On the weekend of 04-05 March, The Irish Confucius Cup was held in Dublin, Ireland. Tournaments in Go, Chinese Chess and Chess were combined together to make this big
Therefore, the tournament attracted not only a lot of top European professional and amateur players, but also special guests Guo Juan 5p and professional players from China, Mr. Yu Ping 2p, Mr. Chen Rui 5p.
The Go tournament was part of the European Grand Prix Level B event and consisted of 5 rounds. The thinking time was 60 minutes plus 5x30 byo-yomi. Altogether, 47 players (from 15 countries) participated in the main tournament, eight of them were 6 dan and above.
The top Go board from each round was broadcasted on the OGS server (user’s name: IGABroadcast) as well as on KGS (user’s name: Javaness) and a video stream was also available.
The top five players were rewarded with cash prizes of 1000€, 400€, 300€, 200€ and 100€.
Full results are available here.