Another event at the 33rd World Amateur Go Championship was the annual General Meeting of the International Go Federation. This took place on May 12 in the conference room at the Baiyun Hotel, following the orientation meeting. The general meeting … Continue reading
By 2:35 p.m. on Saturday, May 12, most of the contestants in the 33rd World Amateur Go Championship had made a good start on recovering from jetlag, had sampled the breakfast and lunch buffets at Guangzhou’s Baiyun Hotel, and were … Continue reading
The 33rd World Amateur Go Championship will be held in Guangzhou, China, May 11-17, 2012. It is the first time that this event will take place in South China. Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital city of Guangdong … Continue reading
The World Mind Games ended with a closing ceremony and a huge banquet on December 16th at the Beijing Intercontinental Grand Hotel. Ms Hou Yulan, Deputy Secretary General of the Beijing People’s Government of Beijing Municipality, and Mr Hein Verbruggen, … Continue reading
December 12 was a rest day for the go competition at the SportAccord World Mind Games, but for a dozen or so of the players and officials, it was an opportunity to pay an afternoon visit to the Zhang Guan … Continue reading
The opening ceremony for the SportAccord World Mind Games was a spectacle on just the right scale. It began at 8:00 p.m., after the first round of play, with a parade of players and referees representing all five disciplines onto … Continue reading
The first go event at the World Mind Games in Beijing is a round robin competition for six mixed teams, each including one woman, representing China, Chinese Taipei, Europe, Japan, Korea, and the United States of America. The schedule was … Continue reading
Christmas is coming soon, but for go players, chess players, draughts players, xianqi players, and contract bridge players another treat is coming first: the SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing. One hundred fifty intellectual athletes, world-class players of these five … Continue reading
The winner of SportAccord Online Go Tournament is Masahiro HIDAKA from Japan. Congratulations! He will receive an invitation to the first SportAccord World Mind Games (return transportation ticket to the venue in Beijing, China, entry ticket to the Games, accommodation, … Continue reading
An opening ceremony and reception for the 32nd World Amateur Go Championship was held at the Ichibata Hotel in Matsue on the evening of May 28, with Ms Hitoko Masuda, a smart-looking and highly professional free-lance announcer, acting as master … Continue reading