To fill an apparent void, here are the unchecked results of the 1st Asian Games at the Guangzhou Qiyuan, 23-26 November 2010.

MEN’S TEAM

(a) Final (26 November 2010)

South Korea beat China 4-1

(Yi Ch’ang-ho 1-0 Gu Li; Yi Se-tol 0-1 Kong Jie; Ch’oe Ch’eol-han 1-0 Zhou Ruiyang; Pak Cheong-hwan 1-0 Xie He; Kang Tong-yun 1-0 Liu Xing)

(b) 3rd Place Playoff

Japan beat Taiwan 3-2

(Yamashita Keigo 0-1 Cho U; Iyama Yuta 1-0 Chen Shiyuan; Takao Shinji 0-1 Lin Zhihan; Yuki Satoshi 1-0 Xiao Zhenghao; Akiyama Jiro 1-0 Zhou Junxun)

(c) Preliminary league

1. South Korea 6-0 (i.e. won six matches, lost none)
Round 1: Vietnam 5-0 (i.e. won on all five boards)
Round 2: China 4-1
Round 3: Bye
Round 4: Taiwan 4-1
Round 5: Thailand 5-0
Round 6: Japan 3-2
Round 7: Malaysia 5-0

(Individual scores: Yi Ch’ang-ho 1-1; Kang Tong-yun 4-1; Yi Se-tol 4-2; Cho Han-seong 6-0; Pak Cheong-hwan 6-0; Ch’oe Ch’eol-han 5-0)

2. China 5-1
Round 1: Bye
Round 2: South Korea 1-4
Round 3: Taiwan 4-1
Round 4: Thailand 4-1
Round 5: Japan 4-1
Round 6: Malaysia 5-0
Round 7: Vietnam 5-0

(Individual scores: Chang Hao 3-2; Gu Li 3-2; Liu Xing 3-1; Kong Jie 6-0; Xie He 3-1; Zhou Ruiyang 5-1)

3. Taiwan 4-2
Round 1: Malaysia 5-0
Round 2: Vietnam 5-0
Round 3: China 1-4
Round 4: South Korea 1-4
Round 5: Bye
Round 6: Thailand 5-0
Round 7: Japan 3-2

(Individual scores: Cho U 6-0; O Meien 2-2; Chen Shiyuan 3-3; Lin Zhihan 3-3; Xiao Zhenghao 4-2; Zhou Junxun 2-1)

4. Japan 3-3
Round 1: Thailand 5-0
Round 2: Bye
Round 3: Malaysia 5-0
Round 4: Vietnam 5-0
Round 5: China 1-4
Round 6: South Korea 2-3
Round 7: Taiwan 2-3

(Individual scores: Yamashita Keigo 5-1; Iyama Yuta 5-1; Takao Shinji 1-2; Yuki Satoshi 2-2; Yamada Kimio 3-3; Akiyama Jiro 3-0)

5. Thailand 2-4
Round 1: Japan 0-5
Round 2: Malayasia 4-1
Round 3: Vietnam 3-2
Round 4: China 1-4
Round 5: South Korea 0-5
Round 6: Taiwan 0-5
Round 7: Bye

(Individual scores: Charoensitthithien Vorawat 0-6; Taechaamnuayvit Nuttakrit 1-5; Bencharit Rit 3-3; Trairatananusorn Ruechagorn 2-3; Jirasophin Apidet 1-5; Rungruangtaweepongu Theera 1-3)

6. Vietnam 1-5
Round 1: South Korea 0-5
Round 2: Taiwan 0-5
Round 3: Thailand 2-3
Round 4: Japan 0-5
Round 5: Malaysia 3-2
Round 6: Bye
Round 7: China 0-5

(Individual scores: Hoang Nam Thang 2-4; Pham Minh Quang 0-6; Nguyen Manh Linh 1-5; Bui Ie Khanh Lam 1-5; Do Khanh Binh 1-5)

7. Malaysia 0-6
Round 1: Taiwan 0-5
Round 2: Thailand 1-4
Round 3: Japan 0-5
Round 4: Bye
Round 5: Vietnam 2-3
Round 6: China 0-5
Round 7: South Korea 0-5

(Individual scores: Teng Boon Ping 1-5; Mohd Zulkifli Mohd Zaid Waqiyuddin 1-4; Tiong Kae Soon 0-6; Leong Orpheus 0-6; Kew Chien Chong 1-5; Koh Song Sang 0-1)

Noteworthy result: Bencharit, 6-dan amateur from Thailand, beat Liu Xing 7-dan pro in Round 4.


