Artem Kachanovskyi from Ukraine made it to be the 5th EGF Professional and the only one certified by EGF in 2016. Artem won all his 5 games in the
3rd European Professional Qualification against Zhao Pei, Dmitrij Surin, Tanguy Le Calve, Cornel Burzo and Andrii Kravets.
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Artem will become 1 dan Professional officially on 1st of April 2016. There will be a small ceremony at the Grand Slam in Berlin at end of April. Artem, as an EGF Professional now, is automatically qualified for
Grand Slam as all other EGF Professionals.
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Artem faced his long time rival, Andrii Kravets from Ukraine, in the finals. He won the
game by 7,5 as Black.
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Congratulations for Artem!
In 2017, EGF will certify 1 professional Go player again. The qualification tournament should take place arround March, EGF is looking for a host.
Photos by Harry van der Krogt