The South Korean team has won both groups (U-18 and U-12) at the World Youth Go Championship in Prague.
In the Senior Group Hur Young Ho 5d beat the Chinese representative Wang Lei, rated professional 1 dan, in the final. This reversed the result when these two met in the preliminary Swiss.
In the Junior group the final came down to China v South Korea also. Kang Dong Yoon 5d held the line against Huang Chen 5d, to give South Korea both titles.
Game records are on the web site of the event. Team leader Nam Chihyung, a professional player who also presents Go on the cable channel catering for South Korea's fanatical baduk (Go) followers, will return to Seoul
satisfied with this performance.
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Older News From 19 July 2000: SWISS STAGE CONCLUDES
In the World Youth Go Championship in Prague, the initial five-round Swiss
stage is complete. Tomorrow the top four in each of the two sections will play to a knock-out finish.
In the Senior (Under-18) Group of 12 nations, Wang Lei of China, 13 years old and rated professional 1 dan, won all his games to finish ahead of South Korea's Hur Young Ho, 13 years also and rated 5 dan amateur. The other semi-finalists are Lee Kuei-Han of Taiwan (5d) and Benjamin Teuber of Germany (4d).
In the Junior (Under-12) group the order at the top was reversed, with Kang Dong Yoon of South Korea, 11 years old and amateur 5 dan having beaten Huang Chen (same age and rank) of China in Round 2. There are eight countries in this group, the others being USA (Eric Lui, 11, 4d), Czechia (Jan Prokop, 9, 5k), Singapore (Alden Zhuang Cheng Yi, 9, 1d), Taiwan (Zhou Yi-Nan, 11, 3d), Russia (Ilya Shikshin, 10, 2d), and Ukraine (Mykola Glushchenko, 10, 1d, second place in this year's European Youth Championship).
Taiwan and Russia also proceed to the semi-final. The event can be followed to its conclusion on the web site, which has photographs and will post game records.
