The International Amateur Pair Go Championship (IAPGC as known as IAPG CUP) is an international tournament for amateur Go players under the Pair Go rule, held once a year since 1990. This competition is partly on the international championship and partly on the Japanese national championship. The organising body is the Japan Pair Go Association (JPGA) and the International Amateur Pair Go Championship Executive Committee.Tournament Outline
History Hisao Taki, the president of NKB inc. in traffic advertisement Industry, originated Pair Go and promoted first pair go championship named International Go Amateur Pair Tournament as known as the NKB Cup on December 23, 1990. However, this event is officially translated as 1st International Amateur Pair Go Championship in English. 64 players from 4 countries were invited in this event.
On November 24, 1991, 2nd International Amateur Pair Go Championship was held at Hotel Edmont in Tokyo. Since this event, the neme of event was fixed.
In 2008, Pair Go was one of the official sports in World Mind Sports Games. For this reason, 19th event was promoted in 2008 World Mind Sports Games.WMSG Pair Go report
In March 2010, "Pair Go 20th Anniversary WPGA Pair Go World Cup 2010 Hangzhou" was held in Hangzhou, China.
Past champions YearWinner2nd3rd1990 Shoji Komori () Toshiyuki Sogabe () Tomoyasu Fueno () Sachiko Minatogawa () Chikako Nakamura () Taiko Nakamura ()1991 Yu-Guo Xie () Shoji Komori () Toei Kanazawa () Cheng-Hua Zhang () Sachiko Minatogawa () Tomoko Kanai ()1992 Shoji Komori () Yoichiro Matsuta () Toshihiko Muraoka () Sachiko Minatogawa () Tomoko Kanai () Hisako Koike ()1993 Akira Yoshida () Toshihiko Muraoka () Shun Nagano () Tomoyumi Baba () Kana Makiguchi () Mutsumi Hayashi ()1994 Yukihide Sakai () Sung-Soo Park () Masaaki Kanno () Yukari Umezawa () Jung-Won Lee () Yuko Tsukuda ()1995 Hyo-Jin Kwun () Kai-Hin Chang () Takashi Kuboniwa () Kyong-Bo Lee () Chih-Han Lin () Yuki Imamura ()1996 Toshiyuki Sogabe () Satoshi Koitabashi () Shigeaki Ishihara () Chikako Nakamura () Yasuko Imamura () Sachiko Yoshioka ()1997 Hsiang-Jen Huang () Kuniki Sato () Hak-Yong Lee () Shu-Chin Cheng () Hong-Mei Fu () Min-Jin Lee ()1998 Sung-Kyun Park () Masayoshi Nagai () Bungo Taga () Se-Sil Kim () Shoko Takanashi () Naoko Goto ()1999 Bungo Taga () Shoji Komori () Shin-Young Kang () Naoko Goto () Yumiko Tanaka () Se-Yong Kim ()2000 Hyon-Chol Kim () Satoshi Hiraoka () Koichi Shimohashi () Mi-Hyon Kwon () Yuriko Hiraoka () Momoyo Sato ()2001 Chen Huang () Dong-Seob Kim () Yoshiyuki Imabun () Wei-Jing Fan () Ha-Jin Lee () Yasuko Imamura ()2002 Le-Ping Qian () Minoru Harada () Yong-Sam Mun () Ni-Qiao Wang () Kazuko Kanai () Un-A Choe ()2003 Nam-Hoon Kim () Bungo Taga () Akio Ito () Se-Young Kim () Naoko Arai () Miori Shimosaka ()2004 Pon-Gil Ri () Sung-Bong Ha () Satoshi Hiraoka () Sae-Byol Jo () Ji-Eun Kim () Yuriko Hiraoka ()2005 Fan Liu () Seong-Hoon Kim () Kikou Emura () Nian-Nian Li () Tae-Hyun Kim () Risa Sasako ()2006 Yu-Tae Seo () Lin Long () Masaki Date () Ye-Seul Song () Ling Yan () Fuko Fukasaka ()2007 Chang-Bae Kang () Kazumori Nagaya () Sugitaro Saito () Hye-Lim Kim () Ayako Oda () Tomoyumi Baba ()2008 Seok-Ui Hong () Tae-Won Jo () Tibor Pocsai () Shin-Young Kim () Sae-Byol Jo () Rita Pocsai ()2009 Sang-Heun Lee () Kazumori Nagoya () Toshiaki Kushiro () Ye-Seul Song () Ayako Oda () Kushiro Geishun ()2010 Song-Hong Suk () Satoshi Hiraoka () Tsubasa Miyamoto () Yeon-Gju Lee () Yuriko Hiraoka () Sayuri Hoshi ()2010 WC He Xie () Jin-Seuk Mok () Xing Liu () Rong-Hui Song () Min-Jin Lee () Yi Tang ()2011 Ho-Seung Lee () Ping-Sin Tseng () Nobuyuki Tanaka () Hee-Sue Kim () Hsiao-Tung Lin () Noriko Horimoto ()2012 Ho-Seung Lee () Satoshi Hiraoka () Minoru Kuramoto () Yun-Jeong Jang () Yuriko Hiraoka () Naoko Arai ()2013 Jun-Hak Jeon () Sheng-Cheih Lo () Kazumori Nagaya () Soo-Young Kim () Hung-Ping Lin () Ayako Oda ()
See also Go competitions Go players Rengo
References
External links World Pair Go Association 23rd International Amateur Pair Go Championship