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World Amateur Go Championship
   

The World Amateur Go Championship (commonly abbreviated to WAGC) has been held every year from 1979 onwards. Each participating national go association sends one player, typically the amateur champion of the country concerned. In recent years there have been about 60 competitors.

In its early years the WAGC was a knockout tournament, but nowadays it's an 8-round Swiss. The following is a list of winners to date:

   1st  1979  Nie Weiping (China)
   2nd  1980  Imamura Fumiaki (Japan)
   3rd  1981  Shao Zhenzhong (China)
   4th  1982  Cao Dayuan (China)
   5th  1983  Ma Xiaochun (China)
   6th  1984  Wang Qun (China)
   7th  1985  Wang Jianhong (China)
   8th  1986  Chan Ka Yui (Hong Kong)
   9th  1987  Imamura Fumiaki (Japan)
  10th  1988  Zhang Wendong (China)
  11th  1989  Che Zewu (China)
  12th  1990  Chang Hao (China)
  13th  1991  Imamura Fumiaki (Japan)
  14th  1992  Kikuchi Yasuro (Japan)
  15th  1993  Sun Yiguo (China)
  16th  1994  Hiraoka Satoshi (Japan)
  17th  1995  Hirata Hironori (Japan)
  18th  1996  Jun Liu (China)
  19th  1997  Jun Liu (China)
  20th  1998  Kim Ch'an-u (Korea)
  21st  1999  Yu Chae-seong (Korea)
  22nd  2000  Sakai Hideyuki (Japan)
  23rd  2001  Li Daichun (China)
  24th  2002  Fu Li (China)


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