4th Women's World Amateur Go Championship
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It was a young crowd of mostly newcomers that competed for the 4th
World Women's Amateur Go Championship in Yokohama, and the finish was
just about as close as possible: Yao (China), Yoon (Korea, age 15), and
Chang (Chinese Taipei, age 12) ended in a three-way tie at 6-1, and Yao
and Yoon were also tied at 34 SOS points apiece (Chang had 30). The
title went to Yao because she had beaten Yoon, while Chang, in third
place, had the satisfaction of having won a game from the world
champion. Incidentally, Chang was not the youngest player in the
tournament: that distinction went to seven-year-old Choe Una from DPR
Korea, who finished a strong eighth.
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1 Yao Xiaomin (China) 6-1 | 14 Emilia Grudzinska (Poland) 3-4
2 Yoon Young-sun (Korea) 6-1 | 15 Lone Mortensen (Denmark) 3-4
3 Chang Kaisim (Taipei) 6-1 | 16 Anna Hamelius (Sweden) 3-4
4 Yamashita Chifumi (Japan) 5-2 | 17 Marianne Diederen (Neth.) 3-4
5 Rika Kyriakakis (Australia) 5-2 | 18 Lenka Dankova (Czech.) 3-4
6 Yong Wei Wu Peng (USA) 4-3 | 19 Adela Ibanez (Spain) 3-4
7 Veronika Varga (Hungary) 4-3 | 20 Helena Niinisalo (Finland) 3-4
8 Choe Una (DPR Korea) 4-3 | 21 Vera Rupel (Slovenia) 3-4
9 Monika Ibing (Germany) 4-3 | 22 Lim Sijing (Singapore) 2-5
10 Suzanne Malo (Canada) 4-3 | 23 Valerie Kurz (Switzerland) 2-5
11 Alison Jones (UK) 4-3 | 24 Ruxandra Georgescu (Romania) 2-5
12 Eleonore Gruber (Austria) 4-3 | 25 Maria Buaya (Philippines) 1-6
13 Helene Coulombe (France) 4-3 |
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