So this competition is starting in under 2 weeks time.

Does anyone know where the website is this year? I couldn't find anything apart from a report on http://ranka.intergofed.org/

Also, who is going this year?

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Remembering from the last time in China, 2 years ago:

1-2 games will be published in Ranka
the rest of the games will have to be haunted in weiqi.sina.cn or something like that.

The official website as they use to handle it in Japan probably won't be there.

For Costa Rica is going Luis Mariano Cajiao, 2D

A shame, it is nice to have an official website, so that you can view all the participants.

From what's on Ranka already, seems like Lukas Podpera is going for Czech Republic. Colin MacSweeny goes for Ireland. I heard Francis Roads is going for the UK (, despite not qualifying ).

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Ranka lists all the participants, just click PLAYERS at the top.

Thanks, I didn't expect that Ranka would have done that.

I see the UK has no representative, which surprises me a little. Probably the list isn't 100% accurate.

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If you check britgo.org, you will see that Francis qualifies quite easily, having the second-most number of points. Are we to send nobody because the person with most points is unable to go?

Best wishes.

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No aji, keshi, kifu or kikashi has been harmed in the compiling of this post.
http://www.gogod.co.uk

I checked this bit first.

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http://www.britgo.org/node/3679 whoops

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Anti-whoops: http://www.britgo.org/node/3683
Sam Aitken will play for the UK. Go Sam!!

Some games for the first round

Korea 4D vrs Brasil 3D: it is curious that in all the listings, the Korean guy is "only" 4D... May be a "typo"?
Serbia 5D vrs Chile 4k: CHile's player is the only woman in the tournament
Finland 5D vrs Costa Rica 2D
Taipei 7D vs Colombia 2D: Taipei's player is only 13
Sweden 5d vr Argentina 5D: Argentina's player this year is Eduardo Lopez, less know than Aguilar but almost as strong as him. This may be one of the best games in the first round!
Mexico (2d) vrs UK (4D): here goes the UK debut! FYI, the Mexican player has 4 years living in China. He stayed after the WMSG (something I should have done.....I regret I didn't)

ALSO, and very important, Nihon Ki In seems to be keeping the coverage
http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/wor ... pants.html

let's hope they update as last year, right away after the rounds!

Several people have commented on the South Korean player being only 4dan. There could be various explanations to this

Direction 1, he is '4d' in some korean sense of the word, meaning that he is actually 7d to awesome
Direction 2, he is actually a 4dan, which suggests some deliberate alteration of the qualification system for reasons we may not want to go into here.

Ireland plays South Africa

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Right now Thailand is having a strong game against Nakazono from Japan, an EX-WAGC champion.

And here is how South Korea beated Brasil

And here is what China did against Italy

North Korea wins his first game.. they are quite strong!

Would you happen to know which country North Korea beat? I can't seem to find his opponent's name here http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/wor ... pants.html

I did the same search!! I have no idea! initially because of the flag and the way the name may be spelled I think is Hong Kong, but the Dan level doesn't match

In a game where Thailand offered strong resistence, Japan wins showing how to take and keep control of a game!

Ok, North Korea won against an ADDED Chinese player, probably somebody didn't arrive or cancelled at the last moment

Sounds like this guy is going to be removed again, as Morocco didn't manage to make the event.

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