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The 30th WAGC (World Amateur Go Championship) started in Shizuoka, Japan. This year there are 70 players from 70 countries. The International Go Federation has clearly made a good job in spreading Go and more and more countries over the years. Round one is over. No surprises here: the strong Asian countries (Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan) have all won. Everybody is wondering if any non-Asian country will end up in the top three. If anyone would accomplish this performance, it would be one of the players of US (Eric Lui), Czechia (Ondrej Silt, ex-insei) or Hungary (Csaba Mero, ex-insei) – all these won first round as well. Here are some interesting interviews with some participants on the Ranka webpage. Also, one can follow the tournament results so far here and see the game records here.

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