WOMEN’S TEAM

(a) Final (26 November 2010)

South Korea beat China 2-1

(Yi Min-chi 1-0 Rui Naiwei; Kim Yun-yeong 1-0 Song Ronghui; Cho Hye-yeon 0-1 Tang Yi)

(b) 3rd Place Playoff

Taiwan beat Japan 2-1

(Xie Yimin 1-0 Suzuki Ayumi; Joanne Missingham 1-0 Yoshida Mika; Zhang Zhengping 0-1 Mukai Chiaki)

(c) Preliminary league

1. China 6-0
Round 1: Bye
Round 2: Taiwan 2-1
Round 3: Malaysia 3-0
Round 4: Japan 3-0
Round 5: South Korea 2-1
Round 6: North Korea 3-0
Round 7: Thailand 3-0

(Individual scores: Wang Chenxing 3-1; Rui Naiwei 3-0; Song Ronghui 5-1; Tang Yi 5-0)

2. South Korea 5-1
Round 1: Japan 2-1
Round 2: Bye
Round 3: North Korea 2-1
Round 4: Thailand 3-0
Round 5: China 1-2
Round 6: Taiwan 2-1
Round 7: Malaysia 3-0

(Individual scores: Yi Min-chi 4-1; Kim Yun-yeong 2-1; Cho Hye-yeon 4-1; Yi Seul-a 3-2)

3. Taiwan 4-2
Round 1: Thailand 3-0
Round 2: China 1-2
Round 3: Bye
Round 4: Malaysia 3-0
Round 5: Japan 3-0
Round 6: South Korea 2-1
Round 7: North Korea 1-2

(Individual scores: Xie Yimin 5-1; Joanne Missingham 2-3; Zhang Zhengping 3-1; Wang Jingyi 1-2)

4. Japan 4-2
Round 1: South Korea 1-2
Round 2: North Korea 3-0
Round 3: Thailand 3-0
Round 4: China 0-3
Round 5: Taiwan 1-2
Round 6: Malaysia 3-0
Round 7: Bye

(Individual scores: Suzuki Ayumi 2-2; Yoshida Mika 3-3; Mukai Chiaki 4-1; Osawa Narumi 2-1)

5. North Korea 4-2
Round 1: Malaysia 3-0
Round 2: Japan 0-3
Round 3: South Korea 1-2
Round 4: Bye
Round 5: Thailand 3-0
Round 6: China 0-3
Round 7: Taiwan 2-1

(Individual scores: Hwang Kyeong-chu 2-4; Cho Sin-seong 3-3; Kim Yu-mi 4-2)

6. Malaysia 1-5
Round 1: North Korea 0-3
Round 2: Thailand 2-1
Round 3: China 0-3
Round 4: Taiwan 0-3
Round 5: Bye
Round 6: Japan 0-3
Round 7: South Korea 0-3

(Individual scores: Suzanne Low 1-5; Fong Sok Nee 1-4; Lim Shu Wen 0-6; Chow Zhi Mei 0-1)

7. Thailand 0-6
Round 1: Taiwan 0-3
Round 2: Malyasia 1-2
Round 3: Japan 0-3
Round 4: South Korea 0-3
Round 5: North Korea 0-3
Round 6: Bye
Round 7: China 0-3

(Individual scores: Nawaruk Waraphan 0-4; Aroonphaichitra Pattraporn 0-6; Setthawong Simaporn 1-5; Mekmok Krongkamon 0-2)

Noteworthy results: Kim Yu-mi of North Korea beat pro Yi Seul-a of South Korea in Round 3. In Round 7 the North Koreans Kim and Cho Sin-seong beat pros Joanne Missingham (= Hei Jiajia) and Wang Jingyi (= O Keii).


PAIR GO

Final: Pak Cheong-hwan & Li Seul-a (South Korea) beat Xie He and Song Ronghui (China)
3rd Place Playoff: Ch’oe Ch’eol-han & Kim Yun-yeong (South Korea) beat Zhou Junxun & Joanne Missingham (Taiwan).

Pak and Li won despite being involved on the losing side in an irregularity in Round 2 of the league. Sudden death time limits were being used (45 minutes each). There was a rule that the chief referee could intervene when one side played abnormal moves just to win on time. The Chinese pair had about 1 minute left, the Koreans 4 minutes. Chinese chief referee Wu Yulin consulted Korea referee Kim Su-chang who spoke to the Korean pair and they then resigned.

With the recent news, I was wondering if North Korea played go internationally. I see there's a women's team - is there no men's team, or did they not qualify?

Also, it looks like their score is wrong. You have them 4-2, whereas in the actual results it looks like they're 3-3. Japan is wrong as well.

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Thank you for the final results. The results of Taiwan or noteworthy as well in my humble opinion, even if they field several Nihon Ki-in professionals. Who on this forum e.g. would have bet before on Cho U going undefeated playing as first board? (Taiwan, Japan, North Korea women teams all went 3-3, with all of them losing to South Korea and China, and Taiwan beating Japan beating North Korea beating Taiwan)

So I guess we can really say that Kong Jie is the best player in the world right now.

Maybe, if you send me his book : Sharpen the sword for ten years. After I read it, I will then be able to concur with you.

What makes you say that?

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