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.
Teams were as follows (oriental teams family name first):
1 | Korea | Park Jeong Hwan 9p | Kim Jiseok 9p | Cho Hanseung 9p |
2 | China | Fan Tingyu 9p | Zhou Ruiyang 9p | Xi Wang 9p |
3 | Chinese Taipei | Chou Chun-Hsun 9p | Wang Yuan-Jyun 6p | Lin Chun-Yen 6p |
4 | Japan | Fujita Akihiko 4p | Hirata Tomoya 3p | Tsuruta Kazushi 2p |
5 | Europe | Hui Fan 2p (FR) | Ilya Shikshin 7d (RU) | Pavol Lisy 6d (SK) |
6 | North America | Huiren 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)
Played using double elimination system, some players seeded to round 2.
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- .. .. .. ..
Played with knockout system with play offs.
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- ..
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