Korean Prime Minister's Cup 2011

[Javaness2]

So it's starting in a fortnight or something, who's going this year?

Ireland - Rory Wales
UK - Andrew Kay

[Sverre]

Norway - Sverre Haga

[dankenzon]

Costa Rica: Juan Vargas

[lovely]

Anyone know who the Turkish representative will be? Or do I have to search for it myself?

[betterlife]

Switzerland: Benoît Félix

[hyperpape]

I don't know for sure about the US, but Zhaonian Chen qualified to go.

[Phelan]

Portugal: Cristóvão Neto

[HermanHiddema]

Gilles van Eeden will represent the Netherlands

[Laman]

Ondřej Šilt will represent Czechia. or at least i think so

[dankenzon]

In the main page

http://www.kpmc.or.kr/
select ENGLISH in the upper right

then in the menu, Tournament Guide, Player List:

the Chinese player is ONLY 11!! and it seems the Hong Kong one comes from the DISTANT future! (19999 typo)

[xed_over]

I don't know for sure about the US, but Zhaonian Chen qualified to go.

Frederick Balwit 1 kyu ?!
Who is he? Never heard of him. Why aren't we sending a dan level player? What was our selection process?

edit: congrats to Fredrick, btw. maybe I should try harder to qualify for these events myself

[quantumf]

Frederick Balwit 1 kyu ?!

I'm assuming this is some kind of bizarre error. My understanding is that the sponsors of this tournament do expect, with a little leeway permitted, that countries try to send their best players.

[oren]

edit: congrats to Fredrick, btw. maybe I should try harder to qualify for these events myself

I agree. Then I might see you at a tournament.

Though I'm also a bit flabbergasted at this one. I saw no mention of what happened here in any aga news.

[rubin427]

Frederick Balwit 1 kyu ?!
Who is he? Never heard of him.

Some searching suggests he's the AGF teacher of the year, 2011.

I wanted to check the AGA board minutes for Sept 2011 for more info, but seems they're not up yet.

Edit: grammar. there != they're

[Chew Terr]

Frederick Balwit 1 kyu ?!
Who is he? Never heard of him.

Some searching suggests he's the AGF teacher of the year, 2011.

I wanted to check the AGA board minutes for Sept 2011 for more info, but seems there not up yet.

Oh, Fritz? Well, at least it's someone really friendly. Met him at Congress and shared a couple of beers and a couple of particularly crazy games of go. Still curious how he qualified, friendly or no. =)