Charles Matthews read Mathematics at Cambridge, where he completed a Ph.D. in Number Theory in 1978 and reached a 3 dan level in Go. He was a lecturer at Harvard in 1981-2 and at Cambridge University as a Fellow of Queens' College 1982-8. He was a finalist in the British Go Championship
best-of-five match in 1997, and UK representative in the World Amateur Go Championship in Sendai in 2000. He is active as Secretary of the Cambridge University Go Society, the UK's largest Go club, and as an author on Go.