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Dusаn Mitic fifth at the World Youth Go Championship
Only a few could expect that Dusan can be ranked so high among the world best 12 youth players.
The most optimistic expectation was that he could be placed somewhere around 8th place. But he needed just a little more luck in order to reach among the first four players and thus get a chance to win a medal. This result is also the best one in the 40 years history of Go in Serbia, in the individual championships.
Before the championship Dusan has had a few months of preparation with his coach Stаnkоvić Miјоdrаg, as well as final preparation in Toronto.
After Boston, Dusan and his coach are heading San Diego, California, where they are going to visit go clubs and play with the best local players. Finally, the North American series ends in Toronto, Canada, where they have arranged a game with a Korean professional player on August 18-20.
Young Go Champion In Consulate
During the reception organized in The Consulate on August
2nd, Dusan Mitic, European vice champion for youth in go played a goodwill game
against James Sedgwick from Toronto, one
of the strongest Canadian go players .
The
first official game between representatives of Canada
and Serbia started with a
move done by Mr.Dragan Grkovic, the Consul General of RS in Toronto
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Before attending to the 24th Ing
WYGC World Youth GO Championship, August 7
–11, 2007 Boston, USA , Dusan Mitić,Young Serbian Go Champion and
European vice champion for youth, came to Toronto, accompanied with his coach
Mijodrag Stankovic, senior Go champion of Serbia.
Mrs. Svetlana and Mr. Miljenko Zoric , who live in Toronto, hosted the guests from Serbia.
Mr. Miljenko Zoric is one of the first enthusiasts
who disseminated and actively played go in ex Yu and in Belgrade.
The goal of young Dusan's visit to Toronto
is to be well prepared for his show up on WYGC, by playng against Toronto go players, with
assistance of his coach.
During the reception organized in The Consulate on August
2nd, Dusan Mitic, European vice champion for youth in go , played his first
goodwill game against James Sedgwick,
from Toronto, 6 DAN ,one of the strongest Canadian go players .
The first official game between representatives of Canada and Serbia,
in a presence of go players and other guests, started with a move done by
Mr.Dragan Grkovic, the Consul General of RS in Toronto
Very soon, the goodwill game turned into a serious,
strong fighting, which should for sure last at list a few hours after an and of
the reception! Thanks to diplomatic efforts of Mr. Grkovic, both players
mutually accepted an even result of the game with a great pleasure! But, only one condition they had to
accept was to meet again and play a new game to see who is better ! (See Gallery )
 At the same time, Mr. Mijodrag Stankovic demonstrated
the Internet use in go playing,
Japan, Korea
and China,
being countries where go is national sport, installed a number of huge servers
into the Global Net. They help thousands
of people every day to meet and play go with an appropriate partner, beginner
or expert .
(Gо
sеrver http://www.gokgs.com/)
In Internet demo game Mr.
Stankovic's partner was
Dragan Mitic, Dusan's father in Nis,
Serbia, former
champion and one of best Serbian players. The game was watched along by a few
spectators connected to the go server from Serbia!
The common opinion of all present guests is that evening spent with guests from Serbia
and Toronto go players was a unique chance for most of them learn go, the oldest mind game in the world as well as results of
Serbian players on international go arena.
An unselfish help and
support to all those who want to learn go will be given by Mr. Miljenko Zoric,
experienced go player and teacher, (
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POST FESTUM1: As they had promised to Consul General, Dusan Mitic and James Sedgwick played a new game at family Sedgwick's home. James won
with 11 points difference!
Dusan
strongly resisted to his more experienced opponent. His coach Mijodrag Stankovic thinks
that games played against Mr. Sedgwick should greatly help Dusan to win a good
score on WYGC in Boston
POST FESTUM2: During Nyagara
Falls sighsteeng, Dusan and his host, Mr.
Zoric, played a few go moves in a memory to the greaest Serbian scientist NikolaTesla.
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