Czech Go Baron 2017

News | 02.12.2017 8:53

The most prestigious title tournament in Czech Go, the Go Baron, was held in the last weekend of November, 24-26. The top Czech players of today and of yesteryear were invited for the preliminary tournament. Only 12 players have the possibility to challenge for the Go Baron title. The tournament is generously sponsored by its founder and director Ing. Josef Němec. The prize pool is three gold ounces, i.e. more than 3500€, based on the current price of gold.  Read more...

8th Qionglong Cup

By Tony Claasen | International | 26.11.2017 1:08

8th Bingsheng Cup or 8th Qionglong Cup in Suzhou/China
Manja Marz from Germany represented Europe in this tournament.  Read more...

New record set at the Russian Championship 2017!

By Viktor Lin | News | 20.11.2017 23:40 | Comments: 1

The Russian Championship was held from 13 to 18 November 2017 in St. Petersburg, in the familiar Azimut Hotel that also hosted, amongst others, the EGC 2016. The favourite, Ilja Shikshin 1p, won the tournament, albeit not without difficulties.  Read more...

Survey about European Go News

News | 20.11.2017 11:11

We published news on this webpage now for two years. How do you like it so far? You can fill out the survey to tell us bit how and what you like best and what is not so good or missing. Main topics are frequency of news, type of content and also some related projects like the yearbook we did for 2016.

Please take 5 minutes and let us know how good we are! Thx.  Read more...

The French Championship 2017, an interview with Benjamin Dréan Guénaïzia the champion of 2017

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 06.11.2017 13:55

An interview with Benjamin Dréan Guénaïzia, telling us a little about himself and giving us a small insight of his impression of this years championship.  Read more...

Shanglü Cup 2017

By Johannes Obenaus | International | 05.11.2017 9:02

The Shanglü Cup is China’s biggest amateur tournament. It is hosted by the Hangzhou Qiyuan, and held in their huge 34 floor building, which combines a go school with a hotel. The attractive prize pool of roughly 35,000 € gathered 277 players together from 27th of October to 1st of November.  Read more...

Seong-jin Kim dominates EGCC Anniversary Tournament

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 01.11.2017 0:09 | Comments: 1

From Friday 20 to Sunday 22 October the European Go Cultural Centre in Amstelveen organised several events in celebration of their 25th anniversary. One of those events was the EGCC Anniversary Tournament, which was dominated by German resident Seong-jin Kim 8d. In a field of 87 players from 15 different countries, of which no less than 38 were dan players, Korean-born Kim defeated all opposition. Second place was claimed by Artem Kachanovskyi 1p and third place went to Lukáš Podpěra 7d.  Read more...

14th Sankei Cup and Exchange Matches

By Viktor Lin | International | 31.10.2017 16:21 | Comments: 1

Once again, the Kansai Ki-in has invited EGF pros to participate at the Sankei Cup in Japan. This year, Europe was represented by Ilya Shikshin 1p and Andrii Kravets 1p, whereas the AGA sent Eric Lui 1p.  Read more...

Interview with Michiel Eijkhout, author of the book Close Encounter with the Middle Game

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 27.10.2017 18:50 | Comments: 1

In May 2016 Close Encounters with the Middle Game, written by Michiel Eijkhout, 6 dan appeared at Kiseido publishing company as the 10th and last part in the Mastering the Basics Series (K80). The book consists of 32 in-depth analyses of the same number of propositions, yes you guessed it correctly, from 32 professional games.  Read more...