11th Strasbourg international go tournament

By Tony Claasen | News | 18.05.2019 17:28

The 11th Strasbourg international go tournamentan event during the weekend next to the pro qualification 2019.  Read more...

5th Pro qualification 2019 - Quarter- and Semi-finals

By Tony Claasen | News | 18.05.2019 9:57

We have now entered the stage of single KO with only eight players left.  Read more...

5th Pro qualification 2019 - Round 2 and 3

By Tony Claasen | News | 17.05.2019 11:03 | Comments: 2

16 Players play a double KO Tournament in Strasbourg to decide the next European EGF Professional.  Read more...

5th Pro qualification 2019 - Round 1

By Tony Claasen | News | 16.05.2019 16:24

16 Players play a double KO Tournament in Strasbourg to decide the next European EGF Professional  Read more...

Expanding New Horizons on EGF Twitch

By Xiaocheng-Stephen Hu | News | 14.05.2019 17:13 | Comments: 4

Greetings everyone! Today, we are excited to make a few announcements on the official EGF Twitch channel. As you may have seen or heard before, we have been producing live game commentaries from major European Go events since October 2018. Today, as we reach 5 million views and 5.8k followers, we look forward to continue developing the channel as a rising hub for top-quality Go content.  Read more...

Yike Cup, The 5th European Go Grand Slam Tournament

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 04.05.2019 21:00 | Comments: 2

The 5th European Go Grand Slam Tournament, also called Yike Cup, was held 25th - 28th April in Berlin, Germany.
For those who are not familiar with the Grand Slam, let me explain in a few words what it is. Grand Slam is the most prestigious tournament in Europe with the winner's prize € 10,000. 12 selected players are qualified to participate. All EGF professionals are automatically qualified. For the rest of the players there are several ways to join, including a qualification tournament. Grand Slam is the vital part of the European Grand Prix and the European Professional system.  Read more...

Europe 2-0 up in Transatlantic Showdown

By Kim Ouweleen | International | 15.04.2019 18:06 | Comments: 3

Mateusz Surma 2p has won the first two games of the Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship, defeating Andy Liu 1p and Calvin Sun 1p of the United States. Surma remains the person to beat and will face Gansheng Shi 1p next, on Sunday 21st of April, 20:00 Central European Time.  Read more...

World Women Team Conquest

Interviews | 11.04.2019 11:09

An interview with Camille Lévêque on the new international initiative called World Women Team Conquest.  Read more...

Fan Hui 2p guest of honour during Amsterdam Go Tournament

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 10.04.2019 16:16

Great news for the participants of the 48th Amsterdam International Go Tournament (AIGT)! DeepMind ambassador Fan Hui 2p will be present at the event and will present a lecture about AlphaGo. The AIGT is an EGF Bonus Point Tournament (level B) and will take place from 30th of May until 2nd of June 2019. The tournament holds a total prize money of €2125.  Read more...