1st World Mind Sports Games - British Team Biogs |... -
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Published on: 9/6/2009
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Vanessa Wong, Women's Team
Vanessa, 14, is the youngest member of the team and the strongest woman player.
She started to learn Go at the age of six.
She is a student at Shatin College, Hong Kong.
She has taken lessons from various Go academies in Hong Kong and also from a professional from Shanghai at the age of nine.
She became 1 dan at the age of ten and 3 dan at twelve.
She recently took part in the Amateur Go Championship in Hangzhou, China and she obtained a national 4 dan certificate.
She won the Hong Kong Pair Go Championship in 2005, the British Youth Go Championship in 2006, came 2nd in the Hong Kong Primary and Secondary School Go Championship in 2008 and 13th in the European Youth Goe Championship also in 2008.