SportAccord World Mind Games 2013

SportAccord held its third World Mind Games in Beijing, China, from 11th - 18th December 2013.

Go teams from six countries/regions took part:
China, Korea, Japan, Chinese Taipei, the Americas and Europe.

Natalia Kovaleva and Yu Zhiying acted as Go Ambassadors.

Men Teams

Teams were as follows (oriental teams family name first):

1KoreaPark Jeong Hwan 9pKim Jiseok 9pCho Hanseung 9p
2ChinaFan Tingyu 9pZhou Ruiyang 9pXi Wang 9p
3Chinese TaipeiChou Chun-Hsun 9pWang Yuan-Jyun 6pLin Chun-Yen 6p
4JapanFujita Akihiko 4pHirata Tomoya 3pTsuruta Kazushi 2p
5EuropeHui Fan 2p (FR)Ilya Shikshin 7d (RU)Pavol Lisy 6d (SK)
6North AmericaHuiren Yang 1p (US)Daniel Daehyuk Ko 7d (US)Yongfei Ge 7d (CA)

Played using round robin system.

No Team               1.     2.      3.      4.      5.     Pt (GW)
1  Korea             +3(2)  +4(3)   +5(3)   +6(3)   +2(2)    5 (13)
2  China             +6(3)  +3(3)   +4(3)   +5(3)   -1(1)    4 (13)
3  Chinese Taipei    -1(1)  -2(0)   +6(3)   +4(2)   +5(2)    3  (8)
4  Japan             +5(3)  -1(0)   -2(0)   -3(1)   +6(2)    2  (6)
5  Europe            -4(0)  +6(3)   -1(0)   -2(0)   -3(1)    1  (4)
6  North America     -2(0)  -5(0)   -3(0)   -1(0)   -4(1)    0  (1)

Individual Women

Played using double elimination system, some players seeded to round 2.

  1. Yu Zhiying (China)
  2. Wang Chenxing (China)
  3. Park Jieun (Korea)
  4. Chang Chen-Ping (Chinese Taipei)
  5. Svetlana Shikshina (Russia)
No Name                Gr Co    W    1.      2.      3.      4.      5.      6.      7.
 1 Yu Zhiying          4p CN    4   12+     10+      3+      2+      ..      ..      2+       
 2 Wang Chenxing       5p CN    5    ..      9+      6+      1-      5+      3+      1-       
 3 Park Jieun          9p KR    4    ..      4+      1-      6+      4+      2-      ..      
 4 Chang Chen-Ping     3p CT    3    8+      3-     10+      7+      3-      5+      ..      
 5 Svetlana Shikshina  3p RU    2    9-      ..     11+      8+      2-      4-      ..      
 6 Joanne Missingham   6p CT    1    ..      7+      2-      4-      ..      ..      ..      
 7 Oh Jeonga           2p KR    1   11+      6-      9+      3-      ..      ..      ..       
 8 Natalia Kovaleva    5d RU    1    4-      ..     12+      5-      ..      ..      ..      
 9 Fujisawa Rina       2p JP    1    5+      2-      7-      ..      ..      ..      ..      
10 Yoshida Mika        8p JP    1    ..      1-      4-      ..      ..      ..      ..      
11 Sarah Jin Yu        6d CA    0    7-      ..      5-      ..      ..      ..      ..      
12 Dina Burdakova      5d RU    0    1-      ..      8-      ..      ..      ..      ..     

Pair Go

Played with knockout system with play offs.

  1. China ( Wang Chenxing / Zhou Ruiyang )
  2. Chinese Taipei ( Missingham Joanne / Wang Yuan-Jyun )
  3. Korea ( Park Jieun / Kim Jiseok )
No Names                                 Co    W    1.      2.      3.
1  Wang Chenxing / Zhou Ruiyang          CN    3    8+      4+      2+     
2  Joanne Missingham / Wang Yuan-Jyun    CT    2    5+      3+      1-           
3  Park Jieun / Kim Jiseok               KR    2    7+      2-      4+     
4  Fujisawa Rina / Fujita Akihiko        JP    1    6+      1-      3-    
5  Dina Burdakova / Pavol Lisy           EU    1    2-      7+      6+     
6  Svetlana Shikshina / Ilya Shikshin    RU    1    4-      8+      5-     
7  Sarah Jin Yu / Daniel Daehyuk Ko      NA    0    3-      5-      ..      
8  Natalia Kovaleva / Hui Fan            EU    0    1-      6-      ..     

For further info visit the

Ranka Online reports and SportAccord World Mind Games site.