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World Amateur Go Championship
Keywords: Tournament
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?
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JanvanRongen is posting a This is a copy of the living page "World Amateur Go Championship" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |