World Youth Goe Championship 2004
This year the event was held from 17th to 21st August in Vancouver, Canada. The event is supported
by the Ing Chang-Ki Weiqi Educational Foundation.
It was dominated by young Chinese with professional grades and strong Koreans, as might be expected.
In the senior section China's Lingyi Gu won all games and then defeated Korea's Kipyo Hong in the final.
Japan and Taiwan were placed next followed by Russia's Ilia Chikchine and Czechia's Ondrej Silt, both 5 dan
and winning 3/5. France's Thomas Hubert won 2 games, but Netherland's Floris Barthel failed to win a game.
In the junior section Jung-Hwan Park of Korean beat Yulin Tong of China to win. Hong Kong took third and
Japan fourth. Poland's Mateusz Surma won 2 games and France's Thomas Debarre won 1 game.
Seniors (Under-18)
Pl.
|
No.
|
Country
|
Players
|
Rank
|
I
|
II
|
III
|
IV
|
V
|
Scores |
|
Results
|
Games |
Results |
Games |
Results |
Games |
Results |
Games
|
Results
|
Games |
Main |
Subsidiary |
|
| SJH |
BJH |
SFH |
BFH |
|
3
|
1
|
Korea
|
Kipyo Hong
|
6D
|
2-/w0
|
sgf
|
4+/w0
|
sgf
|
9+/w0
|
sgf
|
5+/w0
|
sgf
|
3-/b0
|
sgf
|
3
|
7
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
2
|
Japan
|
Shin Tamai
|
7D
|
1+/b0
|
sgf
|
3-/b0
|
sgf
|
6+/b0
|
sgf
|
9+/b0
|
sgf
|
5+/w0
|
sgf
|
4
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
3
|
China
|
Lingyi Gu
|
2P
|
4+/w0
|
sgf
|
2+/w0
|
sgf
|
5+/b0
|
sgf
|
10+/w0
|
sgf
|
1+/w0
|
sgf
|
5
|
|
|
|
|
|
9
|
4
|
USA
|
Mozheng Guan
|
7D
|
3-/b0
|
sgf
|
1-/b0
|
sgf
|
12+/b0
|
sgf
|
11+/b0
|
sgf
|
6-/w0
|
sgf
|
2
|
1
|
11
|
|
|
|
7
|
5
|
Canada
|
Richard Liang
|
6D
|
6+/w0
|
sgf
|
7+/b0
|
sgf
|
3-/w0
|
sgf
|
1-/b0
|
sgf
|
2-/b0
|
sgf
|
2
|
5
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
6
|
Russia
|
Ilia Chikchine
|
5D
|
5-/b0
|
sgf
|
8+/w0
|
sgf
|
2-/w0
|
sgf
|
7+/b0
|
sgf
|
4+/b0
|
sgf
|
3
|
6
|
6
|
|
|
|
8
|
7
|
France
|
Thomas Keisuke Hubert
|
4D
|
8+/w0
|
sgf
|
5-/w0
|
sgf
|
10-/w0
|
sgf
|
6-/w0
|
sgf
|
11+/b0
|
sgf
|
2
|
2
|
|
|
|
|
10
|
8
|
Thailand
|
Ruechagom Trairananusom
|
2D
|
7-/b0
|
sgf
|
6-/b0
|
sgf |
11+/b0
|
sgf
|
12+/b0
|
sgf
|
9-/b0
|
sgf
|
2
|
1
|
8
|
|
|
|
4
|
9
|
Taipei
|
Yen-Lin Feng
|
1D
|
10+/w0
|
sgf
|
12+/b0
|
sgf
|
1-/b0
|
sgf
|
2-/w0
|
sgf
|
8+/w0
|
sgf
|
3
|
6
|
7
|
|
|
|
6
|
10
|
Czech Republic
|
Ondrej Silt
|
5D
|
9-/b0
|
sgf
|
11+/b0
|
sgf
|
7+/b0
|
sgf
|
3-/b0
|
sgf
|
12+/w0
|
sgf
|
3
|
3
|
|
|
|
|
12
|
11
|
Netherlands
|
Floris Pieter Barthel
|
1D
|
12-/w0
|
sgf
|
10-/w0
|
sgf |
8-/w0
|
sgf
|
4-/w0
|
sgf
|
7-/w0
|
sgf
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
|
11
|
12
|
Singapore
|
Lai Wei
|
3D
|
11+/b0
|
sgf
|
9-/w0
|
sgf
|
4-/w0
|
sgf
|
8-/w0
|
sgf
|
10-/b0
|
sgf
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
Semi-finals
|
Lingyi Gu (CN) vs. Yen-Lin Feng (TW)
|
sgf
|
1st
Place
|
Lingyi Gu (CN) |
|
Shin Tamai (JP) vs. Kipyo Hong (KR)
|
sgf
|
2nd
Place
|
Kipyo Hong (KR) |
|
Finals
|
Lingyi Gu (CN) vs. Kipyo Hong (KR) |
sgf
|
3rd
Place
|
Shin Tamai (JP) |
|
| Shin Tamai (JP) vs. Yen-Lin Feng (TW) |
sgf
|
4th
Place
|
Yen-Lin Feng (TW) |
|
Juniors (Under-12)
Pl.
