| Alexandre Amaro de Souza can count on full support from Latin America | Joey Hung of USA shows his delight at overcoming Sweden | |
| Tang Weixin, 13, from China needs a little help to tell opponent Leszek Soldan of Poland that youth had triumphed by 10 points. But as a recent participant in the Tianyuan, Tang needs no help with his go. | Yuki Shigeno 2-dan, now back in Japan working for the IGF, and her Italian husband, and Vesa Laatihainen at the back, obviously found something strange | |
| Farid Ben Malek of France, left. put in an ironman performance (see report) but had to succumb against Yen Tingyu of Singapore | ||
| Mykhailo Hakchenko of Bulgaria reviews a game with interpreter James "Tesuji" Davies | Kivanc Doganay of Turkey and Pal Balogh of Hungary find plenty to review in their game in the pair go | |
| Fujiwara Katsuya 6-dan of the Kansai Ki-in decides to take our too enterprising reporter outside... | ...while Gregor Butala of Slovenia takes himself outside as one of the smoking minority | |