Pavol Lisy

Mgr. Pavol Lisý (born 9/2/1995, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia) is the first European profesional go player.
Curriculum vitae.
After graduating from the Grosslingová high school, Pavel studied at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics at Comenius University in Bratislava. Here he successfully defended first a bachelor's thesis on the topic: "Cryptocurrency" and then a diploma thesis on the topic: "The use of statistical modeling to predict the behavior of mobile game players. In addition to go, he currently works as a programmer in the field of data processing.
Go career.
Pavol Lisý started playing go at the age of 5. At the age of 6, he finished his first tournament at the European Children's Championship (2001) with six wins out of six games. He studied go at home and later was taught by Miroslav Poilak 3d once a week. In 2009, he received a scholarship sponsored, which was focused on 10 promising youths from 10 countries to study go for 3 months in Kings Baduk School in the mountains near Beijing. He studied in Korea under the supervision of professional players: Kim Sung-Rae 8p, Kim Seong-Ryong 9p and Hong Seul-Ki 7d. Pavol was promoted to 6 dan amateur in 2012, one year later he was promoted to 7 dan amateur.
In 2014, Pavol became the first professional player awarded by the European Go Federation after taking first place in the Pro Qualification Tournament. He was promoted to the second professional dan in 2018.