Gomoku World Championship 2023

Tournament system: 12 players Round Robin (11 rounds)

Time control: 120 minutes per player + 30 seconds added for each move

Opening rule: Swap-2

The winner of the tournament will win World Champion title.

Before the beginning of the tournament the 12 players have to be decided first. Below is the table that illustrates how the 12 seats are taken.

Seat Description:

1 - The Winner of last World Championship – Martin Muzika, Czech Republic
2 - National Place for last WC 2nd place – Ukraine
3 - National Place for last WC 3rd place – Poland
4 - National Place for last WC 4th place – Hungary
5 - National Place for last WC 5th place – Hungary
6 - The 1st place of Qualification Tournament
7 - The 2nd place of Qualification Tournament
8 - The 3rd place of Qualification Tournament
9 - The 4th place of Qualification Tournament
10 - The 5th place of Qualification Tournament
11 - National Place for winner of BT 2019 – Poland
12 - Organizing Country or the 6th place of Qualification Tournament

Comments:

• The Winner of last World Championship – the current World Champion – can go directly to the A-final without having to join the National or International Qualification tournaments.

• National Places for last WC means that the Seats belong to the nations whose players got those places in last WC.

• Organizing Country Seat – it is given to Organizing Country if that country has failed to get any National or Personal Places from previous WC, nor any place from QT.

• Cancellations – if Winner of last WC, cancel his/her participation – the personal place is changed to a national place. However if any country owning National Places, cancel their participation – the seat(s) is added to the QT seats group.

• The organizing country already has players in AT and the Ukrainian national place has been moved to the next GWC, hence 7 players will join the AT from QT.