An interview with Lukáš Podpěra

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 20.04.2021 10:18 | Comments: 1

This interview with Lukáš Podpěra was planned for 2 sessions after we had a small discussion about playing online.

Focus on yourself and be honest in your game and the plans you set.
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European Go Journal: New Project Starts

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 05.03.2021 14:40 | Comments: 14

An announcement of the European Go Journal - a new project  Read more...

Spanish translation completed for the Multilingual Go book Project

By H. Kapolos | Articles | 20.02.2021 20:38

Another completed translation of the Multilingual Go project's book, joins the already existing English, French and Greek versions. This time it was the Spanish language's turn, which is another step in the project's goal of making Go content more accessible to new players, in their native language.  Read more...

Special General Meeting January 2021

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 06.02.2021 20:07

Due to the uncertainity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic many of the administrative and planning tasks of the EGF couldn't be handled at the usual Annual Meeting in July 2020. Several countries couldn't vote at that meeting as they had lost their status as a developing country, they would have needed to pay 200 € instead of the reduced fee of 50€.   Read more...

Take part in the 1st International „End Polio Now“ Go Tournament!

By Christoph Klawe | News | 20.12.2020 18:45 | Comments: 1

Sure, there are more important problems in life than Go, but sometimes Go can help at least a little bit to solve these issues, too. One such issue is poliomyelitis („polio“). This terrible virus disease used to be very frequent. It affects mostly children, destroys nerve centers and often leads to severe and lasting handicap or even death. Poliomyelitis can be effectively prevented by a well explored and safe vaccination. Thanks to this, the number of new cases per year went down from 350,000 in 1988 to less than 100 in 2019. Now, polio exists in only two countries of the world, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Read more...

Interview with Ilya Shikshin, European Champion 2020

By Artem Kachanovskyi | Interviews | 05.11.2020 22:47 | Comments: 2

An interview with Ilya Shikshin 3p (Russia) who has just won the 2020 European Championship  Read more...

2020 European online Championship

By Jean-Yves Papazoglou | News | 12.10.2020 20:21 | Comments: 2

Every year during our European go congress (EGC), the European go championship (EC) is organised.

Due to the COVID19 pandemic the 2020 EGC couldn't take place in Ukraine. Hence, the European go championship was cancelled, and we lost our funding for its prizes.  Read more...

Recent Go News: Summer and first half of Autumn

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 09.10.2020 20:58

News Round-Up about the biggest recent Go events in Europe  Read more...

Junior Match between China and the UK

International | 09.09.2020 9:52 | Comments: 1

An international match was played between teams from UK and China. The UK team was drawn from the national youth squad, which includes players up to age 19. The team from China was drawn from the pupils of Li Ang, a professional 3-dan. Their ages ranged from 6 to 10 years old. The match was played with the same system as that of the famous Super Go contests - the winner plays on.   Read more...