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Let's get right to the point. With a huge digital smile you should perceive on your computer screen, we can announce that Rita Pocsai 5d from Hungary won the SENKO CUP World Go Women’s Championship 2025!
She defeated Dawn Sum 4d from Singapore in the final match. Congratulations!
This is the very first time a European player wins this event!
It means that next year, Rita shall be the 8th player of the professional SENKO Cup, thus playing with the top players of Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan! This is super exciting!!
Regarding the other games, well, all our girls won the first game, unfortunately Olesia lost the semi-final against Dawn Sum, and Manja was facing Rita in the other semifinal, so one of them was sadly forced to lose.
We gathered a few kifus and photos thanks to the JIGS team (Frantisek Caha and Manja Marz).
Let's try to reconstitute the event.
As we add some SGF (don't mind the indicated level in these), please go to the round you wish to see directly by clicking on it, otherwise you may have to scroll a little and may hurt your fingers and not be able to smash stones on boards anymore.
Round 1
Olesia Malko 4d 1 - 0 Yan Ying Tan 3d
Manja Marz 4d 1 - 0 Seowoo Wang 5d
Amy Song 5d 0 - 1 Dawn Sum 4d
Rita Pocsai 5d 1 - 0 Paramita Sutheerat 4d
Semi-finals
Olesia Malko 4d 0 - 1 Dawn Sum 4d
Rita Pocsai 5d 1 - 0 Manja Marz 4d
Final
Rita Pocsai 5d 1 - 0 Dawn Sum 4d
Round 1
In the first round, Olesia was playing with the Malaysian representative Yan Ying Tan 3d. She won.Meanwhile, Manja was playing with the US representative Seowoo Wang 5d, she also won. And Finaly, while Amy Song 5d from Australia was defeated by Dawn Sum 4d from Singapore, Rita won to the Thailand player Paramita Sutheerat 4d.
Semi Finals
In the semi final, all our Europeans were still there, but Rita and Manja played each other, and sadly, Olesia played a difficult sequence in the beginning of the game with Dawn Sum, leading to a hard fight, and she lost.
The Final
Rita played very good and won against Dawn!!!!!! Congrats!!
So now, what's next? Obviously, the European Women Go Championship 2025, planned in Czechia next autumn!
