Go at the 2008 World Mind Sports Games

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The British Go Association's UK players for the Individual Women's Go event, at the 1st WMSG held in Beijing in 2008

The ancient board game of Go was one of the 5 mind sports which featured at the inaugural World Mind Sports Games, held in Beijing, China in October 2008. There were six gold medals in Go events, within thirty-five gold medals vied for by 2,763 competitors (560 of whom were Go players), from 143 countries.

One feature of this Go games is that it was the first time in history an international tournament of professional Go used the Proposed Rules of Go conceived by Toshio Ikeda (1923-1974). [1] [2] [3] This was deemed as an important trial of unifying the rules of Go. [4]

About the rules

There are no unified rules of Go. The two major scoring systems are so-called scoring by area and scoring by territory. Toshio Ikeda, a Japanese electrical engineer then working for Fujitsu, began his study on the rules in late 1960s, and published his work by a book On The Rules Of Go. Ikeda argued that the Chinese rules of Go, which use scoring by area, are almost perfect, except for one drawback, which was shown in an example named "the problem of reinforcing".[5] In fact, the focus issue is, how to define "the last competitive move". Ikeda found the solution, that is, to redefine the end of the game, and neutralize the value of the last move.[6][7]

Ikeda died in 1974. In 1990s, Chen Zu-yuan, a Chinese engineer and amateur Go player, published his study on the rules of Go by a book,[8] in which he introduced Ikeda's work to Chinese readers. Chen does not like Ikeda's design, but after years of pondering, Chen made a compromise and proposed to WMSG to use this design in the inaugural 2008 games.[9] [10] Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote".

Medal table

Under the auspices of the International Go Federation 560 players participated in six medal events in Beijing. South Korea won half of the 18 medals and all were swept by competitors from Eastern Asia.

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's Individual Template:Flagicon Kang Dongyun 7p[lower-alpha 1] Template:Flagicon Park Jungsang 9p Template:Flagicon Li Zhe 6p
Women's Individual Template:Flagicon Song Ronghui 1p Template:Flagicon Lee Minjin 5p Template:Flagicon Pak Chi-eun 9p
Open Template:Flagicon Jo Tae-Won 7d [11] Template:Flagicon Ham Youngwoo 7d Template:Flagicon Lee Yong Hee 6d
Men's Team Template:Flagicon South Korea Template:Flagicon China Template:Flagicon Japan
Women's Team Template:Flagicon China Template:Flagicon South Korea Template:Flagicon Japan
Pair Go Template:Flagicon Huang Yizhong 7p ／ Fan Weijing 2p Template:Flagicon Chou Chun-Hsun 9p ／ Hsieh Yi-Min 4p Template:Flagicon On So Jin 4p ／ Lee Ha Jin 3p

Events

Note that the sections below show only the latter stages of the competition, after the qualifying rounds.

Men's Individual

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up to 5 players per team.

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Women's Individual

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up to 3 players per team. Script error: No such module "RoundN".

Open

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2 amateur players per team.

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Men's team

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5 players with 1 substitute per team. (5 separate games per round, team with 3+ game wins wins).

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Women's team

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3 players with 1 substitute per team. (3 separate games per round, team with 2+ game wins wins the round).

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Pair Go

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1 male-female pair playing alternate moves without consultation

    • Moves sequenced: black female, white female, black male, white male.

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See also

Notes

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