World Amateur Championship

Each year the BGA gets to nominate one player to represent us in the World Amateur Go Championship. For the representative this entails an all-expenses-paid trip, usually to Japan, courtesy of the event’s sponsors. The representative needs to abide by the IGF Code of Conduct, which can be seen on the IGF Members Documents page [1].

The process is defined by Section 6.10 of our Policies [2], but a guide is:
The eight highest-placed players in the British Go Championship [3] receive points. Normally the person with the highest accumulated total, who has earned points in the last 5 years (amendment by Council 21st February 2010), is nominated as our representative. That player’s accumulated points are then reset to zero. We say normally because the final decision of who to send lies with the BGA Council. For example someone becoming British Go Champion for the first time might receive a priority invitation the next year.

Current points

This table gives the points earned each year, and the current accumulated points for those who have earned points since 2000. A list of past representatives and people who earned points before 2000 are below.

Player	Total	12 [4]	11 [5]	10 [6]	09 [7]	08 [8]	07 [9]	06 [10]	05 [11]	04 [12]	03 [13]	02 [14]	01 [15]	00 [16]	99 [17]	98 [18]	97	96	95	94	93	92	91	90	89	88	87	86	85	84	83
Matthew Macfadyen	36		9	9	9	9	5½	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	4	9	9	9	9	9	0	8	4	9	9
Francis Roads	27	2						3								2	2	3					1½	1	5	3		2		2½
Nick Krempel	22½	7	7	4	1½	3
Hui Wang	21		5½		8	7½
Young Kim	19											5	8	6
Piers Shepperson	17½									4					3	4		2	4½		0	5	6	7	6½	4	9	7
Alex Rix	17							5	5	7	3	3							3	2½	6	6½				4
Alistair Wall	16		5½					2	2½		2	1		1								2
Des Cann	15½	1	3½			3	4	4	8	3½	7	5	7	8	6	3	6	4	6	0	5	6½	7	5½							1
David Ward	13	3½				1½	5½		2½	7	6	5	5	3	2
Quentin Mills	11										5		3								3
Andrew Kay	10	8	2
Jon Diamond	10								4																				6
Bei Ge	9						9	9
Andrew Simons	7½	3½		4
Tim Hunt	7			4						2			1
Richard Hunter	6½			6½
Vanessa Wong	6½			6½
William Brooks	6		3½				2½
Matthew Cocke	6				6	5		6	6½	7	8	8	6	7	8	7	0	7	7	7
Andrew Jones	6									1	4									1
Alex Selby	5½	5½				1½	7			3½				5
Felix Wang	5½	5½
Alan Thornton	5		1														4
Matthew Crosby	4				4
Charles Matthews	4												4	0	5	5	7	5		4½
Stuart Barthropp	3				3
Matthew Scott	2			2
Kiyohiko Tanaka	2			1					1
Mike Charles	2											2
Harry Fearnley	1½				1½
Paul Christie	1							1
John Hobson	1										1
T Mark Hall	0				6	6	2½		6½				2	4	4	0		1	4½	2½	3			3			4	4
Sam Aitken	0						1

Some players are known to be ineligible to represent the UK in the World Amateur (under the current rules). Their names are shown like this. (They still accumulate points in case the rules (or their status) ever change).

The points awarded to the player who went to the World Amateur in a given year are displayed like this. Often in the past the Challenger’s Tournament took place at the same time as the World Amateur Tournament so the representative could not take part in that year’s British Championship unless they were defending champion.

For some years until 2005, a defending champion who lost the title match got 5 points. It used to be 4 points. From 2006 the defending champion takes part in the League, scoring points according to placing.

Past Representatives

Note: The WAQ points system did not exist when the first four representatives were selected.

Year	Representative	Result
2012 [19]	Sam Aitken	30th/56 [20]
2011 [21]	Alex Selby	43rd/57 [22]
2010 [23]	T Mark Hall	41st/60 [24]
2009 [25]	Matthew Cocke	33rd/66
2008 [26]	Matthew Macfadyen	20th/68
2007 [27]	Bei Ge	16th/68
2006 [28]	Des Cann	30th/68
2005 [29]	David Ward	44th/65
2004 [30]	Alex Rix	20th/64
2003 [31]	Matthew Macfadyen—World Amateur Baduk Championship, in Korea	19th/58
2002 [32]	Matthew Cocke	22nd/61
2001 [33]	Des Cann	39th/56
2000 [34]	Charles Matthews	32nd/55
1999 [35]	Matthew Macfadyen	16th/55
1998 [36]	T Mark Hall	24th/50
1997 [37]	Matthew Cocke	26th/46
1996 [38]	Matthew Macfadyen	19th/46
1995 [39]	Edmund Shaw	23rd/44
1994	Des Cann	21st
1993	Piers Shepperson	21st
1992	Matthew Macfadyen	5th
1991	John Rickard	27th
1990	Edmund Shaw	21st
1989	Jim Barty	22nd
1988	Piers Shepperson	13th
1987	Matthew Macfadyen	6th
1986	Terry Stacey	13th
1985	Jim Bates	12th
1984	Matthew Macfadyen	5th/30
1983	Jim Barty	8th
1982	Matthew Macfadyen	14th
1981	Terry Stacey and Matthew Macfadyen	8th / Round 1
1980	Matthew Macfadyen	Knocked out in Round 2
1979	Jon Diamond	Knocked out in Round 1

Players without points since 2000

Player	Total	99	98	97	96	95	94	93	92	91	90	89	88	87	86	85	84	83
Shutai Zhang (overseas)	36				9	9	9	9
Harold Lee	21								3½	5	5½			2	5
John Smith	14½										3	2½			1	7	1
Jim Barty	10½								3½	4	3	0	7	7	6	5	7	7
Edmund Shaw	8		8			0	6	7	8	8	0	8	5	5
Sam Perlo-Freeman	7½												1½	6
Alistair Thompson	7													2	3	2
Andrew Daly (overseas)	6½																4	2½
Adam Pirani	6½											6½
Nick Webber	6½					2	4½
Tony Goddard	6		6
Richard Granville	5																2½	2½
Simon Shiu	5			5
Jim Clare	4	1	1											2
Garry Roberts	4																	4
Neil Symes	4											1				3
Klaus Pulverer	3									3
Brian Chandler	2½											2½
Bill Brakes	1½									1½
Steve Draper	1½												1½
Bob Bagot	1							1
Jonathan Chetwynd	1					1
Matthew Holton	1			1
Jim Bates (overseas)	0															0	6	6