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World Amateur Go Championship
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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)

Rafael Caetano: What about this year's WAGC? I know it was postponed, but they still haven't decided the new date. Is it going to happen at all?

Andreas Teckentrup: There is a World Amateur Go Championship in Korea now. It's not the old WAGC, but a second one. The original one was cancelled due to SARS. The Koreans and the Japanese couldn't make an agreement, so the Koreans just started their own WAGC. The WAGC was always in Japan for political reasons (China/Taiwan and North Korea/South Korea could all take part).

I heard this from Laurent Heiser who as the strongest player in Luxembourg (by about 7 stones) takes part in these Championships.

Nacho: As I understand it, the Korean championship is not a replacement for the WAGC, but just a different championship. They took care to give it a quite different name, something with the name of the city it is played in. (Incheon? or something like that, I don't remember). So next year, there will be two different world championships for amateurs. That's what I heard, it may be wrong. Maybe somebody can clarify all this?

Andreas Teckentrup: You're correct, the Korean amateur championship is an additional amateur world championship with a different name. But this year, there will only be the Korean amateur championship (they have sent out invitations already). I just said "their own WAGC" because I didn't want to type "World Amateur Go Championship" every time.

Phil Waldron?: The Korean championship is the "1st Incheon Cup" (held in Incheon), which implies that there will be more in the future. This tournament has been blessed by the International Go Federation, and so in some sense is the replacement for the WAGC in 2003. I expect that next year both events will be held.

Marcin Kaminski Can anyone point to a page in english giving more details about this new World Championships?

RafaelCaetano: Check the [ext] championship website. There are some mistakes in the players' pages. For instance, the entry for Australia actually gives the data for the Austrian player. Also, it's not completely in English, but at least you can get the ranks of the players on the line below the name. But overall this website seems much nicer than the WAGC ones.

The 1st and 2nd rounds have been played. Check the [ext] results. I haven't found any game records, though. Also I didn't find the pairings for the 3rd round. But since (almost?) all players with 2 wins are quite strong, the 3rd round seems promising.

JanvanRongen is posting a [ext] log of his experience as official for IWABC.



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