Interview with Dutch champion Geert Groenen

By Kim Ouweleen | Interviews | 24.02.2019 20:14

The 2019 Dutch Go Championships took place in the weekends of 12-13th and 26-27th of January. Seven rounds were played to decide the winner. In the final, Geert Groenen 5 dan defeated Alexander Eerbeek 5 dan and secured his second title as Dutch champion. Yvonne Roelofs 4 kyu became Dutch women's champion.  Read more...

Visiting the future EGF professionals in Beijing

By Marc Oliver Rieger | Interviews | 03.11.2018 14:04

If you're on a business trip in Beijing and have some free time, what's on the sightseeing program? Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace and No. 18 Beijing Middle School. The latter may not be the classic address for Chinese tourists, but this is exactly where six selected people from Europe stay every year as part of the CEGO programme to (maybe?) become professionals at some point in the future. This year's participants: Stanislaw Freijlak from Poland, Oscar Vazquez from Spain, Anton Chernykh from Russia, Sinan Djepov from Bulgaria, Dominik Boviz from Hungary and Gabriel Wagner from Germany. As a correspondent for the EGF, Gabriel also regularly writes articles here about living and learning in China, but maybe a neutral investigative journalist like me will uncover secrets about their stay?  Read more...

Meeting Cho Hye-yeon 9p in Seoul

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 12.07.2018 16:02

An interview with one of the strongest professional female go players of today.
Cho Hye-yeon is one of only five Females holding the 9p rank.  Read more...

Gian-Carlo Pascutto - The man behind LeelaZero

Interviews | 24.05.2018 21:44 | Comments: 7

An interview with Gian-Carlo Pascutto the author of LeelaZero, the popular professional level program.  Read more...

Dutch Go Championships 2018

By Kim Ouweleen | Interviews | 15.02.2018 18:15

The Dutch Go Championships 2018 took place during the two weekends of 13-14 and 27-28 January in the European Go Cultural Centre in Amstelveen. A new championship system was implemented, making it open to any Dutch player. After a period of 37 years, Rob van Zeijst 7d repeated his victory of 1981 and claimed his second Dutch title. Marika Dubiel 2d became Dutch Women's champion for the eighth time in a row.  Read more...

The French Championship 2017, an interview with Benjamin Dréan Guénaïzia the champion of 2017

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 06.11.2017 13:55

An interview with Benjamin Dréan Guénaïzia, telling us a little about himself and giving us a small insight of his impression of this years championship.  Read more...

Interview with Michiel Eijkhout, author of the book Close Encounter with the Middle Game

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 27.10.2017 18:50 | Comments: 1

In May 2016 Close Encounters with the Middle Game, written by Michiel Eijkhout, 6 dan appeared at Kiseido publishing company as the 10th and last part in the Mastering the Basics Series (K80). The book consists of 32 in-depth analyses of the same number of propositions, yes you guessed it correctly, from 32 professional games.  Read more...

Interview with Kim Ouweleen, author of the 2016 EGF Yearbook

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 29.09.2017 18:31 | Comments: 2

For the first time in the history of European Go, the EGF has published a yearbook. It was officially released at the European Go Congress in Oberhof and was praised ever since. We caught up with the author, Kim Ouweleen 4d from the Netherlands, in an interview.  Read more...

BIBA's view on computer go

By Kim Ouweleen | Interviews | 18.09.2016 19:00 | Comments: 2

In the article "AlphaGo and the future of go: interviews with top European players" we asked some of the best players in Europe how they experienced the historical AlphaGo matches. In this sequel, we talk more with Hungarian go player Diána Kőszegi 1p and the people she works with every day: the teachers and students of the international go school BIBA in Gunpo city, Korea.  Read more...