World Amateur Go Championship
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The World Amateur Go Championship (WAGC) is an international tournament for amateur Go
Go (board game)
Go , is an ancient board game for two players that originated in China more than 2,000 years ago...

 players, held once a year since 1979. The organising body is the International Go Federation (IGF). Each participating country sends one player, although in the beginning of the contest there were multiple players from the stronger Go Countries (Eg: Japan, China); in 2007 there were 68 participants. Some of the participants have gone on to become top professional
Go professional
A Go professional is a professional player of the game of Go. The minimum standard to acquire a professional diploma through one of the major go organisations is very high. The competition is tremendous, and prize incentives for champion players are very large...

 players.

Past Champions

Ordinal Year Champion Champion's Country
1st 1979 Nie Weiping
Nie Weiping
Nie Weiping in Shen, Hebei, China) is a professional Go player.- Biography :Nie began learning Go at the age of nine and won the inaugural World Amateur Go Championship in 1979. Nie was given 9 dan rank in 1982. He became famous in the Go world after leading China to victory in the China-Japan...

China
China
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2nd 1980 Imamura Fumiaki Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

3rd 1981 Shao Zhenzhong China
4th 1982 Cao Dayuan
Cao Dayuan
Cáo Dàyuán , born January 26, 1962) is a professional Go player.- Biography :Cao started learning Go when he was 11. He won the 4th World Amateur Go Championship in 1982 and turned professional in 1985. He was promoted to 9 dan in 1986....

China
5th 1983 Ma Xiaochun
Ma Xiaochun
Ma Xiaochun is a Chinese professional Go player.- Biography :Ma was born in Zhejiang, China. He began playing Go at the age of nine and was awarded 7 dan rank in 1982. In 1983, Ma was promoted to 9 dan. He visited Japan in 1982 and later won the World Amateur Go Championship in 1983...

China
6th 1984 Wang Qun China
7th 1985 Wang Jianhong China
8th 1986 Chan Ka Yui Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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9th 1987 Imamura Fumiaki Japan
10th 1988 Zhang Wendong China
11th 1989 Che Zewu China
12th 1990 Chang Hao
Chang Hao
Chang Hao is a professional Go player. He is a 9 dan Go player from China. He is China's best player of the 1990s and one of the best in the world. Growing up he was a prodigy in China. He has won many titles, two of them international titles. He is best friends with Lee Chang-ho, whom he most...

China
13th 1991 Imamura Fumiaki Japan
14th 1992 Kikuchi Yasuro Japan
15th 1993 Sun Yiguo China
16th 1994 Hiraoka Satoshi Japan
17th 1995 Hirata Hironori Japan
18th 1996 Liu Jun China
19th 1997 Liu Jun China
20th 1998 Kim Ch'an-u Korea
South Korea
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21st 1999 Yu Chae-seong Korea
22nd 2000 Sakai Hideyuki Japan
23rd 2001 Li Daichun China
24th 2002 Fu Li China
2003 Not held due to SARS
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome is a respiratory disease in humans which is caused by the SARS coronavirus . Between November 2002 and July 2003 an outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong nearly became a pandemic, with 8,422 cases and 916 deaths worldwide according to the WHO...

 outbreak.
25th 2004 Kang Wook Lee Korea
26th 2005 Hu Yuqing China
27th 2006 Hiraoka Satoshi Japan
28th 2007 Shan Ziteng China
29th 2008 Ha Sung Bong Korea
30th 2009 Hu Yuqing China
31st 2010 Hong-suk Song South Korea
32nd 2011 Baoxiang Bai China

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