The first set of pictures by Mr Gabriel Costoya is available. We ask the players and guests to send us some, or to give us a link to a page where they intend to upload some.

Soon there will be more. This website is expected to grow in the next weeks.

The finals have just finished.

Korea senior has won China and China junior has won Korea.

The semifinals have finished, and the results are:

Senior:

SONG Sang-Min (KR) vs Igor NEMLY (RUS)
LAI Yu-Cheng (ROC) vs TANG Wei-Xing(CN)

Junior:

LIAO Xing-Wen(CN) vs Calvin SUN(US)
NA Hyun(KR) vs Joanne Jia-Jia MISSINGHAM(ROC)

Finals will be:

Senior: SONG Sang-Min (KR) vs TANG Wei-Xing(CN)

Junior: LIAO Xing-Wen(CN) vs NA Hyun(KR)

The results of the 5th round are available at: results page

This means the following qualified for semifinals (1 vs 4, 2 vs 3) :

senior :

1. Song San-Ming (KR) : 5/5
2. Lai Yu-Chen (TW) : 4/5
3. Tang Wei-Xing (CN) : 3/5
4. Igor Nemly (RU) : 3/5

junior :

1. Liao Xing-Wen (CN) : 5/5
2. Na Hyun […]

The 4th round results are available at: results page

Some games are being broadcast live on KGS.

Today the WYGC people visited the FC Barcelona stadium and museum. Players and team captains were offered a small souvenir.

The club had prepared a special reception, but since one executive (Enric Masip) who was supposed to meet us did not arrive on time due to a car crash that caused a big traffic jam.

The WYGC […]

It is quite amazing to see the WYGC participants playing a funny go variant during the pauses. It consists on a mix of go and 4-in-a-row. If you manage to play 4 stones in a row (even diagonal), you get an extra move. It has really funny tesujis, amongst other things, ladders don’t work.

Information and results about the WYGC appeared today in 2 newspapers : El Periodico de Catalunya and El Punt.

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senior : Korea’s Song is leading undefeated, followed by China, Russia, Taiwan ROC and Finland.

junior : China’s Liao leads undefeated, followed by Korea, USA and Taiwan ROC.

Complete results here.