1st Ellie Cup in Grenoble

By Viktor Lin | News | 27.02.2017 1:12 | Comments: 1

Accompanying the European Youth Go Championship 2017 in Grenoble, the TIGGRE (Tournoi International de Go Grenoble) was held simultaneously from 18 to 19 February, also known as the 1st edition of the Ellie Cup. This tournament was sponsored by Hwang In-seong and the European Yonguseng Dojang and named after his newborn daughter.  Read more...

The 22nd European Youth Go Championship in Grenoble

By Dominique Cornuejols | News | 22.02.2017 17:14 | Comments: 2

With 220 children coming from 18 different countries and more than 150 parents and team supporters, the EYGC was already in itself a huge event. But the addition of the International Grenoble Tournament (TIGGRE – Ellie Cup), which also attracted 80 participants, the presence of go professionals (Hayashi Sensei 6P coming from Japan, Catalin Taranu 5P, Ilya Shikshin 1P and Mateusz Surma 1P), of very strong Korean players (In-seong Hwang, Chi-min Oh, Seong-jin Kim) and of our invited guest Yumi Hotta, scenarist of the manga Hikaru no Go, transformed this event into quite an exceptional gathering.  Read more...

Stanislaw Frejlak unbeaten in Olomouc just after Training in China

By Pavol Lisy | News | 02.02.2017 21:48

The Olomouc International Tournament 2017 was held on the weekend of 27th-28th January in Olomouc, Czech Republic. The pleasant venue and great prize fund attracted 97 players from 9 countries. Eight players, who were 5 dan or stronger, from Czechia, Austria, Hungary and Poland participated in the tournament, which made it a pretty big competition.  Read more...

Dutch Championships 2017: Two stars. Ten winners. Many surprises.

By Marika Dubiel | News | 01.02.2017 10:37 | Comments: 5

Ten players received money prizes after the finals of the Dutch Championship. The Dutch champion was undefeated. The female champion is still unknown. Find the story, the photos and the games from the last weekend in this report.  Read more...

EGF Pros vs Blackie on Tygem

By Pavol Lisy | News | 03.01.2017 18:06 | Comments: 10

In order to celebrate the upcoming new TYGEM mobile app this February and the new desktop client this July, TYGEM is pleased to announce a historical event: a competition between Kim Seung-Jun and EGF Pros!  Read more...

The 43rd London Open Go Congress

By Marika Dubiel | News | 01.01.2017 14:05

Not only the year 2016 ended yesterday, but also the 43rd London Open Go Congress. This article highlights the interesting facts and results from the last days of 2016 in London.  Read more...

Next european go congress will be in Oberhof, Germany

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 21.12.2016 22:10 | Comments: 21

After the organizers of both proposed locations got together and decided to give more time for the selection of the host of the EGC 2017 the board of the EGF stepped back from it's decision to give it to Sochi. The member consultation was done in a short just one week time from 10 to 19 December.  Read more...

Member consultation for next host of the European go congress

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 10.12.2016 15:12 | Comments: 16

Both organiser teams improved their proposals in order to have a fair objective selection of the next congress place in 2017. Members can cast their vote from 10th to 19th December by email to the EGF secretary. Each country's vote will be weighted as it is done in the general assembly, small countries have 1 vote, countries with more members up to 4 votes.  Read more...

New vote for selecting the host of the 2017 congress

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 04.12.2016 18:08 | Comments: 56

The feedback for the decision to give the congress to last year's organiser to hold it in Sochi in 2017 was quite a bit flooding the comment section here on the EGF webpage but of course not only here the decision was widely discussed! Now the organising teams of the russian and german go federation came together with the EGF president to find a solution to the difficult situation.  Read more...