Proud father sees his son learn to make the right moves

In 2010, Shen Yao spent one semester at Arizona State University in the United States as part of his two-year MBA program at Shanghai's Fudan University. He rapidly discovered that a cafe near the Arizona campus had been the gathering point for Go players each week.

When Shen, an amateur 5-dan player since his teenage years, joined the event, the former marketing professional in the machinery industry was surprised to learn that the weekly games, initiated by a professor in the 1980s, had been taking place for more than three decades.

"I never imagined that they would continue to attract regular players for so long. This is virtually impossible in China, as few people my age have the time to play Go regularly," said Shen, who was born in 1975.