6th European Pro Qualification 2021

By Tony Claasen | News | 21.10.2021 0:24 | Comments: 2

Brief impressions of the tournament in Leksand, accompanied by a short interview with Stanislaw Frejlak.

16 players played a KO (best of 3 in every round) to decide who would be the next European Professional go player.

All games were played face to face in Leksand, and some have been broadcast on KGS with commentary on Twitch.  Read more...

A new platform for Go teachers and Go students

By Mateusz Surma | News | 20.10.2021 23:06 | Comments: 2

Announcement of a new platform for Go teachers and Go students: Polgote.com - The Marketplace of Online Go Lessons  Read more...

European Go Journal: Progress Report and Announcement of Website

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 25.09.2021 21:31 | Comments: 3

European Go Journal highlights and website launch  Read more...

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By Antoine Fenech | News | 22.09.2021 10:07 | Comments: 1

3 in a row for France, winning the European Team Championship for the third time.  Read more...

Dina Burdakova 5d Wins European Women’s Go Championship

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 11.09.2021 1:40 | Comments: 1

A brief report about the European Women's Go Championship 2021 accompanied by an interview with the winner - Dina Burdakova 5d  Read more...

Annual General Meeting 2021, some Updates

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 07.08.2021 10:09 | Comments: 2

In 2021 the european congress was again canceled, and so an in person meeting was not possible. Thus all country representatives had instead to sit in front of a camera! 26 of the 37 countries joined the online meeting. Contrary to the last two meetings we could finally agree on a decision for a new membership fee system, and the election for the two board members for the Iwamoto European Foundation IEF also happened this time.  Read more...

European Go Journal: New Project Starts

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 05.03.2021 14:40 | Comments: 14

An announcement of the European Go Journal - a new project  Read more...

Special General Meeting January 2021

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 06.02.2021 20:07

Due to the uncertainity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic many of the administrative and planning tasks of the EGF couldn't be handled at the usual Annual Meeting in July 2020. Several countries couldn't vote at that meeting as they had lost their status as a developing country, they would have needed to pay 200 € instead of the reduced fee of 50€.   Read more...

Take part in the 1st International „End Polio Now“ Go Tournament!

By Christoph Klawe | News | 20.12.2020 18:45 | Comments: 1

Sure, there are more important problems in life than Go, but sometimes Go can help at least a little bit to solve these issues, too. One such issue is poliomyelitis („polio“). This terrible virus disease used to be very frequent. It affects mostly children, destroys nerve centers and often leads to severe and lasting handicap or even death. Poliomyelitis can be effectively prevented by a well explored and safe vaccination. Thanks to this, the number of new cases per year went down from 350,000 in 1988 to less than 100 in 2019. Now, polio exists in only two countries of the world, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Read more...