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...

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...

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...

German Women Championship 2017

By Tony Claasen | News | 07.10.2017 18:45

The women's championship also gave us a new champion, Maike Wilms.
We have for you the results, a review of the deciding game, and an interview with the new champion herself.  Read more...

German Championship 2017

By Tony Claasen | News | 07.10.2017 15:17

This year's final was played over the course of 4 days from the 30th of September until the 4th of October 2017.
Also included is an interview with the new champion Jonas Welticke 6D from Bonn.  Read more...

Announcement: 25 Years EGCC Anniversary Go Tournament

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 20.09.2017 16:22

In 1992, the European Go Cultural Centre (EGCC) was founded in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, with the financial aid of Kaoru Iwamoto 9p and the Nihon Ki-in.

In 2017, the EGCC celebrates its 25th anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, the centre organises a special Anniversary Go Tournament in the weekend of 21-22 October!   Read more...

How was the EGC?

By Marc Oliver Rieger | News | 09.09.2017 17:58 | Comments: 5

To know what participants liked (and didn’t like) about this year’s European Go Congress, we conducted a little survey, on which around 90 people participated.

We now know that the congress was really well received! Nearly half (43%) of the participants who had already taken part in other European Go Congress thought that this year's was the best! Overall grade for this: 1.5 (1=very good, 2=good, 3=not so good, 4=bad).  Read more...

The European Go Congress - Highlights of the second week

By Yue Li | News | 09.08.2017 17:53 | Comments: 1

Following the first week, ruthless battles on go boards and the feast of friendship amongst hundreds of go enthusiasts continued to occupy the peaceful mountain village of Oberhof. As the Open European Championship entered its “yose” stage, numerous exciting side events continued to take place and brought us many exciting games.  Read more...