World Amateur Go Championship

History Of World Amateur Go Championship

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.

World Amateur Go Championship Archieve

• 1979 - Wei-Ping Nie ( China)
  
• 1980 - Fumiaki Imamura ( Japan)
  
• 1981 - Zhen-Zhong Shao ( China)
  
• 1982 - Da-Yuan Cao ( China)
  
• 1983 - Xiao-Chun Ma ( China)
  
• 1984 - Qun Wang ( China)
  
• 1985 - Jian-Hong Wang ( China)
  
• 1986 - Jia-Rui Chen ( Hong Kong)
  
• 1987 - Fumiaki Imamura ( Japan)
  
• 1988 - Wen-Dong Zhang ( China)
  
• 1989 - Ze-Wu Che ( China)
  
• 1990 - Hao Chang ( China)
  
• 1991 - Fumiaki Imamura ( Japan)
  
• 1992 - Yasuro Kikuchi ( Japan)
  
• 1993 - Yi-Guo Sun ( China)
  
• 1994 - Satoshi Hiraoka ( Japan)
  
• 1995 - Hironori Hirata ( Japan)
  
• 1996 - Jun Liu ( China)
  
• 1997 - Jun Liu ( China)
  
• 1998 - Ch'an-U Kim ( South Korea)
  
• 1999 - Chae-Seong Yu ( South Korea)
  
• 2000 - Hideyuki Sakai ( Japan)
  
• 2001 - Dai-Chun Li ( China)
  
• 2002 - Li Fu ( China)
  
• 2004 - Kang-Wook Lee ( South Korea)
  
• 2005 - Yu-Qing Hu ( China)
  
• 2006 - Satoshi Hiraoka ( Japan)
  
• 2007 - Zi-Teng Shan ( China)
  
• 2008 - Sung-Bong Ha ( South Korea)
  
• 2009 - Yu-Ging Hu ( China)
  
• 2010 - Hong-Suk Song ( South Korea)
  
• 2011 - Bao-Xiang Bai ( China)
  
• 2012 - Zhi-Jian Qiao ( China)
  
• 2013 - Hyun-Jae Choi ( South Korea)
  
• 2014 - Yi-Tien Chan ( Chinese Taipei)