World Amateur Go Championship

The World Amateur Go Championship (WAGC) is an international tournament for amateur Go 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 (e.g. China, Japan, South Korea); in 2007 there were 68 participants.

Some of the participants have gone on to become top Go professionals.

Past champions

The names are ordered as Given name and Surname.

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
1979 [1]	Wei-Ping Nie ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Zu-De Chen ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Jia-Rui Chen ( ‹See TfM›   China)
1980 [2]	Fumiaki Imamura (  Japan )	Zu-De Chen ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Hajime Yasunaga (  Japan )
1981 [3]	Zhen-Zhong Shao ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Xiao-Chun Ma ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Bunsho Murakami (  Japan )
1982 [4]	Da-Yuan Cao ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Jin-Ha Yang ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Hironori Hirata (  Japan )
1983 [5]	Xiao-Chun Ma ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Hiroshi Miura (  Japan )	Fumiaki Imamura (  Japan )
1984 [6]	Qun Wang ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Chang-Hyuk Yoo (  South Korea )	Hironori Hirata (  Japan )
1985 [7]	Jian-Hong Wang ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Jia-Rui Chen (  Hong Kong )	Yasuro Kikuchi (  Japan )
1986 [8]	Jia-Rui Chen (  Hong Kong )	Yasuro Kikuchi (  Japan )	Xue-Lin Song ( ‹See TfM›   China)
1987 [9]	Fumiaki Imamura (  Japan )	Bin Yu ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Gwan-Cheol Lee (  South Korea )
1988 [10]	Wen-Dong Zhang ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Fumiaki Imamura (  Japan )	Ronald Schlemper (  Netherlands)
			Chul-Joong Kim (  South Korea )
1989 [11]	Ze-Wu Che ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Wen-He Cai (  Taiwan)	Hironori Hirata (  Japan )
1990 [12]	Hao Chang ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Quan-Wuk An (  South Korea )	Hiroshi Miura (  Japan )
1991 [13]	Fumiaki Imamura (  Japan )	Xia-Nyu Xia (  Taiwan)	Ronald Schlemper (  Netherlands)
1992 [14]	Yasuro Kikuchi (  Japan )	Young-Man Lee (  South Korea )	Qi-Yu Han ( ‹See TfM›   China)
1993 [15]	Yi-Guo Sun ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Soon-Joo Seo (  South Korea )	Hironori Hirata (  Japan )
1994 [16]	Satoshi Hiraoka (  Japan )	Chun-Hsun Chou (  Taiwan)	Chun Wang ( ‹See TfM›   China)
1995 [17]	Hironori Hirata (  Japan )	Hong-Yi Shi ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Ying Kan (  Hong Kong )
1996 [18]	Jun Liu ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Hironori Hirata (  Japan )	Yong-Man Yi (  South Korea )
1997 [19]	Jun Liu ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Hideyuki Sakai (  Japan )	Yeong-Sam Mun (  North Korea)
1998 [20]	Ch'an-U Kim (  South Korea)	Satoshi Hiraoka (  Japan )	Wen-Dong Zhao ( ‹See TfM›   China)
1999 [21]	Chae-Seong Yu (  South Korea)	Hideyuki Sakai (  Japan)	Pong-Il Ri (  North Korea)
2000 [22]	Hideyuki Sakai (  Japan)	Ho-Kil Pak (  North Korea)	Maleun-Saem Hong (  South Korea)
2001 [23]	Dai-Chun Li ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Moriei Kanazawa (  Japan)	Dong Ming Liu (  Australia)
2002 [24]	Li Fu ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Maleun-Saem Hong (  South Korea)	Yasuro Kikuchi (  Japan)
2003	Not held due to SARS outbreak.
2004 [25]	Kang-Wook Lee (  South Korea)	You-Zheng Lai (  Taiwan)	Li Fu ( ‹See TfM›   China)
2005 [26]	Yu-Qing Hu ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Tae-Weon Cho (  North Korea)	Cheng-Rui Yu (  Taiwan)
2006 [27]	Satoshi Hiraoka (  Japan)	Weixing Tang ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Tae-Weon Cho (  North Korea)
2007 [28]	Zi-Teng Shan ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Tong-Ha U (  South Korea)	Hironobu Mori (  Japan)
2008 [29]	Sung-Bong Ha (  South Korea)	Yu-Zheng Guo ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Fernando Aguilar (  Argentina)
2009 [30]	Yu-Ging Hu ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Shin-Hwan Yu (  South Korea)	Nai-San Chan (  Hong Kong)
2010 [31]	Hong-Suk Song (  South Korea)	Chen Wang ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Tae-Weon Cho (  North Korea)
2011 [32]	Baoxiang Bai ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Woo-Soo Choi (  South Korea)	Eric Lui (  United States)
2012 [33]	Zhi-Jian Qiao ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Hyun-Joon Lee (  South Korea)	Cheng-Hsun Chen (  Taiwan)
2013 [34]	Hyun-Jae Choi (  South Korea)	Yu-Qing Hu ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Artem Kachanovskyi (  Ukraine)
2014 [35]	Yi-Tien Chan (  Taiwan)	Tae-woong Wei (  South Korea)	Ruoran Wang ( ‹See TfM›   China)
2015 [36]	Changhun Kim (  South Korea)	Aohua Hu ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Jyun-Fu Lai (  Taiwan)
2016 [37]	Baoxiang Bai ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Kibaek Kim (  South Korea)	CHia-Cheng Hsu (  Taiwan)
2017 [38]	Baoxiang Bai ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Sang-bin Lee (  South Korea)	Yu-Cheng Lai (  Taiwan)
2018 [39]	Yi-Tien Chan (  Taiwan)	Sangcheon Kim (  South Korea)	Chen Wang ( ‹See TfM›   China)
2019 [40]	Chen Wang ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Jaesung Lee (  South Korea)	Nai-San Chan (  Hong Kong)
2020	Not held due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2021 [41]	Tianfang Ma ( ‹See TfM›   China)	I-Tien Chan (  Taiwan)	Dabeen Kim (  South Korea)
2022	Held online (Fox server).
2023 [42]	Jung Seon Kim (  South Korea)	Chukun Yang ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Yu-Cheng Lai (  Taiwan)
2024 [43]	Baoxiang Bai ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Jung Seon Kim (  South Korea)	Minoru Ozeki (  Japan)
2025 [44]	Tianfang Ma ( ‹See TfM›   China)	Minoru Ozeki (  Japan)	Sawoo Kim (  South Korea)

See also

• Go competitions
• Go players
• List of world Go champions
• List of world championships in mind sports

References

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41. Official Site
42. International Go Federation Report
43. Official Website
44. Tournament Results

External links

• World Amateur Go Championship all detailed results
• Sensei's Library WAGC page
• Official website of 28th WAGC with detailed results
• Official website of the 29th WAGC
• Official website of the 30th WAGC
• Official website of the 31st WAGC
• Official website of the 32nd WAGC