|
No.
|
Country
|
Players
|
Rank
|
I
|
II
|
III
|
IV
|
V
|
Scores |
Results
|
Games |
Results |
Games
|
Results |
Games |
Results |
Games
|
Results |
Games |
Main |
Subsidiary |
| SJH |
BJH |
SFH |
BFH |
6
|
1
|
USA
|
Curtis Tang
|
6D
|
2+/w0
|
sgf
|
9+/w0
|
sgf
|
3-/b0
|
sgf
|
7-/w0
|
sgf
|
10-/b0
|
sgf
|
2
|
5
|
|
|
|
7
|
2
|
Canada
|
Bo Yang Zhan
|
1D
|
1-/b0
|
sgf
|
4-/b0
|
sgf
|
8+/b0
|
sgf
|
6+/w0
|
sgf
|
9-/w0
|
sgf
|
2
|
2
|
|
|
|
1
|
3
|
China
|
Yulin Tong
|
1P
|
4+/b0
|
sgf
|
5+/b0
|
sgf
|
1+/w0
|
sgf
|
10+/w0
|
sgf
|
7+/b0
|
sgf
|
5
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
4
|
Taipei
|
Jia-Cheng Sheu
|
1D
|
3-/w0
|
sgf
|
2+/w0
|
sgf
|
10-/w0
|
sgf
|
5+/w0
|
sgf
|
6+/w0
|
sgf
|
3
|
3
|
|
|
|
9
|
5
|
France
|
Thomas Debarre
|
2K
|
6+/b0
|
sgf
|
3-/w0
|
sgf
|
7-/b0
|
sgf
|
4-/b0
|
sgf
|
8-/b0
|
sgf
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
10
|
6
|
Singapore
|
Chi-Chian Lee
|
1K
|
5-/w0
|
sgf
|
8-/w0
|
sgf
|
9-/b0
|
sgf
|
2-/b0
|
sgf
|
4-/b0
|
sgf
|
0
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
7
|
Hong Kong
|
Naisan Chen
|
5D
|
8+/w0
|
sgf
|
10-/w0
|
sgf
|
5+/w0
|
sgf
|
1+/b0
|
sgf
|
3-/w0
|
sgf
|
3
|
5
|
|
|
|
8
|
8
|
Poland
|
Surma Mateusz
|
3K
|
7-/b0
|
sgf
|
6+/b0
|
sgf
|
2-/w0
|
sgf
|
9-/w0
|
sgf
|
5+/w0
|
sgf
|
2
|
1
|
|
|
|
4
|
9
|
Japan
|
Rissei Hino
|
6D
|
10-/w0
|
sgf
|
1-/b0
|
sgf
|
6+/w0
|
sgf
|
8+/b0
|
sgf
|
2+/b0
|
sgf
|
3
|
4
|
|
|
|
2
|
10
|
Korea
|
Jung-Hwan Park
|
5D
|
9+/b0
|
sgf
|
7+/b0
|
sgf
|
4+/b0
|
sgf
|
3-/b0
|
sgf
|
1+/w0
|
sgf
|
4
|
|
|
|
|
Semi-finals
|
Yulin Tong (CN) vs. Rissei Hino (JP)
|
sgf
|
1st
Place
|
Jung-Hwan Park (KR) |
Jung-Hwan Park (KR) vs. Naisan Chen (HK)
|
sgf
|
2nd
Place
|
Yulin Tong (CN) |
Finals
|
Yulin Tong (CN) vs. Jung-Hwan Park (KR) |
sgf
|
3rd
Place
|
Naisan Chen (HK) |
| Rissei Hino (JP) vs. Naisan Chen (HK) |
sgf
|
4th
Place
|
Rissei Hino (JP) |
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