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.

The first round has been played. When nigiri, players choose color, due to the unusually high komi of Ing rules.

The opening ceremony was held on Casa Asia. There were short speeches and greetings from :

Menene Gras, director of Culture and Exhibitions of Casa Asia

Mikami Masaru, honorary president of the Spanish Go Association

Yang Yuchia, executive manager of the Ing Foundation

Oleg Gavrilov, EGF vicepresident

Marc Gonzalez, WYGC coordinator

Before the ceremony, instructions on how to apply the ING rules were given

Finally, all participants arrived. Due also to visa and plane reservation issues, the Russian players missed (and forfeited) the first round.

Unfortunately, and for very unclear reasons, the Spanish Embassy in Kyiv denied the visa to Bogdan Zhurakovskyi. He has had to be replaced by Spanish player Òscar Anguila.

Un dossier de prensa reducido, en formato ms-word, sin las fotos, está disponible, en castellano y catalán.

Un dossier de premsa reduït, en format ms-word, sense les fotos, està disponible, en castellà i català.

A reduced, picture-less press release in ms-word format is available for download, both in Spanish and Catalan.

The press release booklet (in pdf format) is available for download.

Basically it contains the same information as the web, and has the pictures of participants and guest officials. It is bilingual Catalan / English, except on pages intended for local passers-by / press or players.

A printed copy can be mailed under request to wygc@aego.biz.

Please note that the schedule of the first day (Monday 22nd) has changed a little bit. It is still subject to small variations (for non-playing activities only) on Friday and / or Thursday, due to some events that are being scheduled.

Since beginning of July, the names of all the participants are known. Information about them with pictures and game records will be published in the next days.

Finally, we got to know the Singapore and China participants. Registration is coming to its end …