TransAtlantic Youth Go match

This is the first of hopefully many friendship tournaments between North American and Europe youth players. This event provides the opportunity for youth players on both sides to get top-level playing experience and make new go friends. The tournament is organized as a team match with ten players per side, with players being invited to by their national or continental go associations.

Games were be played in the Transatlantic Youth Go Tournament room on the KGS go server on April 19, 2009. Game were be played with Japanese rules, with time controls of 30 minutes main time + 10 moves/5 minutes Canadian-style overtime.

Teams


First Series 2009-04-19 15:00 GMT, 11 AM Eastern, 8 AM Pacific
Andy Liu (17) 1st place, 2006 US National Championship 1st place, 2002 Redmond Cup Championship 8th place, 2007 WAGC	1-0 B+R	Artem Kachanovskyj (16) 2nd place, 2009 European Youth Goe Championship 1st place, 2008 European Youth Goe Championship 5th place, 2008 World Youth Goe Championship
Calvin Sun (12) 3-time Redmond Cup champion 4th place, 2008 World Youth Goe Championship, Jr. Division National team member, 2008 WMSG	1-0 W+2.5	Ali Jabarin (15) 1st place, 2009 European Youth Championship 1st place, 2008 Israeli Championship 1st place, 2007 Israeli Championship
Jack Yang (18) 1st place, 2006 US Go Congress 5-dan division	0-1 W+T	Alexandr Vashurov (13) 1st place, 2008 Russian Under-12 Championship 4th place, 2008 Russian Youth Championship 3rd place, 2007 European Children Championship
Jimmy Guo (16) 3rd place, 2008 US Youth Goe Championship 2nd place, 2007 US Youth Goe Championship	0-1 B+13.5	Aleksandr Matushkin (14) 1st place, 2007 Russian Under-16 Championship 3rd place, 2006 European Youth Goe Championship, Under-12 7th place, 2006 World Youth Goe Championship, Jr. division
Cherry Shen (16) 2nd place, 2007 Redmond Cup 2005 & 2007 US Pair Go representative National team member, 2008 WMSG	1-0 B+R	Eran Ben Artzi (16) 9th place, 2008 Israeli Championship
Second Series 2009-04-19 18:00 GMT, 2 PM Eastern, 11 AM Pacific
Gansheng Shi (14) 2008 Redmond Cup champion 2008 North American Fujitsu finalist 2008 Canadian representative, World Youth Goe Championship	0-1 B+R	Thomas Debarre (16) 2nd place, 2008 European Youth Goe Championship 3rd place, 2008 Korean Ambassador's Cup 6th place, 2008 World Youth Goe Championship
Jianing Gan (12) 2nd place (tied), 2009 CGA Winter Cup, Open Division	1-0 B+R	Mateusz Surma (13) 7-time Polish Youth Champion 2nd place, 2008 Polish Championship 6th place, 2006 Austrian Open
Matthew Burrall (17) 1st place, 2009 Jujo Jiang Youth Goe Championship National team member, 2008 WMSG	0-1 B+R	Nikola Mitic (17) 3rd place, 2008 Serbian Championship 2nd place, 2008 Serbian Youth Championship National team member, 2008 WMSG
Hugh Zhang (12) 1st place, 2008 Redmond Cup, Jr. division 2nd place, 2008 US Youth Goe Championship National team member, 2008 WMSG	1-0 B+R	Lazar Manojlovic (17) 2nd place, 2008 Serbian Championship 6th place, 2007 European Youth Goe Championship 1st place, 2007 Balkan Go Congress
Daniel Gourdeau (15) National team member, 2008 WMSG	1-0 W+25.5	Johannes Obenaus (17) 1st place, 2006 German Youth Championship 1st place, 2008 Rostock Championship 5-time Berlin Youth Champion
Final Result 6-4 Congratulations to Team North America

The organizers would like to thank the European Go Federation, the American Go Association and the Canadian Go Association for their support in making this event possible.