The following pcitures by Pieter Mioch are from the opening ceremony and goodwill games (pair go with local ladies) on Day 1, 27 May 2006, of the World Amateur Go Championship in Sasebo.
| Belgian representative Jan Ramon engrossed in pair go | Bosnia-Herzegovina representative, Zoran Simeunovic, playing pair go | |
| Friendship match - UK representative Des Cann is in the lower right | Cho Tae-weon, North Korea's representative, enjoys the friendship games | |
| Spain's representative Ignacio Manuel Cernuda Cangas playing pair go | Erik Puyt reporting the International Go Federation's happiness at progress being made | |
| Is that a camera? Or is Umezawa Yukari on the lookout for a western Hikaru no Go? | South Africa's representative Julius Paulu in the pair go | |