曾炳輝

English

Tsang Ping-fai is a Hong Kong Go player and coach holding the 7-dan rank of the Chinese Go Association, and one of the territory's most experienced teachers of the game. Born in Guangdong, he learned Go as a child, won the Guangdong provincial Go championship in 1978 and moved to Hong Kong in 1980, where he soon became Hong Kong champion. In 1981 he defeated the Taiwanese amateur 6-dan Shen Chun-shan at the Hong Kong Go Club, an encounter reported on the front page of the Sing Pao newspaper by the martial-arts novelist Liang Yusheng. From early 1983 to 1985 he gave weekly Go lessons at the home of the celebrated novelist Jin Yong (Louis Cha), playing one or two games each Saturday and giving a three-stone handicap. He represented Hong Kong four times at the World Amateur Go Championship, finishing fourth at the 9th edition in 1987 and fifth at the 10th in 1988, and won multiple Hong Kong Go Open titles including the open section of the 1st Hong Kong Amateur Go Open in 2002. A career teacher of the game, he founded the Hongde Go Club, whose players together hold more than 100 dan ranks, and in a 2024 Xinhua interview was described as president of the Hong Kong, China Go Association. In 2023 he was appointed head coach of the Hong Kong, China Go squad for the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, where Hong Kong's women's team finished fourth and the men's team placed fifth in the preliminaries.