League. You can read more about it here: http://dgs.insei-league.com/.