Pandanet Open Professional and Amateur
Internet World Go Championship
Naoki Hane won the Final!
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Special IGS-PandaNet event
Live commentary by Ms. Feng Yun, 9p |
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| IGS-PandaNet will broadcast the quarter-final,
semi-final and final featuring live commentary
in English by Ms. Feng Yun, 9p
(more about Ms. Feng Yun...) |
| The schedule |
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| 17th of April 10:00 | final |
Starting Saturday the 29th of January 2005 IGS-PandaNet is happy to
organize the 1st World Go Championship by Internet. You strength
does not matter, so everybody can join.
However, you can only enter the tournament after
registration. Registration will start the 11th of
January and closes the 24th of January.
The tournament will be played from the 29th of January 2005
through the 17th of April 2005.
The winner will be the 1st Internet World Go Champion.
- Pre-registration is required. No entry fee.
- The 3rd round of the preliminary tournament features both the qualified
amateurs from the 1st round and the professional participants.
- These first 6 rounds will be played on IGS through the internet.
- The top 8 players who come through the qualification tournament
will be invited to Tokyo to participate in the main tournament to
decide the winner of the 1st Open Internet World Go Champion.
These games will be covered live on IGS and commentated by a professional.
- The tournament structure basically is a knockout system with the exception
of the 1st round where the number of games will depend on the number of
participants.
- The thinking time is 1 minute main time + 25 moves in 10 minutes extra time.
- Face to Face games (semi-final --- final), 30 seconds every moves and 10 times of 1 minutes extra time.
- All games are even with 6.5 komi.
- The color (white or black) will be decided by the organizers.
(more details...)
All time and dates below are in Japanese local time. To see the corresponding
time in your region please check the
IGS-PandaNet World Time Zones or if you prefer the
Fixed Time World Clock.
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| 29th of January | 10:00 1st round |
| 19th of February | 10:00 2nd round (1st game)
14:00 2nd round (2nd game) |
| 26th of February | 10:00 3rd round |
| 12th of March | 10:00 4th round |
| 19th of March | 10:00 5th round |
| 2nd of April | 10:00 6th round |
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| 16th of April | 10:00 quarter-finals, semi-finals |
| 17th of April | 10:00 final |
(professionals participated from the 3rd round onward)
| Winner |
¥ 3.000.000,- |
about $ 25.000,- |
| Runner-up |
¥ 1.000.000,- |
about $ 8.000,- |
| 3rd-4th |
¥ 500.000,- |
about $ 4.000,- |
| 5th-8th |
¥ 200.000,- |
about $ 1.600,- |
From the IGS-PandaNet homepage please follow the link
Subscribe to the Pandanet Open Professional and Amateur
Internet World Go Championship
and fill out the form. You will receive a confirmation of your
subscription by E-mail. Also your schedule and opponents will
be communicated to you through E-mail.
(application is closed)
Organization: Committee of Internet World Go Championship
Sponsor: Nihon Ki-in, Kansai Ki-in, China Qi-Yuan, Japan Pair-Go Association
Co-sponsor: IGS-PandaNet
With support of: The Mainichi Newspapers, The Sankei Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun
Naoki Hane won the Final!