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Pair Go at the London Open
At the New Year London Open tournament there is a Pair Go tournament during one of the evenings.
2012
16 pairs took part. Winners were Guo Juan & Claude Brisson. They beat Andrew Kay and Klaudia Kleczkowska in the final.
2011
16 pairs took part, including a player from Iceland for the first time. Winners were Ko Juyeong 8p & Chong Han 5d.
2010
8 pairs took part. Winners were Guo Juan 5p and Ian Davis 1d
Results
Gallery
2009
16 pairs took part. Nobody managed to beat the two Chinese 6d, Yanqi Zhang and Wei Wang.
Results
Gallery
2008
10 pairs took part. Nobody managed to beat Guo Juan, 5p, playing with Ireland's Ian Davis. Results
The Players
2007
8 pairs from many different countries took part. Winners were Dominique Cornuejols and Toru Imamura.
The Players
2006
One evening 16 couples took part in a Pair Go competition. It was won by Natasha Regan and Matthew Cocke. Second were Suvi Leppanen and Teemu Rovio, and third were Jenny Radcliffe and Matt Reid.
2005
Winners were a pair from Grenoble, France, Dominique Cornuejols (1 dan) and Jean-Loop Naddef (5 kyu). Three pairs were second: Ines and Jose Teles de Menezes (Portugal), Suvi Leppanen and Teemu Rovio (Finland), Antti Tarvainen (Finland) and Drago Pergar (Slovenia).
2004
An 8-player Pair Go event was won by Finland's Suvi Leppanen (3 kyu) and Teemu Rovio (1 dan) with 4/4. On 3/4 were Germany's Pei Zhao (6 dan) and Olivier Marteaux (1 kyu), London's Nuo Jia (2 dan) and Hao Wang (1 dan), and Edwina Lee (4 kyu) and "Erik".
2003
There were 5 winners of the 24 player Pair Go (doubles) played on 29/12/03: Michael Marz / Manuela Lindemeyer, Jasmin Grossmann / Tobias Klaus, Madeleine Roth / Benjamin Teuber, William Brooks / Hichem Aktouche, Thomas Pototschnig / Dominic Schumacher.
2002
Winners of the 16 player Pair Go were Mihoko Isoda and Masashi Sugiyama (Oxford) and the runners up were Sue Paterson (Brighton) and Piers Shepperson (Slough).