WAGC 2004
25th World Amateur Go Championship
Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, 6th - 10th June 2004
64 countries attended this event, originally planned for 2003, at Kurashiki in Japan.
Kurashiki in Okayama Prefecture is famous for old buildings containing museums on a willow-lined canal.
The congress hotel was a converted ivy-covered cotton mill.
The final placings were:
1. Korea 8/8, 2. Taiwan 7/8, 3. China 6/8, 4. France (on SOSOS), 5. Japan, 6. Canada, 7. Hong Kong, 8. USA,
9. Luxembourg, 10. Czechia 5/8.
Bernard Helmstetter of France's result is particularly noteworthy; if the last game to finish had been lost by Sweden then France would have been third.
The Asada Fighting Spirit Prize went to the star of the show 9-year old Shiba Shaw from India, who is a former street urchin taken in by a Japanese orphanage.
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