Grand Slam Qualification

By Pavol Lisy | Articles | 20.03.2019 21:38

At the end of last week, many strong players from all across Europe came to Bratislava, Slovakia to attend two big competitions. The first one, the Grand Slam Qualification, was held on Thursday and Friday (the 14th to 15th March).  Read more...

The Future of Go in the West

By Daniel Jones | Articles | 17.03.2019 9:35 | Comments: 2

The ancient game of Go came to the West in the form of a description by Thomas Hyde in the latter parts of the 16th Century. Firstly, in the form of a letter and then a publication called, De Ludis Orientalibus. However, the game has taken a very long time to develop and spread around the Western world and indeed Europe.   Read more...

European Professional Championship 2019

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 16.03.2019 21:48

A review of the European Professional Championship 2019 and a short description of JIGS  Read more...

Interview with Dutch champion Geert Groenen

By Kim Ouweleen | Interviews | 24.02.2019 20:14

The 2019 Dutch Go Championships took place in the weekends of 12-13th and 26-27th of January. Seven rounds were played to decide the winner. In the final, Geert Groenen 5 dan defeated Alexander Eerbeek 5 dan and secured his second title as Dutch champion. Yvonne Roelofs 4 kyu became Dutch women's champion.  Read more...

European Grand Prix Finale 2018

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 03.02.2019 10:20 | Comments: 1

A review of the European Grand Prix Finale 2018 and a description of the European Grand Prix system  Read more...

The first year of the professional promotion system in Europe

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 29.12.2018 20:52 | Comments: 8

An overview of the professional promotion system in Europe and its first year of operation  Read more...

Report on CEGO academic program (4) - photo gallery + China Europe exchange tournament

By Gabriel Wagner | International | 29.12.2018 8:48

It has been a while since my last report about our training.
By now, studying at the school became a routine, I would say we settled in very well. Also, it seems that the school got more used to us and the students realised that even though we are Europeans, we are also just normal people.
I decided to give you an overview over the last 2 months in the form of a photo gallery:  Read more...

The multilingual Go book's journey has begun

By H. Kapolos | News | 26.12.2018 14:11

At the beginning of December, the multilingual Go book project was launched!
The goal of the project is to create a Go book that will be translated to as many languages as possible, in order to provide an additional way to promote and spread Go in countries that do not have a Go tradition and their native language is not English.
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Dutch Pair Go Championship 2018

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 19.12.2018 9:05 | Comments: 1

On Saturday 8 December the national Pair Go Championship of the Netherlands took place in the European Go Cultural Centre. A total of eleven pairs fought for the title of Dutch pair go champions.
Yvonne Roelofs (4 kyu) and Michiel Eijkhout (5 dan) won all four matches and defended their title of 2017.  Read more...