The 2016 North American Pair Go Championship attracted 120 players, including seven professionals, on Thursday 
night. The overall champions this year are Gabriella Su 6d and Jeremy Chiu 7d (right), who will represent North America in the International Amateur Pair Go Championship in Tokyo in December. Always one of the most popular events of the week, Pair Go provides everyone an opportunity to play in a fun unrated tournament. Pair Go promotes the formation of partnerships which combine the diverse skills and personalities of each player. Since everyone can play, Pair Go is especially attractive for those who don’t play in the rest of the competitive tournaments during the Go Congress. The North American Pair Go Championship is supported by World Pair Go Association and the Japan Pair Go Association.
The top table of the tournament determined the overall champions. As with many of the tournaments at this year’s congress, the matches played on the top board of the tournament were recorded onto the Pandanet Go Server along with a live stream on the AGA’s Official YouTube page. Click here to see an album of photos of all of the pairs in the tournament.
Top table results: 1st Place – Gabriella Su 6d and Jeremy Chiu 7d; 2nd Place – Yin Li Wang 6d and Daniel Liu 6d; 3rd Place – Melissa Cao 4d and Justin Ching 7d; 4th Place – Wan Chen 4d and Ricky Zhao 7d
Table Winners: Table 2: Tongyu Wang 7d and Xiangnan Zheng 7d; Table 3: Irene Sha 6d and James Sedgwick 6d; Table 4: Lee Dahye 4p and Cam Wagner 1d; Table 5: Nqua Xiong 2d and Michael Chen 7d; Table 6: Yasuko Imamura 6d and Nick Blake 3d; Table 7: Marina Watabe 3d and David Glekel 3d; Table 8: Seowoo Wang 1d and Andrew Jackson 4d; Table 9: Ai-Lin Hsiao 2p and Yihsiu Chen 10k; Table 10: Lee Anne Bowie 3k and Dave Hampton 3k; Table 11: Jesy Feliccia 4k and Kilin Tang 7k; Table 12: Alexandra Patz 13k and Marc Palmer 1d; Table 13: Wanda Metcalf 5k and Mark Nahabedian 13k; Table 14: Emily Briley 19k and Jonathon Green 2k; Table 15: Antonina Perez-Lopez 20k and Chris Lahey 11k
– Todd Heidenreich, Tournament Director; photos by Chris Garlock; photo at left: Tselmuun Ganbaatar (r) and her partner Eric Hookway.
