IGF Membership Growth
Affiliation Record of IGF members (Number of General Members 71).
Europe 35, Asia 16, the Americas 15, Africa 3 and Oceania 2.
| 1982 (29)
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Brazil
Canada
China
Czech Rep (orig. Czechoslovakia)
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Hong Kong
Hungary
Italy
Japan
Korea
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Philippines
Poland
Romania
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
U.K.
U.S.A.
Yugoslavia (later
Serbia-Montenegro) | 1983 (31)
Mexico
Thailand | 1992 (42)
Portugal
Slovenia
Venezuela | 2000 (59)
Armenia
Lithuania | 2006 (69)
Costa Rica |
| 1985 (35)
Belgium
Luxembourg
Chinese Taipei
Russian Fed
(orig. USSR) | 1993 (45)
South Africa
Turkey
Ukraine | 2001 (63)
Belarus
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Ecuador
Uruguay | 2007 (70)
Philippines |
| 1987 (36)
Malaysia | 1994 (48)
Cuba
Indonesia
Slovakia | 2002 (64)
Nepal | 2008 (71) Macau |
| 1989 (37)
Chile
(East Germany for
1 year only) | 1997 (51)
Croatia
India
Israel
(Yugoslavia/
Serbia
re-formed) | 2003 (66)
Mongolia
Panama |
|
| 1990 (38)
Ireland | 1999 (57)
Colombia
Guatemala
Madagascar
Morocco
Peru
Vietnam | 2005 (68)
Azerbaijan
Bulgaria
Cyprus
(the Go Club of
the Philippines
deemed to have
resigned in 2005) |
|
| 1991 (39)
D.P.R. Korea |
CHU WA is the transliteration in Japanese of this calligraphy kindly donated by Go Seigen to the IGF during the 28th WAGC. It can be translated as "Centre Harmony". As he explained, Go is not a fight but harmony between White and Black. In being neither right nor left, neither top nor bottom, harmony is maintained and is peace and the essence of Go.
Go Seigen wants to give it to everyone in the world.
