SportAccord held its fourth World Mind Games in Beijing, China, from 10th - 17th December 2014.
Go teams from six countries/regions took part:
China, Korea, Japan, Chinese Taipei, the Americas and Europe.
Hajin Lee and Kiaxia Tuo acted as Go Ambassadors.
Teams were as follows (oriental teams family name first):
1 | Korea | Park Young Hun 9p | Na Hyun 9p | Kang Dong Yoon 9p |
2 | China | Shi Yue 9p | Mi Yuting 9p | Tuo Jiaxi 9p |
3 | Chinese Taipei | Chen Shih-Iuan 9p | Lin Li-Hsiang 6p | Chang Che-Hao 5p |
4 | Japan | Yuki Satoshi 9p | Ida Atsushi 8p | Seto Taiki 7p |
5 | Europe | Hui Fan 2p (FR) | Alexandr Dinerchtein 3p (RU) | Ilya Shikshin 7d (RU) |
6 | North America | Mingjiu Jiang 7d (US) | Huiren Yang 1p (US) | Daniel Daehyuk Ko 7d (US) |
Played using round robin system.
No Team 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt (GW) 1 China +6(3) +2(2) +3(2) +4(2) +5(3) 5 (12) 2 Korea +3(2) -1(1) +4(2) +5(3) +6(3) 4 (11) 3 Japan -2(1) +5(3) -1(1) +6(3) +4(2) 3 (10) 4 Chinese Taipei +5(3) +6(3) -2(1) -1(1) -3(1) 2 (9) 5 North America -4(0) -3(0) +6(2) -2(0) -1(0) 1 (2) 6 Europe -1(0) -4(0) -5(1) -3(0) -2(0) 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 5p CN 5 11+ 9+ 7+ 3+ .. .. 2+ 2 Kim Chae Young 2p KR 5 12+ 5+ 3- 9+ 5+ 3+ 1- 3 Rui Naiwei 9p CN 3 .. 10+ 2+ 1- 4+ 2- .. 4 Chang Kai-Hsin 4p CT 3 8- .. 11+ 6+ 3- 5+ .. 5 Joanne Missingham 6p CT 2 .. 2- 10+ 7+ 2- 4- .. 6 Svetlana Shikshina 3p RU 1 10- .. 12+ 4- .. .. .. 7 Choi Jeong 5p KR 1 .. 8+ 1- 5- .. .. .. 8 Natalia Kovaleva 5d RU 1 4+ 7- 9- .. .. .. .. 9 Fujisawa Rina 2p JP 1 .. 1- 8+ 2- .. .. .. 10 Okuda Aya 3p JP 1 6+ 3- 5- .. .. .. .. 11 Irene Sha 6d CA 0 1- .. 4- .. .. .. .. 12 Dina Burdakova 5d RU 0 2- .. 6- .. .. .. ..
Played with knockout system with play offs.
No Names Co W 1. 2. 3. 1 Yu Zhiying / Mi Yuting CN 3 7+ 4+ 2+ 2 Choi Jeong / Na Hyun KR 2 8+ 3+ 1- 3 Chang Kai-Hsin / Lin Li-Hsiang CT 2 6+ 2- 4+ 4 Fujisawa Rina / Ida Atsushi JP 1 5+ 1- 3- 5 Svetlana Shikshina / Ilya Shikshin RU 1 4- 7+ 6+ 6 Natalia Kovaleva / Hui Fan EU 1 3- 8+ 5- 7 Irene Sha / Daniel Daehyuk Ko NA 0 1- 5- .. 8 Dina Burdakova / Alexandr Dinerchtein RU 0 2- 6- ..
For further info visit the Ranka Online reports and SportAccord World Mind Games site.