The 18th International Go-Tournament "Go to Innovation"

By Pavol Lisy | News | 15.11.2015 21:22 | Comments: 1

The 18th International Go-Tournament "Go to Innovation" was held this week-end (November 13-15) in Berlin, Germany. Although the tournament is very interesting for its special rules and big prizes, the number of players was relatively small in comparasion with previous years.   Read more...

The 2nd Zhu Gang Cup in Guangzhou

By Pavol Lisy | International | 07.11.2015 13:04

The second Jin LONG CHENG Cup World Team Go Championship (Zhu Gang Cup) will be held from the 15th of December until the 23rd of December 2015. The venue will be Bai Yun Hotel, Guangzhou, China.
The registration is open for every country. Each country can nominate one team that consists of three players. Chinese rules are applied for the competition. The total amount of prizes will be 5.000.000 RMB. The registration is until 30th of November.  Read more...

XXI Japanese Ambassador Cup in Russia and a press conference

By Pavol Lisy | News | 31.10.2015 13:53 | Comments: 1

XXI Japanese Ambassador Cup in Russia, the biggest and the oldest Russian tournament, was held this weekend (from 24th to 25th October) in Moscow. The playing hall with a capacity of 160 players seemed to be too small for such a big number of interested players.
2 days before the tournament started, a big press conference was held at the Russia Today INA, where many big names took part.  Read more...

12th Sankei Tournament and exchange matches

By Viktor Lin | International | 27.10.2015 18:59 | Comments: 1

The Sankei Tournament, sponsored by Sankei newspaper, is held annually by Kansai Ki-in in Osaka. Pros and amateurs compete in separate preliminaries to qualify to the main tournament.

At last year's Sankei Tournament, the two EGF pros who participated caused an uproar in the preliminaries...  Read more...

EGF Academy

By Viktor Lin | News | 23.10.2015 14:56

The EGF Academy is an initiative that started in spring 2015, made possible by a cooperation between the EGF, CEGO and Ge Yuhong Go Academy.   Read more...

The 2nd Xian Tournament

By Pavol Lisy | International | 08.10.2015 15:34 | Comments: 5

The 2nd Qinling Mountains Cup Silk Road International City Weiqi Tournament will start tomorrow! The tournament is held in Xi'an, China from October 9th till October 11th 2015.
Today, 20 representatives from Europe, our president Martin Stiassny and 19 players have attended the opening ceremony of the 2nd edition of this tournament. Together,players from 21 cities from 13 countries will participate in this team competition.  Read more...

French Championship 2015 + Lyon tournament

News | 07.10.2015 15:59

The final stage of the French Championship awards the honor of the best French player in 2015, as well as the qualification of the World Amateur Championship the next year. It therefore gathered many of the strongest French players to Lyon.  Read more...

Round 1 of the 6th PGETC

By Pavol Lisy | News | 28.09.2015 16:08

Round 1 of the 6th PGETC
The 6th Pandanet Go European Team Championship has started in September 2015. In this EGF-tournament 34 countries/teams fight for their placements in Leagues A,B,C. The best 4 teams from League A qualify for the Finals of the PGETC that will be held during the EGC in St. Petersburg. The games are played on internet on Pandanet-IGS in the EuropeanTeamChamp room generally Tuesday evenings (20:00 CET).   Read more...

European Student Championship 2015

By Viktor Lin | International | 21.09.2015 13:47

The European Student Go Championship took place in the Confucius Institute in Cluj Napoca, Romania, from 18 to 20 September 2015.

There were 14 participants from 8 countries, fighting for 1 spot of financial support to go to the World Collegiate Championship in Toronto, and one of the 4 spots to represent Europe in the 2nd World Student Pair Go Championship in Tokyo.   Read more...