WAGC

11 Jun 2010 No Comments

Australasia at the thirty-first WAGC

The thirty-first World Amateur Go Championships this year was held in Hangzhou, China in the last eight days of May. David Ormerod 5d represented Australia, and placed thirtieth in the results as reported in Ranka, with victories against Costa Rica in the first round, Spain in the second round, Norway in the fifth round, and Thailand in the seventh round. Kaikun Xie 3d represented New Zealand and placed thirty-third, with victories against Mongolia in the first round, Lithuania in the fourth round, Norway in the sixth round, and Spain in the eighth round.

This is David’s first game against Daniel Vargas Campos 5k of Costa Rica, with comments by Younggil An 9p, one of his teachers:

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This is David’s second round game against Antonio Egea Diaz 3d of Spain, again with comments:

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Ranka mentioned “a strong challenge” from David to the USA’s Thomas Hsiang 7d in the seventh round, which, alas, did not quite come off.

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28 May 2009 No Comments

Halfway through the 2009 WAGC

…and the Australian representative is in equal seventeenth place out of sixty-six players. David He 7d of New South Wales lost to Jia Cheng Tan 6d of Singapore in the third (morning) round on day two of the thirtieth World Amateur Go Championships, and defeated Matt Cocke 5d of the United Kingdom in the fourth round this afternoon. Meanwhile, Longyang Li 4d of New Zealand lost to Santiago Andres Tabares 3d of Argentina in the third round and defeated Cristiano Garbarini 1d of Italy in the fifth round, to end up in forty-fourth place on the leader board.

Meanwhile, the IGF director from Oceania, Neville Smythe, has popped up among the audience at Shizuoka and engaged in na side game with Shiratori Sumiko 5p. Five handicap stones and 255 moves later, it was white’s game by six points. Review by Michael Redmond 9p and the SGF game record in conveniently viewable form at the Ranka blog entry.

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27 May 2009 2 Comments

Australian representative wins first two games at WAGC

After day one of the 30th World Amateur Go Championships, David He 7d from Australia is in sixteenth place out of sixty-six players (thirteen players are occupying third place at the moment). In the first (morning round) he won against Turkey’s Fatih Sulak 2d. In the second (afternoon) round he defeated Anh Tuan Tran 2d from Vietnam. New Zealand’s Longyang Li 4d won his first round game against Edgardo Carceres Estrada 7k and lost to Gheorghe Cornel Burzo 6d of Romania, to place twentieth along with 26 other players. There are six more rounds to go.

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16 May 2009 No Comments

2009 World Amateur Go Championships

The thirtieth World Amateur Go Championship this year will be eight rounds played from Wednesday the twenty-third to Saturday the twenty-ninth of May in Fukuroi, Japan. Australia’s representative is David He 7d of New South Wales, who was the 2007 Australian champion. David is profiled in this week’s American Go Association E-Journal. The Australian Go Journal will be following how he goes, and reporting it here.

Ranka Online has the tournament announcement and will be covering the championships in depth.

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