International Amateur Pair Go Championship

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The International Amateur Pair Go Championship (IAPGC as known as IAPG CUP) is an international tournament for amateur Go players under the Pair Go rule, held once a year since 1990. This competition is partly on the international championship and partly on the Japanese national championship. The organising body is the (JPGA) and the International Amateur Pair Go Championship Executive Committee.[1]

History[]

Hisao Taki, the president of NKB inc. in traffic advertisement Industry, originated Pair Go and promoted first pair go championship named International Go Amateur Pair Tournament as known as the NKB Cup on December 23, 1990. However, this event is officially translated as 1st International Amateur Pair Go Championship in English. 64 players from 4 countries were invited in this event.[2]

On November 24, 1991, 2nd International Amateur Pair Go Championship was held at Hotel Edmont in Tokyo. Since this event, the neme of event was fixed.

In 2008, Pair Go was one of the official sports in World Mind Sports Games. For this reason, 19th event was promoted in 2008 World Mind Sports Games.[3]

In March 2010, "Pair Go 20th Anniversary WPGA Pair Go World Cup 2010 Hangzhou" was held in Hangzhou, China.

Past champions[]

Year Winner 2nd 3rd
( Japan) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( Japan) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( China) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( China) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( Japan) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( Japan) ( Japan) ( Japan)
Akira Yoshida ( Japan) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( Japan) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( Japan) Sung-Soo Park ( South Korea) Masaaki Kanno ( Japan)
Yukari Umezawa ( Japan) ( South Korea) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Taiwan) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Taiwan) Yuki Imamura ( Japan)
( Japan) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( Japan) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( Taiwan) ( Japan) ( South Korea)
( Taiwan) ( China) ( South Korea)
( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( Japan) ( Japan) ( South Korea)
( Japan) ( Japan) ( South Korea)
( North Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( North Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( China) ( South Korea) ( Japan)
( China) ( South Korea) ( Japan)
( China) Minoru Harada ( Japan) ( North Korea)
( China) ( Japan) ( North Korea)
( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( North Korea) ( South Korea) ( Japan)
( North Korea) ( South Korea) ( Japan)
( China) ( South Korea) ( Japan)
( China) Tae-Hyun Kim ( South Korea) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( China) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( China) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
Hye-Lim Kim ( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( North Korea) ( Hungary)
( South Korea) ( North Korea) ( Hungary)
( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
He Xie ( China) ( South Korea) ( China)
( China) ( South Korea) Yi Tang ( China)
( South Korea) ( China) Nobuyuki Tanaka ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( China) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Japan) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Taiwan) ( Japan)
( South Korea) ( Taiwan) ( Japan)

See also[]

  • Go competitions
  • Go players
  • Rengo

References[]

  1. ^ Tournament Outline
  2. ^ Japan Pair Go Association (23 May 2013). "The Path of Pair Go" (PDF). Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ WMSG Pair Go report

External links[]

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