Again 68 countries took part. It was held at Nihon Kiin Headquarters in the Ichigaya district of Tokyo.
After 4 rounds China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan were unbeaten, and these went on to take four of the top five places.
Unbeaten champion was 1. Shan Ziteng, the 13-year old from China.
Winning seven games were 2. Woo Dong-Ha of Korea and 3. Mori Hironobu of Japan.
Topping the group on 6 wins was 4. Cristian Pop from Romania.
Next were 5. Lai of Taiwan, 6. Yang of Canada, 7. Merlijn Kuin of Netherlands, 8. Andy Liu from USA and 9. Ondrej Silt from Czechia.
10. Andrey Kulkov of Russia topped the group on five wins.