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 68 in 2007.

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:

                Number of
 Edition | Year |Players| Winner             | Country   | Link
 --------+------+-------+--------------------+-----------+---------
    1st  | 1979 |  15   | Nie Weiping        | China     |
    2nd  | 1980 |  20   | Imamura Fumiaki    | Japan     |
    3rd  | 1981 |  24   | Shao Zhenzhong     | China     |
    4th  | 1982 |  28   | Cao Dayuan         | China     | [ext] full result
    5th  | 1983 |  29   | Ma Xiaochun        | China     |
    6th  | 1984 |  30   | Wang Qun           | China     | [ext] full result
    7th  | 1985 |  31   | Wang Jianhong      | China     |
    8th  | 1986 |  34   | Chan Ka Yui        | Hong Kong |
    9th  | 1987 |  34   | Imamura Fumiaki    | Japan     |
   10th  | 1988 |  36   | Zhang Wendong      | China     |
   11th  | 1989 |  38   | Che Zewu           | China     |
   12th  | 1990 |  39   | Chang Hao          | China     |
   13th  | 1991 |  39   | Imamura Fumiaki    | Japan     |
   14th  | 1992 |  40   | Kikuchi Yasuro     | Japan     |
   15th  | 1993 |  40   | Sun Yiguo          | China     |
   16th  | 1994 |  43   | Hiraoka Satoshi    | Japan     |
   17th  | 1995 |  44   | Hirata Hironori    | Japan     | [ext] full result
   18th  | 1996 |  46   | Liu Jun            | China     | [ext] full result
   19th  | 1997 |  46   | Liu Jun            | China     | [ext] full result
   20th  | 1998 |  50   | Kim Ch'an-u        | Korea     | [ext] full result
   21st  | 1999 |  55   | Yu Chae-seong      | Korea     | [ext] full result
   22nd  | 2000 |  56   | Sakai Hideyuki     | Japan     | [ext] full result
   23rd  | 2001 |  56   | Li Daichun         | China     | [ext] full result
   24th  | 2002 |  61   | Fu Li              | China     | [ext] full result
         | 2003 |       | Not held due to SARS outbreak, see IWABC
   25th  | 2004 |  64   | Kang Wook Lee      | Korea     | [ext] full result
   26th  | 2005 |  65   | Yu Qing Hu         | China     | [ext] full result
   27th  | 2006 |  68   | Hiraoka Satoshi    | Japan     | [ext] full result [ext] 27th WAGC IGF report
   28th  | 2007 |  68   | Shan Ziteng        | China     | [ext] full result
   29th  | 2008 |  68   | Sung Bong Ha       | Korea     | [ext] full result

See also
[ext] List of tournament locations and participating countries 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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