Sung　Bong Ha of South Korea won the 29th WAGC with a perfect score, 8-0, after defeating Hong Kong in the last round.
The rest of the top places aren’t settled yet, but it looks like Fernando Aguilar of Argentina is assured of 2nd place if he wins against Israel in the last round (due to his high SOS), while China and Japan fight for the 3rd place.
The 29th WAGC (World Amateur Go Championship) reached its halfpoint after 4 rounds out of 8.
The results so far are very surprising: out of the 5 players with perfect score, only 2 are from Asia (the representatives of China and S. Korea) while the other three are from Luxembourg (the WAGC veteran Laurent Heiser), Argentina (the famous Fernando Aguilar), and Czech Republic (Jan Hora).
Japan has only 3 points after the loss to Korea, and same for Hong Kong after losing to China.
Taiwan lost to both Thailand and Hungary so it’s out of the game this year.
Is this going to be a “Revolution WAGC”? We’ll see in the next few rounds.
Takao Shinji had a good start in the defense of his Honinbo title: he won the first game against Hane Naoki by 3.5 points.
Here is the game record.
Next game will be played on May 27th and 28th.
Hane Naoki is challenging the Honinbo title holder, Takao Shinji.
The game will conclude tomorrow (May 15 in Japan).
Round 3 of Ing Cup 2008 was played on May 4th.
After defeating Chang Hao in the previous round, Cho Chikun lost to Lee Changho by 3 points.
Lee Sedol of Korea defeated Kong Jie of China by 11 points.
Choi Cheolhan of Korea defeated Piao Wenyao of China by resignation.
And Liu Xing of China, who seems to be the surprise of the tournament so far, defeated Park Yeonghun by resignation thus becoming the only Chinese player to play in the semifinals.
The semifinals will take place sometime in September and will consist of best-of-three matches. Lee Changho will play against Lee Sedol, and Choi Cheolhan will play against Liu Xing.
Cho Chikun eliminated Chang Hao of China (previous Ing Cup winner) in round 2.
Looks like Cho Sensei is back in shape after his loses in Kisei and Judan earlier this year. He will play against Lee Changho in round 3.
The only other Japanese player, O Meien, was eliminated by Liu Xing of China.
Next round will be played in 2 days. There are 4 players from Korea, 3 from China, and 1 from Japan.
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