陳乃申

English

Chan Nai San, born on 11 May 1993, is a Hong Kong Go player of the sixth amateur dan and a long-standing mainstay of the territory's amateur representative squad. He has represented Hong Kong at the World Amateur Go Championship on several occasions: he appeared at the 40th edition, held in Matsue in Shimane, Japan, having qualified as runner-up of the Hong Kong Amateur Open and then aged 26, and he later finished eighth at the 44th edition and fifth at the 45th, one of Hong Kong's strongest records in the event. In 2023 he was named to the Hong Kong, China delegation for the Go events at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, competing in both the men's individual event and, with Chan Ka Ho, Chan Chi Hin, Ho Kwai Cheung, Ho Ho Yin and Woo Chun Yin, the men's team event; Hong Kong, China entered six male and four female players. After Go had featured at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, it returned to the programme at Hangzhou 2023, where the competition ran from 24 September to 3 October at the Hangzhou Chess Academy, with the men's individual and men's team events held in succession. Chan has long been active in the Hong Kong and international amateur Go scene and is one of the territory's leading players.