Yang Hai is a young pro player that Isumi will meet during his travel in China. They'll become friends and the young Chinese will help the Insei to recover confidence in his go.

The "convenient" Yang Hai.

It's the nickname that Kurata gives to him and it's right that Yang Hai is a very sympathetic character. Open, relax, he doesn't make manners and his good mastership of foreigh languages (it's his passion and he speaks frequently the Japonese) is very pratical to talk with everyone.

He looks like rather cool with shorts and coloured shirts, he looks like and an adolescent who doesn't take his independence like players who have his age, he prefers live with youngs players. He loves computers and contraryly to others players, he seems to be interest by a lot of things outside go.

Very simply, he proposes immediately to Isumi to lodge him and recieved him nicely in his room.

A decisive meeting for Isumi.

Yang Hai will be a sort of coach for Isumi. He tests him and understand quickly that the Japonese's problem comes to his mind. So, he will help him to take confidence in him, fixing him challenges, organizing him matchs against Le Ping and Zaho Shii, playing games of pedagogical go against him.

The chinese team's captain.

He is himself an excellent go player in spit of his young age. Isumi says that he is lucky to play pedagogicals games with a player like him. During the Okuto Coup, he will be the homologous of Kurata, directing the Chinese's team. He observes with entertainment the trivials debates between Japan and Corean's teams. Because, in addition, Yang Hai is a little philosopher. Discussing of the misterious Sai with Toya Meijin, he tells him that it's maybe a sort of spirit of go...

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