From august 31th to September 5 (plust one day before and after for arrivals and departures)
In the AER building in Sendai, Japan.

Can we start asking who are attending from each country?

Merlijn Kuin (6d) for the Netherlands.

Why is it in late summer instead of end of May as it always was?

Because of the earthquake.

That's what Ranka says..

http://intergofed.org/13-igf-news-feed/ ... nship.html

Is it my imagination, or is the average age of contestants getting lower over the past few years?

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).

There is one woman this year. How common is that?

There was one female player in 2012 too (but none in 2011). You can see previous entrants by tweaking the numbers in the url.

Franz Josef Dickhut (6d) for Germany

And we have an official website

http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/wor ... pants.html

and the participants list!

The favorites are obviously the Korean and the super strong chinese Hu Yuquing

By the way, the poster is nice!!

Some notes aside:
since the last 3-4 years, the overall organization has improved a lot in the WAGC.

They have this template and had added faster selected games uploads and more up-to-moment results.

So we can really have a close real-time idea what's going on.

How do you know all this? And what poster are you referring to?

Suzanne D'Bel Low Khin Su, Malaysia. She attended the European Go Congress during the second week, where I played against her in the main tournament (I made mistakes in the opening and then fought back in the endgame to win by 0,5 points), in a side tournament and three friendly games (of which she won one). As Black, she likes to start at tengen and use it for attacking, while omitting last defensive moves if tengen serves for remote defense.

I don't get what the purpose of your question is. If you are interested in the matter enough, you can find out a lot about it, either from the people that participate, or from the development of the WAGC site over the years.

Also, and I hope I'm not offering too much personal info, but dankenzon has participated in the WAGC several times, and has reported on them before, so he has had a more inside look at it.

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Good Go = Shape.
Associação Portuguesa de Go

Why the antagonistic response? I was genuinely interested. WAGC attendees are not frequent posters on this forum. The site has improved a little, but it's not really a good resource for up the minute results and information. When they start broadcasting live tv streams then I'll be impressed

Sorry, I read your question as putting into question dankenzon's information posts. I misinterpreted. :p

But you're wrong on wagc attendees not posting frequently here. RobertJasiek has attended the WAGC a few times, and I think there are others. HermanHiddema, maybe?

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a1h1 [1d]: You just need to curse the gods and defend.
Good Go = Shape.
Associação Portuguesa de Go

Once:) Other travels were for other events.

I wish

There are several other users here that have participated, T Mark Hall, Javaness, Conanbatt (aka Kaya.gs) and unkx80 among them. And I'm sure there's people here that have visited without playing.

Yeah, true, but they don't write much about the WAGC specifically. I guess they need to be asked specific questions.

The WACG has started, first round results are up at: http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/wor ... esult.html