60th European Go Congress Ends in St Petersburg

By Tony Atkins | News | 06.08.2016 20:14

The 60th European Go Congress closed in St Petersburg with the closing cermony on Saturday 6th August, just after the end of the European Open. Of the 597 players in this Kim Young-Sam, 7d Korea, was the best taking the Open title on tie break.  Read more...

Annual General Meeting 2016, some Updates

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 01.08.2016 18:49

Like last year 22 countries sent a representative to the assembly. With different numbers of votes for each country, the majority was reached at 26 votes. Some countries have only 1 vote because of a reduced membership fee, most countries have 2 votes and the bigger countries like Russia, Germany, France and Holland have 4.  Read more...

Ilya Shikshin is 60th European Champion

By Tony Atkins | News | 01.08.2016 11:05 | Comments: 1

Ilya Shikshin became the 60th European Champion by beating Ali Jabarin in the final at the EGC in St Petersburg.  Read more...

60th European Go Congress in Saint Petersburg

By Tony Atkins | News | 25.07.2016 13:05

The 60th European Go Congress got under way on 23rd July in Saint Petersburg. 456 players took part in round one.  Read more...

Ukraine win the Pandanet Go European Team Championship

By Tony Atkins | News | 25.07.2016 12:54

Pandanet Go European Team Championship, with over-the-board finals played at the European Go Congress in St Petersburg, Russia, was won by Ukraine.  Read more...

Merlijn Kuin to represent the Netherlands at KPMC 2016

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 04.07.2016 13:50

Merlijn Kuin 6d qualified to represent the Netherlands at the Korean Prime Minister's Cup that will take place in Buan from 3-9 September 2016.
Kuin defeated Geert Groenen 6d in the finals of the Dutch elimination tournament that took place on the 2nd of July in the European Go Cultural Center in Amstelveen.  Read more...

Results from the EGF-survey at the last congress in Liberec

By Marc Oliver Rieger | News | 12.06.2016 11:56

At the European Go Congress 2015 in Liberec, together with Prof. Mei Wang (WHU, Otto-Beisheim-School of Management, Germany), I conducted a survey among the participants. Here, I would like to summarize the main results  Read more...

Google DeepMind announced the non profit recipients of the $1 million prize fund today!

By Pavol Lisy | News | 06.06.2016 14:35

Google DeepMind announced the non profit recipients of the $1 million prize fund from the AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol tournament today.
The fund will be split between UNICEF UK, Raspberry Pi/Code Club, the American Go Association, the European Go Federation and the Korean Baduk (Go) Association.  Read more...

The biggest simultaneous Go game in Europe

By Pavol Lisy | News | 01.06.2016 16:20

On May 21th a great record was made in St. Petersburg – more than 200 people played Go in the city center. This day, the simultaneous games took place: 27 strongest Go players from all over country were fighting with 191 participants.   Read more...