World Amateur Go Championship

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The International Go Federation World Amateur Go Championship (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. The tournament has grown from 44 countries and territories in 1995 to 65 in 2006.

In its early years the WAGC was a knockout tournament, but nowadays it's an 8-round Swiss. (In 1984 and 1985 it was a 7-round Swiss). The time limits in 2006 were 90 minutes per player with 10 minutes/15 moves Canadian byo-yomi.

In 2006, Korea also started holding a world amateur championship. See Korea Prime Minister Cup World Baduk Championship.

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) - [ext] 17th WAGC
  18th  1996  Liu Jun (China) - [ext] 18th WAGC
  19th  1997  Liu Jun (China) - [ext] 19th WAGC
  20th  1998  Kim Ch'an-u (Korea) - [ext] 20th WAGC
  21st  1999  Yu Chae-seong (Korea) - [ext] 21st WAGC
  22nd  2000  Sakai Hideyuki (Japan) - [ext] 22nd WAGC
  23rd  2001  Li Daichun (China) - [ext] 23rd WAGC
  24th  2002  Fu Li (China) - [ext] 24th WAGC
        2003  not held due to SARS outbreak.
  25th  2004  Kang Wook Lee? (Korea) - [ext] 25th WAGC
  26th  2005  Yu Qing Hu? (China) - [ext] 26th WAGC
  27th  2006  Hiraoka Satoshi (Japan) - [ext] 27th WAGC

[ext] 27th WAGC IGF report See also
[ext] List of winners on Nihon Ki-in site
Incheon World Amateur Baduk Championship.


Amateur to Professional

The level of play at the WAGC is obviously quite high, and many of its amateur winners have gone on to become successful professionals:


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