WAGC

28th WAGC

WAGC

Thirteen-year-old Ziteng Shan of China won the 28th World Amateur Go Championship with a perfect score of eight wins. Coming second was Dong-Ha Woo from Korea and Hironobu Mori from Japan took third place, both with a score of seven wins.

Full Results Table

This year legendary Go master Go Seigen joined the opening ceremony of the championship as a very special guest. His presence was a great honour for the IGF and we were delighted to receive from him a special present, the original calligraphy that can be seen on the left.

Go Seigen (centre), Ogawa Tomoko (right) and Shigeno Yuki

Chu Wa is the transliteration in Japanese of this calligraphy kindly donated by Go Seigen to the IGF during the 28th WAGC. It can be translated as "Centre Harmony". As he explained, Go is not a fight but harmony between White and Black. In being neither right nor left, neither top nor bottom, harmony is maintained and is peace and the essence of Go.
Go Seigen wants to give it to everyone in the world.