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About
Links1st TransAtlantic Youth Go Match
2009-04-19
This was the first of hopefully many friendship tournaments between North American and Europe youth players.
The event provides the opportunity for youth players on both sides to get top-level playing experience
and make new go friends.
The tournament is organized as a team match with ten players per side, with players being invited
to by their national or continental Go organisations.
Games were played in the Transatlantic Youth Go Tournament room on the KGS Go Server on 19th April 2009.
Games were be played with Japanese rules, with time controls of 30 minutes main time + 10 moves in 5 minutes
Canadian-style overtime.
First Series - 15:00 GMT
- 1 Andy Liu (17, America) - Artem Kachanovskyj (16, Ukraine) 0
- 1 Calvin Sun (12, America) - Ali Jabarin (15, Israel) 0
- 0 Jack Yang (18, America) - Alexandr Vashurov (13, Russia) 1
- 0 Jimmy Guo (16, America) - Alexandr Mutushkin (14, Russia) 1
- 1 Cherry Shen (16, America) - Eran Ben Artzi (16, Israel) 0
Second Series - 18:00 GMT
- 0 Gansheng Shi (14, Canada) - Thomas Debarre (16, France) 1
- 1 Jianing Gan (12, Canada) - Mateusz Surma (13, Poland) 0
- 0 Matthew Burrall (17, America) - Nikola Mitic (17, Serbia) 1
- 1 Hugh Zhang (12, America) - Lazar Manojlovic (17, Serbia) 0
- 1 Daniel Gourdeau (15, Canada) - Johannes Obenaus (17, Germany) 0
Final Score
- 6 USA & Canada - Europe 4