World Amateur Go Championship

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World Amateur Go Championship
VenueMontien Riverside Hotel (2015)
LocationBangkok (2015)
Start dateMarch, 1979
Competitors57 players (2015) from 57 nations
Total prize moneyNone
Champions
MenChanghun Kim (2015)

The World Amateur Go Championship (WAGC) is an international tournament for amateur Go players, held once a year since 1979. The organising body is the International Go Federation (IGF).

Each participating country sends one player, although in the beginning of the contest there were multiple players from the stronger Go Countries (e.g. China, Japan, South Korea); in 2007 there were 68 participants.

Some of the participants have gone on to become top Go professionals.

Past champions[]

The names are ordered as Given name and Surname.

Year Winner 2nd 3rd
1979[1] Wei-Ping Nie ( China) Zu-De Chen ( China) ( China)
1980[2] ( Japan) Zu-De Chen ( China) Hajime Yasunaga ( Japan)
1981[3] ( China) Xiao-Chun Ma ( China) ( Japan)
1982[4] Da-Yuan Cao ( China) ( China) ( Japan)
1983[5] Xiao-Chun Ma ( China) Hiroshi Miura ( Japan) ( Japan)
1984[6] ( China) Chang-Hyuk Yoo ( South Korea) ( Japan)
1985[7] ( China) ( Hong Kong) Yasuro Kikuchi ( Japan)
1986[8] ( Hong Kong) Yasuro Kikuchi ( Japan) ( China)
1987[9] ( Japan) Bin Yu ( China) ( South Korea)
1988[10] ( China) ( Japan) ( Netherlands)
( South Korea)
1989[11] ( China) ( Taiwan) ( Japan)
1990[12] Hao Chang ( China) ( South Korea) Hiroshi Miura ( Japan)
1991[13] ( Japan) ( Taiwan) ( Netherlands)
1992[14] Yasuro Kikuchi ( Japan) ( South Korea) ( China)
1993[15] ( China) ( South Korea) ( Japan)
1994[16] ( Japan) Chun-Hsun Chou ( Taiwan) ( China)
1995[17] ( Japan) ( China) ( Hong Kong)
1996[18] ( China) ( Japan) ( South Korea)
1997[19] ( China) Hideyuki Sakai ( Japan) ( North Korea)
1998[20] ( South Korea) ( Japan) ( China)
1999[21] ( South Korea) Hideyuki Sakai ( Japan) ( North Korea)
2000[22] Hideyuki Sakai ( Japan) ( North Korea) ( South Korea)
2001[23] Dai-Chun Li ( China) ( Japan) ( Australia)
2002[24] ( China) ( South Korea) Yasuro Kikuchi ( Japan)
2003 Not held due to SARS outbreak.
2004[25] ( South Korea) ( Taiwan) ( China)
2005[26] ( China) ( North Korea) ( Taiwan)
2006[27] ( Japan) Weixing Tang ( China) ( North Korea)
2007[28] ( China) ( South Korea) ( Japan)
2008[29] ( South Korea) ( China) ( Argentina)
2009[30] ( China) ( South Korea) ( Hong Kong)
2010[31] ( South Korea) ( China) ( North Korea)
2011[32] ( China) ( South Korea) ( United States)
2012[33] ( China) ( South Korea) ( Taiwan)
2013[34] ( South Korea) ( China) ( Ukraine)
2014[35] ( Chinese Taipei) ( South Korea) ( China)
2015[36] ( South Korea) ( China) ( Chinese Taipei)
2016[37] ( China) ( South Korea) ( Chinese Taipei)
2017[38] ( China) ( South Korea) ( Chinese Taipei)
2018[39] ( Chinese Taipei) ( South Korea) ( China)
2019[40] ( China) ( South Korea) ( Hong Kong)
2020 Not held due to Covid-19 pandemic.
2021[41] ( China) ( Chinese Taipei) ( South Korea)

See also[]

References[]

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