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Amateur go chess event entering final phase
The 2007 China-South Korea amateur go chess contest is reaching its final stages after the top two players from each side emerged from intense early rounds at Yueyang Tower in Hunan Province.
Kang Chang-bae and Song Hong-suk from Korea and Hu Yiqing and Dang Yifei from China advanced to the finals.
Kang will play Song and Hu takes on Dang this Saturday to decide the final two for the grand final between the two countries' amateur representatives at Phoenix City on Sunday.
Organized by the China Chess Academy and the Beijing Unitenix Culture Communications Co, the event is part of the third world-go-chess summit meeting involving amateurs and professionals from the two leading chess-playing nations.
WO-Game makes its way to China
Corporate America's Wild Onion Urban Adventure Race will debut in China next year.
Aimed at testing corporate team's teamwork and athleticism, "Wo-Game", as it is known, will be staged in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, next April under the slogan "From zero to hero".
WO-Game was founded in Chicago seven years ago by veteran adventure racers Will Burkhart, John O'Connor and John Hamill.
This unisex event usually runs for 24 hours and focuses on a range of athletic disciplines such as canoeing, kayaking, in-line skating, cycling, running, scootering, stair climbing, rappelling and city navigation.
"In the US, we will get 75 international professional teams and about 150 amateur teams each race," said Hamill while introducing the race in Beijing along with his Chinese business partners.
(China Daily 09/04/2007 page22)
