IMSA Elite Mind Games 2016

The International Mind Sports Association held its first Elite Mind Games in Huai'an, China,
from 25th February - 3rd March 2016.

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

Men Teams

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

1	Korea	Lee Donghoon	Park Jeonghwan	Kim Jiseok
2	China	Tang Weixing	Zhou Ruiyang	Shi Yue
3	Japan	Hirata Tomoya	Matsuura Yuta	Shibano Toramaru
4	Chinese Taipei	Chen Shih-Iuan	Lin Li-Hsiang	Lin Shih-Hsun
5	North America	Jiang Mingjiu 7p (US)	Eric Lui 1p (US)	Ryan Li (US)
6	Europe	Hui Fan 2p (FR)	Ali Jabarin 1p (IL)	Ilya Shikshin 1p (RU)

Played using round robin system.

No Team               1.     2.      3.      4.      5.     Pt (GW)
1  Korea             +5(3)  +2(2)   +3(3)   +4(2)   +6(3)    5 (13)
2  China             +6(3)  -1(1)   +5(3)   +3(3)   +4(3)    4 (13)
3  Japan             +4(2)  +6(3)   -1(0)   -2(0)   +5(2)    3  (7)
4  Chinese Taipei    -3(1)  +5(3)   +6(3)   -1(1)   -2(0)    2  (8)
5  North America     -1(0)  -4(0)   -2(0)   +6(2)   -3(1)    1  (3)
6  Europe            -2(0)  -3(0)   -4(0)   -5(1)   -1(0)    0  (1)

Ali Jabarin beat Ryan Li (US).

Individual Women

Played using double elimination system (with play-offs), some players seeded to round 2.

1. Yu Zhiying (China)
2. Choi Jeong (Korea)
3. Joanne Missingham (Chinese Taipei)

No Name                Co    W    1.      2.      3.      4.      5.      6.      7.
 1 Yu Zhiying          CN    5    ..     10+      3+      2-      5+      3+      2+       
 2 Choi Jeong          KR    3    ..      8+      4+      1+      ..      ..      1-       
 3 Joanne Missingham   CT    3    ..      6+      1-      8+      4+      1-      ..      
 4 Cao Youyin          CN    4    7+     11+      2-      6+      3-      5+      ..      
 5 Sarah Yu            CA    2    6-      ..      9+      7+      1-      4-      ..      
 6 Oh Yujin            KR    2    5+      3-     10+      4-      ..      ..      ..      
 7 Elvina Kalsberg     RU    1    4-      ..     12+      5-      ..      ..      ..       
 8 Yu Li-Chun          CT    2   12+      2-     11+      3-      ..      ..      ..      
 9 Rita Pocsai         HU    0   10-      ..      5-      ..      ..      ..      ..      
10 Nyu Eiko            JP    1    9+      1-      6-      ..      ..      ..      ..      
11 Hoshiai Shiho       JP    0    ..      4-      8-      ..      ..      ..      ..      
12 Natalia Kovaleva    RU    0    8-      ..      7-      ..      ..      ..      ..     

Pair Go

Played with Swiss system. Games broadcast live on Pandanet.

One of Europe's three pairs, Natalia Kovaleva and Ilya Shikshin, took fifth place.

Photos

1. Korea
2. China
3. Japan

No Names                                 Co    W    1.      2.      3.
1  Choi Jeong / Park Jeonghwan           KR    2    8+      4+      2+           
2  Yu Zhiying / Tang Weixing             CN    2    7+      3+      1-     
3  Hoshiai Shiho / Hirata Tomoya         JP    1    5+      2-      4+    
4  Joanne Missingham / Lin Li-Hsiang     CT    1    6+      1-      3-     
5  Natalia Kovaleva / Ilya Shikshin      RU    1    3-      7+      5+     
6  Sarah Yu / Ryan Li                    NA    1    4-      8+      6-      
7= Rita Pocsai / Hui Fan                 EU    0    2-      5-      ..     
7= Elvina Kalsberg /Ali Jabarin          EU    0    1-      6-      ..     

For further info visit the Ranka Online reports.