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The 39th International Prague Go Tournament was held in the historical Congress Hall of the Masaryk college in Prague 6 - Dejvice. This event was again a qualification for the World Baduk Championship, Prime Minister Cup in Korea, and for the third time it was held under the auspices of the Korean Ambassador in Czechia. The number of 109 participants comming from 4 countries, Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Czechia, confirmed the position of Korean Ambassador Cup among the top three go events organized in the Czech Republic.

On the 2nd -6th July 2009 the Championship in a board game go took place in Libčice nad Vltavou. Ondřej Šilt won the champion title for the fourth time, playing for TJ Slovan Carlsbad. He followed the last year's victory. The second was Ondřej Kruml from Brno, who like the winner won 8 out of 9 games and the order between the two players decided the outcome of the game.

The youngest participant, 12 years old Li Chen Chien from Taiwan, won in the third year of the tournament Prime Minister Cup, which finished on 12th November in Goyang in the South Corea. The tournament is considered to be the unofficial amateur world championship in go. Chiel managed to defeat all of his adult competitors and although he lost with a Corean representative, he still won the whole tournament.