World Youth Goe Championship
This is an annual tournament with two divions, a junior division for players 12 years old and younger, and a senior division for players between 13 and 18. The Championship started in 1984. This is a Goe event, sponsored by the Ing Foundation. Amongst other things, this means komi is 8 points (with Black winning in the case of draws). To compensate slightly for the large komi, the winner of nigiri is allowed to choose colours, rather than having to take Black.
News:
23 August 2005: The 22nd Championship is being held in Barcelona, Spain at the moment. The website for the tournament is at http://www.aego.biz/wp/. It seems some of the games are being relayed on KGS by username wygc.
Previous tournaments:
1st 1984 Taiwan (link) 11th 1994 California, U.S.A. 12th 1995 Amstelveen, The Netherlands (
link) 13th 1996 Seoul, Korea 14th 1997 Taipei, Taiwan (
link) 15th 1998 Guiyang, China (
link) 16th 1999 Singapore (
link) 17th 2000 Prague, Czech Republic (
link) 18th 2001 Hawaii, U.S.A. 19th 2002 Bangkok, Thailand (
link (in Thai)) 20th 2003 Shanghai, China 21st 2004 Toronto, Canada (
link) 22nd 2005 Barcelona, Spain (
link)
See also: http://www.usgo.org/ingfoundation/