Chinese Chen Wang is 2019 world amateur champion; François Gonze ends 26th out of 59 with 4/8
Door Jean-Denis Hennebert · 6 juni 2019results
Chinese Chen Wang triumphed in the 2019 World Amateur Championship.
He remained unbeaten (8/8).
Second is Korean Jaesung Lee with 7/8, who lost by a half point to Chen Wang.
Further, five competitors got 6 victories, in order of the tie-breaker:
- the player from Hong-Kong
- Albert Yen from USA (best Westerner)
- Pal Balogh from Hungary (best European)
- the player from Canada
- and Dmitro Bogatski from Ukraine.
Our delegate was François Gonze.
He ended 26th out of a field of 59 competitors, with 4 victories (against South Africa, Turkey, Lituania and Czechia - this last one is a real feat: Jan Simara was European champion in 2012 !) and 4 losses, to Albert Yen (US), Pal Balogh (HU), Vietnam and Geert Groenen (NL). Congratulations to him !