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WAGC Update: Undefeated Taipei leads

Taipei's Yi-Tien Chan leads the 2018 World Amateur Go Championships, with a 6-0 record and just two rounds to go. China's Chen Wang, Korea's Sangcheon Kim, Singapore's Jie Hui Kwa, Hungary's Csaba Mero and Poland's Stanislaw Frejlak all have five wins each. Aaron Ye (right) of the U.S. is now ranked 23rd at 3-3, while Mexico's Jose Abraham Florencia Islas is 4-2 and Canada's Yongfei Ge is also 4-2. Latest reports and scores are on Ranka Online, including interviews with Thiago Shinji Shimada Ramos of Brazil, Torben Pedersen of Denmark and Ólafur Sigurðarson of Iceland.