World Amateur Go Championship

    Keywords: Tournament

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 2009, 70 players were eligible to play, but only 66 competed (presumably because of financial, political or health reasons).

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:

Edition Year Venue Number of Players Winner Country Link
1st 1979 Tokyo 15 Nie Weiping China
2nd 1980 Tokyo 20 Imamura Fumiaki Japan
3rd 1981 Tokyo 24 Shao Zhenzhong China
4th 1982 Tokyo 28 Cao Dayuan China [ext] full result
5th 1983 Osaka 29 Ma Xiaochun China
6th 1984 Tokyo 30 Wang Qun China [ext] full result
7th 1985 Tokyo 31 Wang Jianhong China
8th 1986 Tokyo 34 Chan Ka Yui Hong Kong
9th 1987 Beijing 34 Imamura Fumiaki Japan
10th 1988 Tokyo 36 Zhang Wendong China
11th 1989 Nagoya 38 Che Zewu China
12th 1990 Hiroshima 39 Chang Hao China
13th 1991 Kanazawa 39 Imamura Fumiaki Japan
14th 1992 Chiba 40 Kikuchi Yasuro Japan
15th 1993 Fukuoka 40 Sun Yiguo China
16th 1994 Kyoto 43 Hiraoka Satoshi Japan
17th 1995 Tokyo 44 Hirata Hironori Japan [ext] full result
18th 1996 Omachi, Nagano Prefecture 46 Liu Jun China [ext] full result
19th 1997 Sapporo 46 Liu Jun China [ext] full result
20th 1998 Tokyo 50 Kim Ch'an-u Korea [ext] full result
21st 1999 Oita 55 Yu Chae-seong Korea [ext] full result
22nd 2000 Sendai 56 Sakai Hideyuki Japan [ext] full result
23rd 2001 Miyazaki 56 Li Daichun China [ext] full result
24th 2002 Hida Takayama 61 Fu Li China [ext] full result
2003 Not held due to SARS outbreak, see IWABC
25th 2004 Kurashiki 64 Kang Wook Lee Korea [ext] full result
26th 2005 Aichi 65 Yu Qing Hu China [ext] full result
27th 2006 Nagasaki 68 Hiraoka Satoshi Japan [ext] full result [ext] 27th WAGC IGF report
28th 2007 Tokyo 68 Shan Ziteng China [ext] full result
29th 2008 Tokyo 68 Sung Bong Ha Korea [ext] full result
30th 2009 Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefecture 66 Yu Qing Hu China [ext] full result
31th 2010 China

See also:


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:


This is a copy of the living page "World Amateur Go Championship" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2009 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
[Welcome to Sensei's Library!]
StartingPoints
ReferenceSection
About