North American Masters Tournament

The North American Masters Tournament was a tournament for professional Go players in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Starting in 2000, top North American amateurs were also seed into the event. Unusually for a professional tournament, most of it was played over the Internet (on IGS). The final best-of-3 match was played over the board at the U.S. Go Congress until 2006

1995 Jiang Zhujiu (2–1 win over Jimmy Cha)

1996 Jiang Zhujiu (2–1 win over Rui Naiwei, his wife)

1997 Jiang Zhujiu (2–0 win over Michael Redmond)

1998 Jiang Zhujiu (2–0 win over Jimmy Cha)

1999 Jiang Zhujiu (2–1 win over Rui Naiwei)

2000 Jiang Zhujiu (2–1 win over Rui Naiwei)

2001 Jiang Zhujiu (2–1 win over Jiang Mingjiu)

2002 Jiang Zhujiu (2–1 win over Feng Yun)

2005 Jie Li (2–1 win over Thomas Hsiang)

2006 Jie Li (2–1 win over Feng Yun) details at http://www.seattlegocenter.org/namt/

Further details and full results for the year 1995–2002 can be found at http://www.usgo.org/tournaments/NAMT/.

This Tournament has been combined with The North American Ing Cup to produce The North American Ing Masters, a pro-am tournament sponsored by the Ing Foundation. The NAIM features qualifying events across the US and on the Internet; winners are seeded in with top finishers from the previous year to produce a 16 player field at the US Go Congress. Details can be found at http://www.usgo.org/tournaments/ING/ or at NorthAmericanIngMastersTournament.

2006 League Results

                 JL    FY    MJ    YY    XL    HY    TH    ZC    Score
Jie Li            X     -    W+T   B+T   B+24  B+R    -    B+R    5–2
Feng Yun         B+R    X     -    B+T   W+R         W+13  B+R    5–1
Mingjiu Jiang     -    W+1    X    B+5   W+R   B+R   B+R    -     5–2
Yilun Yang        -     -     -     X    W+R   W+R   W+R   W+9    4–3
Lin Xuefen        -     -     -     -     X    B+R   B+R    -     2–5
Yang Huiren       -           -     -     -     X     -     -     0–6
Thomas Hsiang    W+3    -     -     -     -    B+1    X     -     2–5
Zhaonian Chen     -     -   W+13    -    W+R   W+R   B+R    X     4–3