20th Korean Prime Minister Cup: Fu Yu (CH, 8-d) world champion; Tsai Ming Ruel (TW, 7-d) world champion junior (< 15 y)

The Korean Prime Minister Cup (KPMC) is the Korean version of the WAGC (World Amateur Go Championship) organised by the Nihon Ki-In.

2026 world amateur champion is Chinese Fu Yu (8-d), who won all his games.
Best European is Jan Prokop (CZ, 6-d) who ended 5th.
Our Belgian representant, François Gonze (4-d), ended 39th (out of a field of 52 competitors) with a 2/7 score.

Complete results of the main Tournament: https://eurogofed.org/newsp/2020/2025%20KPMC/KPMC_2025_National_Standing...

This year, a parallel tournament for the young players (under 15 years old) was organised.
Winner is the Taïwanese Tsang Minf Ruel (7-d).
Our "guy" was our rising star Joachim Laloux (3-k), who ended 15th (out of 28 players) with a 3/6 score (...and a win against a 1-k)

Complete results of the Youth Division (< 15 years old): https://eurogofed.org/newsp/2020/2025%20KPMC//KPMC_2025_Youth_Standings....

And here is a report by Damir Medak (in which you see a nice picture of François and Joachim playing a game in the pair tournament :-)
https://eurogofed.org/index.html?id=518