30 May - WAGC news
Posted by ian on May 29th, 2010After a good start in the competition, John had a bit of an unlucky draw in the closing rounds. He finished in 52nd place with 2 wins and a lot of SOS.
Full results table here.
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21 May - General News
Posted by ian on May 21st, 2010The 31st World Amateur Go Championship will be taking place in China this year. Ireland will be represented by the venerable John Gibson. You can follow the action via the ranka online magazine.
Update - John won his first round game, see article for details.
WAGC Results
Posted by ian on May 30th, 2009Brian Gallagher finished on 3/8 points, securing 52 place for Ireland. He scored wins over Cyprus, Phillipines and Chile.
China’s Yuqing Hu won the event for the second time. See ranka online for excellent coverage.
General News - May 27
Posted by ian on May 27th, 2009Today the World Amateur Go Championship has started. This year there are two places to follow the action and the fortunes of our representative, Brian Gallagher. As well as the official website, there is also the excellent ranka website, with interviews, reports and reviews.
Also Steve Flinter has withdrawn from this year’s Top 8.
Ireland fails to win WAGC
Posted by ian on June 2nd, 2008Ireland failed to win the World Amateur Championship again this year.
Ian managed only 52nd place with 3 wins from 8, beating Peru, Bulgaria and Azerbaijan. Hopefully some games will be added shortly.
You can find some photos of the event at flickr .
WAGC Game Record - Round 7
Posted by olivier on August 24th, 2007In round 7 of the WAGC, Noel played against Luxembourg.
The game record is available for download.
Noel Games from WAGC 2007
Posted by olivier on June 17th, 2007Here are the SGF files for some of the games played by Noel at the WAGC.
Feel free to review the games and send me the SGF file updated with your comments and I will upload them on this site.
Round 1: Noel Vs H. Araki (Morocco)
Round 3: Noel Vs Choi (Australia)
Round 4: Noel Vs Luis Caravaijo [...]
WAGC Game Reviews Wednesday 20th of June
Posted by olivier on June 13th, 2007Noel has kindly offered to review his games played recently at the WAGC.
Everybody is invited to join and comment.
Where: Pembroke Pub, Pembroke Street, Dublin 2.
When: Wednesday 20th of June at 8PM.
Irish Results at the 28th WAGC
Posted by olivier on June 13th, 2007This year, Noel Mitchell was our representative at the World Amateur Go Championship in Tokyo.
The championship was won by Chinese player Ziteng SHAN .
Noel won 3 games out of 8 and finishes in 44th place out of 68 players.
The full result table can be found here.
Noel recorded his first game, which can be found [...]
Go in Kyoto
Posted by stephen on June 20th, 2006I (Steve) had the pleasure of spending a few days in Kyoto in early June following the WAGC in Sasebo. One of the things I managed was to visit a traditional Go salon. I had previously discovered that there was a go salon just around the corner from the hotel in which I [...]
